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Re: Best way to disinfect a mouthpiece?

Author: Hunter_100
Date: 2022-06-30 02:00

Denatured alcohol is poisonous. I would not use it on anything that touches your mouth. Rubbing alcohol (iso-propyl) is safer if you want to go that route (buy the medical stuff from a pharmacy not from a hardware store) but you should make sure not to ingest that either. As strange as it may sound, pure alcohols don't sanitize surfaces well. They evaporate too quickly from the surface to kill everything. That is why prepared solutions and gel hand sanitizers are always around 70% concentration.

There are a multitude of food safe sanitizers you can purchase. When I brew beer I use an iodine based sanitizer called iodiphor but I do not know if it works on the coronavirus. Also I have no idea if it would discolor mouthpieces.

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