If you have quantities of ingredients and aren’t sure if you can substitute them, you can send us an email and we’ll do our best to get back to you within 24 hours with advice from our experience and from our chemist. We are incredibly busy, not just producing sanitizer, but also sourcing the ingredients (alcohol is getting very hard to find, even for labs!) and fundraising for bottle (and other ingredient) purchases. Below, you’ll find our recipe and some pictures of our process. We set up an assembly line production system at Q Center’s mutual aid hub and started making gallons of hand sanitizer. Luckily we have a close contact with a chemist, and were able to check our math every time to ensure that everything we made was producing a final product of over 62% alcohol content.īy day 3, our chemist contact had secured us 15 gallons of lab-grade alcohol. Over the first few days we made many batches of hand sanitizer from ingredients gathered from people’s medicine (and liquor!) cabinets. Thus sparked days of gathering supplies from the community (by this time, stores had been sold out of sanitizer for weeks, and also the ingredients to make it). We realized that the need for hand sanitizer was so great, and that over the weekend we’d had so much fun “mixing down” the last of the commercial sanitizer and the rubbing alcohol we had in our clinic supplies in order to bottle it individually, that we looked into making more of it. The second day we opened it up more broadly to our wider networks, and were able to supply several direct-service groups as well as many individuals and community houses. The first day we targeted getting supplies to our network of trained medics so they could take care of themselves first, and therefore be prepared to help others. Our idea was to help our communities be prepared with cleaning supplies, hand sanitizer, gloves, OTC medications, thermometers, and other medical gear. We started with a two-day supply fair in mid-March, before the public was fully understanding what was happening. Primarily, we have been working on supply distribution. We’ve been preparing as a group for 12 years for moments like this, and we are doing all we can to participate in and expand mutual aid efforts in Portland. Rosehip is very proud to share the work we are doing to help our community, and especially it’s most vulnerable members, during this time of crisis. If you have money to help us cover some of these out-of-pocket expenses, please visit and share our Gofundme or push the button to donate directly We’ll start here with a few neat recipes we worked out as we went along in our manufacture. Moving forward, we will seek to update our website with a COVID-19 resources and projects, and ways to plug in.
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