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Hand sanitizer kills some germs, but does nothing to solve the main problem of people touching germ infected objects then touching their nose or eyes. These are the main pathways pathogens use to get into your body and make you sick.
Having capsaicin, the ingredient in pepper spray mixed in to "remind"
you not to touch your face might seem extreme, but better to get a little red in the eyes from time to time than getting sick no?
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Baked. Current alcohol-based hand sanitizers
already burn the shit out of any membrane or cut
the user is unlucky enough to have come into
contact with. |
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I think the idea is that it will irritate long after the alcohol has evaporated. Capsaicin would be ideal; it's even conveniently alcohol soluble (although it will irritate the hands a little bit; alcohol seems to help capsaicin penetrate thicker, intact skin). |
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Alternatively, just attach your hands to your belt with a short lead. |
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How about hand sanitizer with your choice of irritants? For the more adventuresome types, you could offer some with urushiol... sure to be popular among the S&M crowd! Or, perhaps a version with cyanoacrylate for the practical jokers? No matter; I award you a bun, sir, for this hygienic perversion! [+] |
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For those craving alcohol enough to scavenge sanitizer (it's common), this is the poor mans Pepper Stolichnya. |
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/burn the shit out/
I like the image of a jug of hand sanitizer with an adjacent small wall mounted bunsen burner. The user applies, then flames his hands, shaking them extinguished. |
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Blood is a good sanitiser.... why not embed some blades in that soap. As you get used to cutting yourself up over time, the blades naturally become more revealed, and release more copious amounts of the purifying blood. |
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For people with any kind of allergies, hand sanitizers often already have added irritants. |
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Maybe you should rewrite it as chili soup... |
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Ohh, this substance made my fingers tingle for a week, after just slicing
to juice these bastards. |
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//just attach your hands to your belt with a short lead// -
actually a brilliant idea. I might try this for a day and see
how it goes. |
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I've just thought of a very useful application for this. I do a
lot of cell culture, where sterile conditions are maintained
inside a flow hood and hands are kept sterile inside nitrile
gloves which we periodically spray with 70% ethanol. It gets
tricky when a glove tears, it's not always obvious and you
can work for several minutes without knowing a filthy
contaminated portion of hand skin is exposed. If the ethanol
spray contained something you could quickly feel on the
skin, say menthol, then you'd notice earlier. |
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There you go B. 9 year old idea so it's public domain now. |
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Just name it after me. "Doctorremulac3's Hand Stinging
Germ Goo". |
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//name it after me. "Doctorremulac3's Hand Stinging Germ Goo".// |
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Do you find it awkward whenever you are asked for your full name? In formal situations do you prefer to be referred to as "Mr. Goo", or "Mr. Hand Stinging Germ Goo"? |
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//Just name it after me.// |
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Sure. After a little more thought, the ideal additive would
completely evaporate, like the 70% ethanol. I'm not sure
that's compatible for this particular application, because
it would then be available to re-dissolve in the cell
culture media, and, being biologically active, it might do
stuff to your cells. Quickly earning the name:
"Doctorremulac3's experimental artifact goo". I'll keep
thinking of candidate substances. |
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The concept remains good when you don't care about the
external environment so much. Say if you're cleaning up
some nasty contaminant and would appreciate a rapid
indicator. Maybe if radioactive surfaces were sprayed
down with pure capsaicin, you wouldn't have to tell
people to wash thoroughly if they accidentally
contaminate themselves. |
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