What happens when you drink RUBBING ALCOHOL?

[@mattmurdock5424]

There was a guy who came to my school to give us a speech about the dangers of addiction. He was a former alcoholic and he said that when bars or liquor stores wouldn’t serve him he would go to a pharmacy and buy rubbing alcohol to drink. He said that he would immediatley throw it up and it would burn like nothing else, but he kept doing it. He had a horribly scratchy voice that still gives me chills.

[@davidfl4]

Well former alcoholic who did the same. I’d only take like half an inch worth whenever I’d run out of booze at home. God I want to vomit just thinking about it 😭so glad I’m not doing that anymore

[@Stripedspot]

@@davidfl4 damn. Glad you stopped.

[@AnonymousDumboOctopus]

I've known a lot of people in the AlAnon/NarAnon community who drank rubbing alcohol and even hand sanitizer when they started craving. It's sad

[@brodycallender7509]

thats the way to keep kids from doing that but instead we got this Dare shi

[@Just_a_Piano_]

@@brodycallender7509 waiting for tiktok to make another dumbass trend to get people killed. It honestly might even be a good thing, getting rid of people actually that fucking stupid is pretty helpful for the world

[@Xeidasx]

Damnit there goes my weekend plans

[@GSM92]

Damark rivers, street name bamboo

[@sfbs]

Just drink a whole bottle of delsym

[@GSM92]

@@sfbs robotrip

[@jaspreetsinghahuja3170]

Damn it. It could have been your last weekend.

[@tequon100]

I read it as Dam-Nit 😂

[@FauxFaFox]

What I'm getting from this is acetone is a cheap alternative to ethanol as you only need 1/3 and you get to stay drunk longer.

[@TheGingey]

I do not see a downside

[@jaydon4574]

Heck, you get to stay drunk for the rest of your life!

[@DBronk22]

F yea

[@mrnerdguy1]

This is actually true! Although apparently the subjective effects from people who've tried it are that it is less pleasant, lasts far longer, and has an awful, awful hangover. Most alcohols can be drank to produce a drunken state, although it's not generally advised

[@bromisovalum8417]

acetone tastes terrible though, smells acrid too, and as it has a relatively low boiling point (56°C) your sweat will reek off it.

[@CaptainHowdy420]

One of my co workers died by drinking rubbing alcohol. He was an alcoholic trying to kick his bad habit and his family removed all the alcohol from the house. They found him unresponsive in the morning. R.I.P. Brad.

[@jjdayoungin947]

my father used to drink and i’m so glad he was never like this i’d hate to go through this, RIP brad

[@Poodleinacan]

I know that quitting cold turkey alcohol, for alcoholics, is deadly and if death doesn't occur permanent damage does happen

[@VRadev-fg5mf]

Brad was a retard

[@frailvoid5844]

@@Poodleinacan Exactly, quitting depressants cold turkey in general can lead to deadly seizures

[@tongpoo8985]

rip. my mom told me her teacher died the same way when she was a kid.

[@baalmolech]

I remember as a child my uncle used to buy bottles of rubbing alcohol and drink them like water. I’m a recovering alcoholic now and I’m thankful I never got to that point ever.

[@josemv25]

Bullshit

[@Foxiz]

Sober alcoholic here too, but I have downed insanely many bottles of hand sanitizer. Once I got used to the taste, I saw no problems with it. Keep up the good work on that recovering path! 👍

[@baalmolech]

@@Foxiz it’s crazy the lengths we will go to feed the addiction. Thank you very much!! 🫶

[@HeadNtheClouds]

It’s good to clean your bumbum with 😊

[@georgemacaroni]

@@Foxiz You... You drank denatured wood alcohol? Gross.

[@LV-426...]

Tried it once. 1. It smells horribly. 2. Had the worst hangover ever. 3. It does get you drunk way faster than usual alcohol. You can literally feel getting drunk. 4. It burns your stomach. You can feel you stomach upset even the next day.

[@KaifamGaming]

that wasnt healthy man

[@LV-426...]

@@KaifamGaming I know. That's why I tried it once and no more.

[@KaifamGaming]

@@LV-426... nice

[@Melodie_Info3]

It's like Lucifer told you to consume it for drinks

[@ToadrixAce]

@@Melodie_Info3 mhm

[@darknoise12]

What I got from this video is that if you're depressed just pee it out

[@thijsbron6355]

You forgot the dying part😉

[@aiex314]

lmfao

[@omnacky]

And if you're manic then just shit it all out brah

[@thelonecabbage7834]

Depression is stored in the balls.

