Hand sanitizer: 11 labels checked

11 hand sanitizers from 9 brands on Open Beauty Facts, read one ingredient at a time. Below: how many pass each of the six checks, the ones that pass, which ingredients decide it, and the most scanned products.

4 with a photo · last checked 26 Aug 2026

Six checks across 11 hand sanitizers

Check	Yes	No	Not sure
Vegan hand sanitizers	0 (0%)	0	11
Fragrance-free hand sanitizers	5 (45%)	5	1
Paraben-free hand sanitizers	10 (91%)	0	1
Sulfate-free hand sanitizers	10 (91%)	0	1
Silicone-free hand sanitizers	10 (91%)	0	1
Alcohol-free hand sanitizers	7 (64%)	3	1

Yes means the ingredient list contains none of the ingredients that check looks for. Not sure on the vegan check means an ingredient can come from a plant or an animal and the label does not say which.

What decides it most often

Ingredients that turned a check to No in hand sanitizers, counted across the 11 most scanned lists.

Vegan hand sanitizers

None of the hand sanitizers we have read passes the vegan check yet.

All vegan products

Fragrance-free hand sanitizers

5 of 11 hand sanitizers pass the fragrance-free check. All of them:

All fragrance-free products

Paraben-free hand sanitizers

10 of 11 hand sanitizers pass the paraben-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All paraben-free products

Sulfate-free hand sanitizers

10 of 11 hand sanitizers pass the sulfate-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All sulfate-free products

Silicone-free hand sanitizers

10 of 11 hand sanitizers pass the silicone-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All silicone-free products

Alcohol-free hand sanitizers

7 of 11 hand sanitizers pass the alcohol-free check. All of them:

All alcohol-free products

Most scanned hand sanitizers

Data: Open Beauty Facts, community database, ODbL license. Categories come from the product name and the community tags, so a few products sit in the wrong group; the check itself reads only the ingredient list. No brand pays for a verdict.