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The owners experimented first with a recipe that called for ethanol, glycerol, aloe vera gel, lemongrass oil, and vitamin E oil. As they messed around with the recipe, they also applied for a license to produce the sanitizer. They were approved almost immediately by the federal government, which, honestly, is a sentence I thought I would never write.

“The federal government said the application typically takes three weeks for approval. We got approval in two days,” the distillery’s general manager, Jonathan Shair, told the ABC affiliate.