[@simonbadoyan7080]

Bro you made me laugh so hard 😂😂😂😂

[@vickielawson3114]

I drank a shot of 91% rubbing alcohol because I took Ambien (it makes you do stupid stuff). No hangover, but every exhalation was like breathing nail polish remover (acetone) ALL DAY!! It was horrendous.

[@ducci6]

Been there through the ambien nights lol

[@donaldtrumplover2254]

Ye my sisters grandma was literally just laying out all of her clothes and trying them on repeatedly when she had ambien. Left there house a mess

[@normaljohn6035]

Ahhh classic Ambien shenanigans😂 that shit was so fun when I was in high school lolol. I would snort it and drink a little and it would be a gooood night lol

[@ducci6]

@Normal John same here 🤣🤣 snorting it used to take it to a whole other level to the point of hallucinating and changing my mindset and opinions of things. Lord those were crazy times. 🤪

[@normaljohn6035]

@@ducci6 the reason I started was because my dad found out I was smoking weed and starting testing me-- nonbenzos (aka ambien) are not on a 7-panel test😂 my parents both had scripts too. The amount of nights I would slide on my stomach to get to my moms purse at night was unreal😂😂😂😭

[@no_dot_0_dash]

I've never wanted to drink it, but I've always wanted to know why I couldn't! Thank you for such a great "to the point" video.

[@falkwulf3842]

As a Chemist I can say that this is a great 30,000 ft overview. While not wrong there is a WHOLE LOT missing. First of all Ethanol is distilled from edible grains like corn and barley where as Isopropyl alcohol is distilled from propylene and thus is a petrochemical. The easiest way to understand is ... Edible grain vs petroleum ....

[@Foxiz]

@@falkwulf3842 But - at least here in Sweden - there's just a tiny percentage of isopropanol, and then the companies try to scare off people from drinking it by adding a lot of Bitrex. Once there came out a batch with technical alcohol containing Methanol, and it was swiftly taken off the shelves and warned about, because the brand is known to be drinked by alcoholics. It was a pretty human and wholesome happening, I think. Do other countries really use Methanol in their technical alcohols? That's just evil!

[@Tori-j2d]

I drank it often I Mix it with water And I’m here been here for years after

[@Foxiz]

@@Tori-j2d Same, but didn't mix it with water

[@lookieeight1006]

​@@falkwulf3842 for someone who says that this video is missing nuance to say that isopropanol==petroleum is quite ironic. What you're saying boils down to "one is more natural and thus better" which as a chemist you should know is a bad statement. We can derive absolutely safe products from extremely dangerous materials. Saying that ethanol is inherently better because it's made from edible grain is like saying ozone is safe since it's made from made from oxygen.

[@macryin3309]

I’ve drank hand sanitizer before with no issues. Added a few salt packets to it & strained out the gel layer it formed on top and although bitter, it got me wasted. Needless to say I never did it again.

[@rifIedoII]

What did you mix it with?

[@maysun7094]

@@rifIedoIIdont do it bro 😭

[@Rägarded]

I had a teenage guy with me at my job for a week as part of the schools work experience programs, he told me he resorted to mixing hand sanitizer 50/50 with milk to get drunk with his friends.

[@redco8891]

"JC" is a thirty year old man, presenting to the emergency room with hyperisopropylemia. Hyper meaning high, isopropyl being rubbing alcohol, and emia meaning presence in blood. High isopropyl alcohol presence in blood.

[@NativeOfTheLand97]

Lol chubbyemu

[@TheHuskyGT]

Let's just make sure wang! plays "JC" and we're set.

[@mariosebastiani3214]

Wait, "J.C.", 30 years old... "What's wrong with you, young man?" "Peter told me it would've been safe to turn water into rubbing alcohol, so i made a few amphoras of it and we drank"

[@TheWtfnonamez]

I have a large stockpile of booze, and an even larger stockpile of industrial solvents because I do metalwork. The chances of me drinking the solvents was zero, but after I watching this video I feel validated. Thank you for explaining why drinking my bottles of acetone and biofuel was a bad idea.

