What are you supposed to rub w/ rubbing alcohol? And what does it do?
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Uses for Rubbing Alcohol
In the definition of Rubbing Alcohol in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, this is what it says: "Rubbing Alcohol - NOUN: A mixture usually consisting of 70 percent isopropyl or absolute alcohol, applied externally to relieve muscle and joint pain."
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If you chose to use it, I would do so cautiously because it can cause harmful reactions. See the link to the right on toxicology.
We ususally use rubbing alcohol to sterilize things like thermometers.
It can also be used for cleaning your printer heads.
Rubbing alcohol can also be used after using RitAID for lice. It makes sure the lice are not there.
Useful for cleaning VCR heads that have become dirty when the magnetic coating on old VHS tapes disintegrates. If the heads are not cleaned, the residue damages any other tapes played in your VCR and the heads eventually (abrasive oxide). Use lint free cloth.
To clean the TFT LCD screens of notebook computers: removes the oily buildup from fingers and cigarette smoke and restores and tones the special coating on the screen (Dilute the rubbing alcohol 2:1 with distilled water then add 2,5ml apple cider vinegar per 100ml - completelt restores and cleans).
To cut sheets of safety-glass: score the glass with a diamond cutter then pour rubbing alcohol into the furrow and set light with a match - the heat melts the bonded substrate between the two sheets of glass and makes a clean straight break.
Rubbing Alchohol, used properly, can be used as a disinfectant. Hospitals and medical professionals use it often to wipe off their equipment, such as a stethoscope, that is used regularly and cannot easily be sterilized between uses. At home it is useful when someone is sick (or not), for example, take all areas where people use items constantly, such as doorknobs, telephones, kitchen cabinet handles, refrigerator, tv remote control and TOYS. Using a disposable towel or paper towels, cleanse the touchable items with rubbing alcohol, it usually kills GERMS and BACTERIA and keeps common areas A LOT cleaner, and generally will keep GERMS from spreading. It is particularly useful in bathroom areas. Naturally keep areas well ventilated. It is a quick and easy solution to disinfecting home or OFFICE. And it dries very quickly without leaving a smelly after odor (like bleach).
Use rubbing alcohol to help dry up a cold sore. Apply when the cold sore apears until it becomes dry and it will shorten the life and begin to fall off. Takes about a week instead of two.
To clean windows and other household appliances when mixed with baking soda and vinegar.
To get grease out of a carpet, apply rubbing alcohol and lightly rub in a circular motion with a clean rag until spot is gone. Always Check for colorfastness first!
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Rubbing alcohol disinfects your skin and if you are giving yourself a shot or something it's so that it doesn't get infected
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I carry it in a small spray bottle and use it to sanitize shopping carts, or use after using a public restroom or on the table at a restaurant. I use it to wipe down our seating area on the airplane too (pre 911 of course. I don't know if I could bring it now.) - any place that could have germs during flu and cold season.
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Rubbing alcohol is extremely useful to body piercists. In this wonderful age of single-use, individually packaged needles, rubbing alcohol still has a place in the shop. Here's a few that come to mind:
Rubbing down chairs/tables/countertops
Wiping tools to be later autoclaved - no dried blood
Cleansing area to be pierced before applying iodine
De-gritting autoclave
Cleaning jewelry that has been on display
Display glass/mirrors/registers
Yay rubbing alcohol. Beautiful stuff.
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If you have your ears pierced, it helps kill the germs and it doesnt sting or anything.
I always use it on places where there used to be stickers. It gets rid of stickiness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubbing_alcohol
Uses' Applied externally as a cooling, soothing application for bedridden patients and athletes. It is also widely used for cleansing the surgeon's hands and instruments and for disinfection of the skin prior to penetration of the skin by a hypodermic needle. As an antiseptic it is good against vegetative bacteria and fair against fungi and viruses. It is ineffective against spores. It is widely believed that 70% ethanol provides the greatest reduction in bacterial count; however, this is in error. Other concentrations may be more effective, but their rate of kill is slower. In order to reduce the skin bacterial count to 5% of normal, 70% ethanol must be left on the skin for at least 2 min. Ethanol is also a feeble anesthetic and a mild counterirritant. It is not potable (drinkable).
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scrapes and burns and stuff like dat and it cleans it Rubbing Alcohol is used to disenfect the skin. Here are
other uses for the product:
In the definition of Rubbing Alcohol in The American Heritage®
Dictionary of the English Language, this is what it says:
"Rubbing Alcohol - NOUN: A mixture usually consisting of 70
percent isopropyl or absolute alcohol, applied externally to
relieve muscle and joint pain."
It can also be used for cleaning your printer heads.
Rubbing alcohol can also be used after using RitAID for lice. It makes sure the lice are not there.
Useful for cleaning VCR heads that have become dirty when the magnetic coating on old VHS tapes disintegrates. If the heads are not cleaned, the residue damages any other tapes played in your VCR and the heads eventually (abrasive oxide). Use lint free cloth.
To clean the TFT LCD screens of notebook computers: removes the oily buildup from fingers and cigarette smoke and restores and tones the special coating on the screen (Dilute the rubbing alcohol 2:1 with distilled water then add 2,5ml apple cider vinegar per 100ml - completelt restores and cleans).
To cut sheets of safety-glass: score the glass with a diamond cutter then pour rubbing alcohol into the furrow and set light with a match - the heat melts the bonded substrate between the two sheets of glass and makes a clean straight break.
Rubbing Alchohol, used properly, can be used as a disinfectant. Hospitals and medical professionals use it often to wipe off their equipment, such as a stethoscope, that is used regularly and cannot easily be sterilized between uses. At home it is useful when someone is sick (or not), for example, take all areas where people use items constantly, such as doorknobs, telephones, kitchen cabinet handles, refrigerator, tv remote control and TOYS. Using a disposable towel or paper towels, cleanse the touchable items with rubbing alcohol, it usually kills GERMS and BACTERIA and keeps common areas A LOT cleaner, and generally will keep GERMS from spreading. It is particularly useful in bathroom areas. Naturally keep areas well ventilated. It is a quick and easy solution to disinfecting home or OFFICE. And it dries very quickly without leaving a smelly after odor (like bleach).
Use rubbing alcohol to help dry up a cold sore. Apply when the cold sore apears until it becomes dry and it will shorten the life and begin to fall off. Takes about a week instead of two.
To clean windows and other household appliances when mixed with baking soda and vinegar.
To get grease out of a carpet, apply rubbing alcohol and lightly rub in a circular motion with a clean rag until spot is gone. Always Check for colorfastness first!
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