Isocol Rubbing Alcohol 345ml

Isocol is the Australian-made rubbing alcohol that has sat in medicine cabinets, garages and clinical bags for generations. It contains 64% isopropyl alcohol with water, and works as both a skin antiseptic and a hard-surface disinfectant - cleaning, drying and evaporating without leaving a residue. This is the 345mL bottle, the size most households buy.

Why Isocol is in so many Australian cabinets

The reason it does so many jobs is that alcohol at this strength both disinfects and evaporates clean. There is no oily residue to wipe off a benchtop, no film left on tweezers, and nothing to rinse away from a phone screen or a pair of glasses. That single property is why one bottle covers first aid, instrument hygiene and general cleaning rather than needing three products.

A point worth being exact about, because it is the most-asked question: Isocol is 64% isopropyl alcohol, not pure isopropanol and not the 70% preparation used in clinical skin-prep swabs. It is the same active, at its own concentration, in a ready-to-use bottle. If a procedure specifies 70% isopropyl, use a product labelled at that strength rather than assuming they are interchangeable.

It is a genuinely broad performer: cleaning minor cuts and grazes before dressing, sterilising tweezers, scissors and small instruments, skin prep before an injection or a blood-glucose test, tick and splinter removal, and lifting sticker residue, marker pen and adhesive from skin. It also handles benchtops, doorknobs, light switches, lenses and screens.

Key features

• 64% isopropyl alcohol with water
• Australian made
• Skin antiseptic and hard-surface disinfectant in one bottle
• Evaporates clean - no residue on skin, tools or screens
• Sterilises tweezers, scissors and small instruments
• Lifts sticker residue, marker pen and adhesive from skin
• 345mL bottle - the standard household size

Specifications

Common uses

Households keep it for splinters, tick removal and cleaning a graze before a plaster goes on. Anyone injecting or finger-prick testing uses it for skin prep. Workshops and garages use it for degreasing and lifting adhesive. And it has a long second life as the thing that cleans glasses, camera lenses and phone screens without smearing. If you want measured single-use skin prep rather than a bottle, 70% isopropyl alcohol wipes are the sachet form, and chlorhexidine 0.5% in alcohol 70% is the clinical antiseptic where a residual effect is wanted. Stocked with our first aid supplies.