Another cleanser among the top offenders was a Baby Yoda-themed bottle from Best Brands Consumer Products. Valisure found those big-name brands were safe.Īrtnaturals, which has more than 10,000 reviews on for various versions of its 8-ounce and 1-gallon hand sanitizer containers, had the highest benzene levels at 16 parts per million in one of the bottles Valisure tested. Food and Drug Administration allowed for liquid hand sanitizers to try to keep supply on shelves even as mainstays like Purell and Suave sold out. Twenty-one bottles from 15 different brands contained benzene levels over two parts per million, which is a temporary limit the U.S. Online pharmacy Valisure, which tests the products it sells for impurities, analyzed 260 hand sanitizer bottles from 168 brands and found 17% contained detectable levels of the known carcinogen benzene.
But sometimes when newcomers help fill a supply gap, standards droop. Hand sanitizers exploded in popularity a year ago as people rushed to protect themselves from coronavirus germs, making room for lesser-known brands to jump into the market.
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