No Purell? This Richland distillery is turning high-proof vodka into hand sanitizer

When Jim Batdorf tried to pick up hand sanitizer last week, he was greeted with bare shelves.

The rush on grocery stories and pharmacies since the first death caused by COVID-19 in Washington state wiped out stocks of disinfectants across the region.

Batdorf, a chemical engineer turned head distiller at Richland-based Solar Spirits, wanted to help in his own way to curb the spread of the disease.

So he put together a kit so people can make their own hand sanitizer.

“Keeping our hands clean is a key factor in the national fight against the spread of the coronavirus,” he said. “With our background in science and engineering, we wanted to do our part in the fight against the epidemic.”

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