Rubbing Alcohol

Isopropyl Alcohol 70% is mainly known as rubbing alcohol. If you haven’t heard of rubbing alcohol before you’ve probably walked passed it in the supermarket aisle known as Isocol. Rubbing alcohol can be used to clean makeup, disinfect wounds, kill mealybugs and many more uses.

Cleaning and disinfecting makeup brushes we recommend using 70% Isopropyl Alcohol. You can use rubbing alcohol to clean makeup brushes to kill the bacteria, which means fewer transfers of germs and you won’t see breakouts as you won’t be passing over germs as the rubbing alcohol will kill them.

You can use rubbing alcohol to disinfect wounds on the skin as the dilution makes it safer to use on the skin. You can also use Isopropyl Alcohol 70% to kill mealy bugs. The reason you would choose 70% over 100% when it comes to killing mealy bugs is because the higher moisture content in the rubbing alcohol means that it will stay on the bugs for longer, allowing it to work and kill the bugs.