University Patents Method To Manufacture Hand Sanitizing Lotion with Prolonged Effectiveness

US Patent No. 11,547,654 B2 (Emmanuel D. Revellame, William E. Holmes); University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, has been awarded a patent for a method of manufacturing hand-sanitizing lotion. It entails heating deionized water in a vessel; mixing a waxy corn starch and at least one thickener to said deionized water and blending said deionized water, at least one thickener, and waxy corn starch to create a first mixture; heating soybean oil in a second vessel; adding at least one active ingredient, a skin protectant, and an anti-foam agent to said heated soybean oil and blending said heated soybean oil, said at least one active ingredient, said skin protectant, and said anti-foam agent to create a second mixture, wherein said at least one active ingredient comprises benzalkonium chloride; blending said second mixture and said first mixture; gelatinizing and emulsifying the resulting mixture simultaneously by passing said resulting mixture through an agitation and heating means selected from the group consisting of chaos mixing and steam injection;  successively adding a preservative, at least one antibacterial agent, and at least one skin soothing agent to said resulting mixture to create and blend a final mixture; and cooling the final mixture to room temperature.