[@derangedoven7928]

"was" oh no

[@rojahcroker]

Damn bruh 😕

[@OnlineKeybinds]

Hbhgjng

[@el4242]

I'm picking up on some sarcasm. 🤔🤣

[@kylothy487]

Solvents are for huffing bro. Try it it’s harmless

[@jcdenton9969]

*A man drank 1 bottle of rubbing alcohol and this is what appened to his body*

[@jeffjones3145]

A man named JC...

[@mpk6664]

@@jeffjones3145 Jesus Christ it's JC

[@jarskil8862]

JC was found to be suffering from ketoacidosis, due Acetol build up in blood. Keto, meaning to put Acid, meaning sour And, -Osis meaning state To put on sour state, it means that JC's body was becoming acidic. But body has natural buffer towards acidication, so what can cause this to fail? Lets take a look what is happening in JC's body.

[@jmiod2819]

Presebnting to the emergency room where we are now

[@katesmith8897]

I love this Cubbyemu crossover

[@carlpapa123]

Im 15 and the thought randomly hit me. Never drank any alcohol before (and dont intend to) but i just randomly thought of it and this video was super informative and helpful. Thank you.

[@cameron6464]

Ngl this video made drinking rubbing alcohol seem a bit safer than I initially thought.

[@AssaultRoomba]

So they made it dangerous to drink because they wanted more money?

[@joeylawn36111]

Not really. Let's say you're a chemical manufacturer who wants to supply pure ethanol as a solvent (which you can buy at a hardware store - I have a container now at home - it's called _denatured_ alcohol). Well, since the federal gov't taxes drinking alcohol, that makes the price of any ethanol more expensive, even if it's not planned to be used for drinking. So to sell it cheap, the industry "denatures" the alcohol - making it unsafe to drink, therefore no alcohol tax on it. Also, the chemical industry does not want to sell products that what I would call "dual use" - both used for human consumption _and_ regular chemical use, just too many regulatory and liability problems with doing that.

[@cutthroat399]

@@joeylawn36111 that was one long winded yes.

[@spuhgeddy2971]

@@cutthroat399 it’s a solid yes tho, makes sense too

[@angeloluna529]

Government is always a crook, they take our money and rarely help us

[@qsam-yq9vv]

@@cutthroat399 No, you guys don't get it. If the same alcohol is used for drinks as for medical rubbing alcohol, either drinks become dirt cheap or medical alcohol becomes very expensive. Going towards either side has bad consequences. Making rubbing alcohol dirt cheap but inedible completely solves this problem. The taxes are a big benefit, yes, and probably played a role in the decision, but this has far better consequences than simply increasing tax revenue on ethanol.

[@tvspy9770]

Never wanted to drink either but this video got me interested in the psychoactive effects of acetone. Not a common drug of choice.

[@joeylawn36111]

I sometimes use it as a solvent. You can tell it's definitely something you don't want to drink. The fumes are quite potent, proper ventilation is required. Plus, it'll dry out your skin, but not permanently.

[@tvspy9770]

@@joeylawn36111 I don't mean for me to experience.. lol. Definitely wouldn't drink and glad to hear you are being safe.

[@christineferreira2181]

When I think of acetone I think of the main ingredient of my nail polish remover. So I'll stick to either my red wine or bourbon and diet soda

[@pgtv14]

@@joeylawn36111 Im guessing it dries out your skin because it's in a high concentration. 95% ethanol will do the same.

[@joeylawn36111]

​@@pgtv14 Any solvent that can dissolve the natural oils in your skin can dry it out. 99% Isopropyl alcohol also will.

[@3xotic4mbition]

Once, my friend gave me a shot of hand sanitizer, telling me it was a vodka. It basically poisoned me and I spent the whole day throwing up. I couldn’t stop shaking and my whole body felt dried up.

[@bromisovalum8417]

Nice friends you have. In a legal sense that really is attempted poisoning. You've been lucky, it could have been worse if it contained methanol.

[@lonew872]

You still friends with him?

[@Firguy_the_Foot_Fetishist]

I hope you punched him in the kidney for that.

[@3xotic4mbition]

@@lonew872 nah lol

[@OneHunnitNoCapStannitOnBidnisz]

Is he or u gay ?

[@kcrane801]

I remember being taught in middle school that drinking the rubbing alcohol would make you go blind.I have never ever ever thought about drinking it ever.

[@PumaPantalones]

Methanol can cause blindness, not isopropyl.

