Don't toss your bottle of hand sanitizer just because it doesn't kill 100% of germs. Here's how sanitizer compares to soap and when best to use it.

Hand sanitizer expires after about 3 years. This is usually when it drops below 60% alcohol content, and it won't be as effective at killing germs.

Using hand sanitizer to keep germs at bay amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic? You may want to avoid the products that were recently added to a federal agency’s list over concerns they have ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded a warning about several hand sanitizer products that have been found to contain wood alcohol, which can potentially be deadly to ingest or absorb ...

People are getting sick and even dying after swallowing hand sanitizer, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. Four died and others have suffered impaired vision or seizures ...

More than a dozen kinds of hand sanitizer should be avoided because they may contain methanol, a toxic substance when absorbed through skin or ingested. The Food and Drug Administration says many of ...

Alcohol distillers that have reconfigured their operations to meet the country's unabating demand for hand sanitizer during the coronavirus outbreak are running into regulatory hurdles from the Trump ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- Hand sanitizer is important to keep around, but you might not want to keep it in your car on a hot day. That's because flammable liquids and direct sunlight can make it explode, ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s list of potentially toxic hand sanitizers grows daily and now includes a product made in the United States. Hand sanitizer made by Leiper’s Fork Distillery in ...

Two brands of hand sanitizer are being recalled by their manufacturers due to methanol, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The recalls come after the agency warned consumers against buying ...