Isopropyl vs ethanol for disinfection

Not sure myself. Planning to follow along with how this turns out.

Seems like a worthwhile notion. Grabbed a few for myself recently. Earlier on I would crease cloths to stuff them into the limited room around my pens. Everything should turn out alright unless the alcohol harms the plug.

Sounds good to me, but being broke made me wonder about soaking a cotton swab in alcohol instead. Would that work basically the same way and cost less?

Perhaps your web safeguards surpass mine yet online sources indicated isopropyl works a bit better at eliminating both gram negative and positive organisms including the usual examples than ethanol does. It also disappears a little more gradually or at similar speed based on strength level however each one needs enough moisture duration typically at seventy percent to break down proteins inside the microbes. Slow and steady comes out ahead. I finished my current swabs then moved to soaking plain cotton tips thoroughly using seventy percent isopropyl poured from a container.

Either one works okay here. Health organization recommendations see the two alcohols in that strength range as usable in place of each other on skin or container tops. I clean the spot and wait until it evaporates completely before inserting anything. I skip the toxic kind or the versions with additives. The pads made with the grain alcohol don't seem any worse, just another standard choice.