[@D3VIOUS24]

That's a lot of evers

[@trippedoutcookie550]

i have a feeling it was possibly learned from the past rubbing alcohol hence why it was in "school" so im guessing it was a history lesson about taxes about alcohol and why is regular rubbing alcohol cheaper then the ingestible counterpart ​ @PumaPantalones

[@shortcatofficial2137]

Isn't that what moonshine does?

[@thewarhogclan171]

@@shortcatofficial2137if its made incorrectly yes but made right its the purest booze you’ll ever get hammered on

[@foogod4237]

Note, the "ethanol with other stuff added" is still something you can buy. In the US, at least, it is typically sold as "denatured alcohol". In other places it goes by different names, such as "methylated spirits". There are lots of different formulations, and in many cases methanol is no longer added, but just various other compounds to make it extremely bad tasting, bad smelling, induce vomiting, etc, instead (though there are still some variations that contain methanol too).

[@ashe1.070]

The part about methanol not being added anymore is far from true. Look at the material safety data sheets (MSDS) to get a list of the ingredients, and their approximate percentages. For example, Klean Strip green is about 3-7% methanol. Jasco has about 50-55%. The normal Klean Strip stuff is about 40-60%. Crown has between 60-75% methanol. The other common additives are methyl isobutyl ketone (4-methylpentan-2-one), occasionally acetone, and isopropanol. I think one of them also contains a few percent ethyl acetate. Denatonium benzoate is probably added to a lot of these, but it’s usually not listed in the MSDS. So, at least where I live most brands contain a significant quantity of methanol. The brands I listed are also some of the most common ones in the US as far as I know. I used to have to dig through these things to find one that was mostly ethanol for making ethyl esters until my local scientific supply store started selling absolute anhydrous ethanol.

[@bojackhorselad]

usually has benzene which is hyperemetic (more vomit-inducing than ethanol)

[@ashe1.070]

@@bojackhorselad The use of benzene in commercial products has largely been discontinued in most countries due to its carcinogenicity (IARC group I carcinogen: causes leukemia). Nowadays the common denaturing agents are methanol, methyl isobutyl ketone, and acetone. Sometimes methyl ethyl ketone, ethyl acetate, and isopropanol are used.

[@hitmandahl]

There is Manny typen of rubbing alcohol here in Sweden that can be drunk since it’s 85% ethanol with a minuscule amount of isopropyl alcohol as a denaturing agent. Tastes bad, but when I was broke as a homeless alcoholic it was easy to enter bathrooms in hospitals to get a bottle to drink so I wouldn’t get delirious from the withdrawals.

[@savagesarethebest7251]

I have consumed quite a few bottles myself. Apparently you can get the isopropyl out of solution with regular salt..

[@hitmandahl]

@@savagesarethebest7251 I don’t know if that is true. However as long as you have more ethanol than isopropyl alcohol it’s less toxic. The liver processes regular ethanol before isopropyl alcohol. So if consumed in the way I did you would piss out the isopropyl alcohol before the liver could try to break it down, and thank got for that! Why? Well isopropyl alcohol is turned into acetone in the body. Please don’t try this.. Get help before you end of in this situation!

[@OneHunnitNoCapStannitOnBidnisz]

​@@hitmandahl isopropyl isn't that bad for getting a buzz

[@rockid7970]

In Poland, we have denatured alcohol sold in stores (aka _dykta_, it's used as a solvent, fuel etc.). It is blue and smells pretty strong, since it's contaminated 92% alcohol. It is not considered an alcoholic beverage and it's cheaper than high proof alcohol. Because of that it is a very popular product among homeless alcoholics. They filter it out through bread to remove the color and drink it. This product used to contain actual toxic substances like methanol, but because people actually drank it, most companies stopped adding those, to "minimize" the risk of deadly poisoning among alcoholics. But still, by the year 2022, the people get poisoned on ocassion. Correction: it is more like bluish-purple colour

[@ihswap]

Thats smart and considerate. Idk why purposely make something poisonous for the sake of money. They should just make it extremely bitter. Thats why you don't see people or underage teens drinking cooking wine or bitters because they taste horrendous and if it comes to the point where they resort to that then they shouldn't die because of it.

