The World Health Organization (WHO) offers a guide for the local production of recommended hand rub formulations. These formulations for hand sanitizer have been recommended by the WHO because of the following reasons:
• these formulations act quickly to kill a broad spectrum of microbes while at the same time minimizing the risk of generating any resistance to antimicrobial agents.
• these formulations can promote and increase improved compliance when it comes to hand hygiene because they make the process more convenient and faster.
• these formulations are suitable for usage in remote areas or areas with limited resources with a lack of accessibility to facilities for hand hygiene such as sinks, paper towels, clean water, etc.
• these formulations minimize the risks of adverse events due to the increased safety that comes with a higher and better tolerance and acceptability of these formulations over other products .
• these formulations increase the economic benefit to the area which uses them by reducing the costs annually regarding hand hygiene .
