The country store near me keeps a big bottle of hand sanitizer on the counter. One bottle smelled lovely, fruity, I enjoyed the way my hands smelled using it . The one they replaced it with is kinda stinky. Still use it when I leave the store, but it's a reminder that most of us do not scent shop hand sanitizers - we just buy it now as a utilitarian necessity.

I'll guess that someone came up with the idea of candy smelling sanitizer to make kids want to use it, make it fun. But its astounding such products ever got to market without adults, parents!, pointing out the obvious hazards. Scary stupid.

I agree it's not wise when using it for kids. Mine was made by a local distiller when it was so hard to find the usual brands. Every time I use it, I want a drink!

A pump bottle of fruity-smelling sanitizer, or one which smells like a mojito, is one thing, but I think it's the combination of candy smells and packaging that might be attractive to children which is ill advised.

Unscrupulous manufacturers using methanol in products are out to make money at any cost to us, so I shouldn't be surprised that they will try anything to sell hand sanitizer with packaging aimed at kids.

Unscrupulous manufacturers using methanol in products are out to make money at any cost to us, so I shouldn't be surprised that they will try anything to sell hand sanitizer with packaging aimed at kids.

My crystal ball sees class action lawsuits overwhelming unscrupulous manufacturers. And possible boycotts of all their products prior to going to court.

I believe scented hand sanitizers have been sold for years. I saw blurbs about it when my kids were in elementary school. They are having to remind everyone again.

I bought hand sanitizer in a liter bottle that appears to have come from a beverage alcohol distillery. I took the the extra step and wrote "Poison Do not Drink on it".

I have to admit that before the covid-19 crisis I hadn't bought hand sanitizer. I carried a purse-size container my sister put in my Christmas basket one year, and it lasted for years. I can understand floral, maybe mint, or other fresh scents--no one in my household has ever consumed my strawberry-scented shampoo, but cute little packages that smell like tootsie rolls is taking it too far, IMO.

Hand sanitizer has no business being accessible to children so young or untaught they would try to ingest it. It's no different than vitamins and medication that are fruit flavored or even done up to look like candy. Same with other cosmetics and household products. Whatever happened to parents taking responsibility for their children's safety , what comes into the house and how it is stored?

Simple solution. Don't buy the silly stuff. Use soap and water.

Our hand sanitizer is scented, but I don't know if it is supposed to be any recognizable scent. To me, it smells like a department store, which I think means a combination of cosmetics, perfumes, new shoes, and fabric sizing chemicals.

I have a bud who is in the distillery business and was making hand sanitizer during the shortage...said it smelled like your favorite vodka!

Hand sanitizer should not contain perfumes, perfumes cause contact dermatitis for many.

Except hand sanitizers contain alcohol and I believe that dries skin, no? There are a few extraneous ingredients in many of them to make them more attractive and or less damaging.

I checked the hand sanitizer I have in the car; it smells like alcohol--more like isopropyl than enthanol, or vodka. It's from DG, and doesn't seem to be drying. Before I put the bottle in the car, I used homemade alcohol wipes--just paper towels saturated with 70% isopropyl, which didn't seem to make my hands dry, either, but of course, I still don't go out if it's not necessary, and at home we use soap and water.

The link mdln posted has lots of fruity scents, and even some packaged as small toys--a unicorn, a cat, and a car, but I didn't see any candy-type packages or scents.