[@rockid7970]

@@ihswap Maybe no one thought in the first place that anyone will drink it, but I doubt it (people used to drink way weirder stuff, like cologne). There's a joke in our culture which goes like this: a bum walks into a store and asks: "do you have denatured alcohol?" and the shopkeeper says: "no, we don't have" and then bum asks: "how about a different kind of wine?". Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev once wrote: "In Russia, it's unknown why no one knows how Pushkin died, but everyone knows how to purify French polish"

[@spotsies]

@@ihswap because if you just add denatonium benzoate, people can easily distil it, and get pure ethanol. if you add methanol, you complicate the process a bit, as these two have similar boiling points, and distilling it isnt as trivial.

[@Talia.777]

@@spotsies Yes. Exactly.

[@rockid7970]

@@spotsies I doubt a random bum would have means to distill it out

[@cammcnamara9283]

this channel is incredible. gonna be big one day. by end of year i’m guessing u got at least 1.5M.

[@feliox_]

that aged like milk, unforrtunately

[@mercyagain]

@@feliox_ lol

[@Roo31173]

I wish. its my favorite science channel by far, with chubbyemu second.

[@davidrickards212]

I swallowed a large gulp of rubbing alcohol by mistake thinking it was my other drink. I immediately lost everything on my stomach, and continued to throw up for ten to fifteen minutes afterward. It was a horrible experience!

[@yjfuykyil]

I'll never forget the time I was at the hospital for a run of some medication, and while I was sitting around waiting, I saw a dude grab a bottle of hand sanitizer and proceed to chug it. I just thought damn, he sure is dedicated to his craft.

[@Darrell1981]

Bathroom, at 16 it had me in the bathroom, couldn't throw up, it all went out the other end. Went from early drunk to sobriety over night.

[@xsanguine]

How much did you hsvr

[@Darrell1981]

@@xsanguine 4 ounces. That's like 8 ounces in boozes alc, plus I was new to alcohol. Took a few hours for everything to stop spinning the next morning.

[@sory4beinanonymous]

The biggest flaw here is that rubbing alcohol was non existent in stores during the pandemic. Really hard to obtain. Whereas, drinking alcohol sales boomed

[@null2338]

God damn it, I was just about to make myself a cocktail with soda and rubbing alcohol....

[@connflicts]

same 😕

[@7HPDH]

Consider your life saved!

[@h4ro457]

I will make it anyways Sounds fun

[@dom7634]

What kind of pansy needs a chaser for their rubbing alcohol!?

[@derangedoven7928]

i mean you still can, just use 1/3 of what you would normaly. and be prepared for the consequences.

[@MinorLife10]

As I live in a post-Soviet country, we have a big problem with alcoholism. People drink everything containing ethanol. House-brewed alcohol, hawthorn tincture, medical-purpose ethanol, sanitizer, even eau de cologne.

[@redtsun67]

My favorite piece of real life lore is that alcohol is way overpriced for absolutely no reason, and the only reason you can't drink the cheap rubbing alcohol from the dollar store is because they put a chemical in it specifically so you can't drink it.

[@Gazr965]

Imagine a World where alcohol was as cheap as soda pop, well what other problems would you then have to complain about ? Think about it. Gaz UK.

[@CHEVYCAMARO4GEN]

I’ve drank it before it’s called the “Holy water” it’s half parts rubbing alcohol and half parts water, you get drunk fast but wake up with the worst hangover

[@creatureofthenight852]

We're a different breed😭 I cant even stand the smell anymore but somehow I did it when I was younger

[@theungulate]

Same here, it was the worst night of my life after that. I actually watched this video because I'm paranoid I did permanent damage to myself lol. Though pretty sure I'm only slow now bc I smoke too much pot. Also have no idea how I'm alive

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

I’ve drunk it with Coca-Cola, believe me, I was so sick I’ve not drunk any form of alcohol since.

[@creatureofthenight852]

@@rogerhargreaves2272 and it probably still tasted like straight rubbing alcohol😭 the nastiest shit I've ever tasted. And gave me a pretty sore throat for a few days..

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

@@creatureofthenight852 - yea, it tasted horrible, I was wrenching up for days. Even now, ten months after, if I smell rubbing alcohol it makes me want to throw up. Meh, never again. It’s denatured with something disgusting 🤮. We’re both here to tell the tale though. Greetings from Wales U.K. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😀

[@Wodenseyes]

My cousin rents a room from a severe alcoholic that has such extreme addiction, during the Covid lockdown, she drank rubbing alcohol, hand sanitizer, her own rotten fruit juice wine stuff, nail polish remover, and hair spray trying to get over the detox pains. She didn’t have a car and my cousin was trying to save her by not taking her to the gas station to get beer or anything but after a week of her drinking anything she could get her hands on, he finally just started buying her beer from any place that was open. Alcoholics will go to insane lengths to get drunk. 😢

[@Lupine.]

It becomes a basic need at one point. Some people make drinking their main hobby without realizing it, then associate sobriety with boredom.

[@jonsworld5307]

and if shes died from drinking something he should of been held responsible if want help get her rehab not cause her drink stuff kill her

[@flow5718]

Bruh, people died not getting their alcohol fix during lockdowns. That's not a good way to go, should've gotten her to the hospital where they'd give her benzos to take the edge off. Otherwise they can literally have seizures and die.

[@danielsmokesmids]

​@@jonsworld5307forcing someone to go to rehab is wrong and won't work. You'll just piss them off

[@lukasg4807]

@@jonsworld5307 Severe alcoholics can get withdrawals and die from not getting alcohol

[@mumbos8211]

I knew a guy who was extremely addicted to drugs and alcohol and sometimes he would drink isopropyl alcohol or even just acetone straight which is pretty insane, he said it felt like alcohol but more impairing, he said there was more muscle relaxant qualities with these two and he liked them more than ethanol. he also said there was more intense side effects, vomiting was super common, his breath would smell like acetone for the entire next day after drinking it and that hed get a lot of stomach pains. i havent spoken to him in a while but i hope hes doing okay.

[@exodus1055]

He is pretty much dead, sadly

[@mumbos8211]

@Sciencian he ended up overdosing on fentanyl, flubromazolam and methamphetamine a year ago, i just found out by one of his close friends not long after this post. he was a good dude he just had major drug problems, i will miss him.

[@Aparou27]

@@mumbos8211 that’s nature thinning out the idiots

[@markodonnell669]

@@Aparou27 you wouldnt say that if it was your family

[@mumbos8211]

@Ithecastic he didnt overdose on acetone, as far as acetone goes, there is not much dosing information but we do know the LD50 (lethal dose), when he was doing it he always drank less than the lethal dose. the main reason acetone is toxic is because of how potent it is as a CNS depressant, it has a very high affinity towards gaba receptors like ethanol, GHB etc, so high doses have the potential to kill you. when he overdosed it wasnt acetone, he was on a mixture of fentanyl, flubromazolam which is a very potent research chemical benzodiazapine much stronger than xanax and other pharma benzos and methamphetamine, the cause of death was respiratory depression most likely from the fentanyl and flubromazolam which he both consumed very large amounts of.

[@Dontworryaboutit12]

I stole a bottle of this when I was locked up as a kid. We watered it half way, figured it was 35% now and we took like 6 shots each. I got so messed up and puked my guts out and had the worst headache I have ever had, and the backs of my eyes hurt so bad.

[@scoredbuffalo31]

I almost did this unintentionally, because I had a memory lapse and thought the rubbing alcohol bottle was the mouthwash. My mom asked me what I was doing and I took a second look at the bottle realizing how close I was lmao.

[@enty1011]

That one time I was cleaning my cpu and left the iso next to my water bottle then got up in the middle of the night and took a swig of the wrong bottle...

[@mishaa7263]

🤢🤢🤢🤢

[@nakulsri242]

What happened ⁉️

[@starwarsweexplain6380]

f

[@tobiasbalk3140]

@@nakulsri242 he survived

[@nakulsri242]

@@tobiasbalk3140 I was expecting the details

[@markhenry6622]

I worked with a guy on a Farm. Every day he drank the isopropyl alcohol that was meant to clean wounds on the cattle. And you can imagine he did not look healthy.

[@donnagelina8548]

Actually, during "lockdown" in my state, the liquor stores were all OPEN.

[@ganjaman407]

Yeah, because if they stopped the sales of alcohol, the hospitals would be even more crowded than they already are from people going through alcohol withdrawal.

[@lechatbotte.]

Taxes are NOT the only reason rubbing alcohol is different. Acetone is nail polish as well.

[@buioso]

Here in Italy we use mostly denatured alcohol for non drinking use. It smells strong and has a vivid pink color, you cannot mistake it for simply ethanol

[@boiimcfacto2364]

Why are we ignoring the fact that two of his patrons are named "Kurzgesagt Fan" and "Yare Yare Daze" 😂 Regardless, top notch video, can't wait to see this channel blow up soon!

[@ThomasButler-sp4ro]

I somehow remember from college organic chemistry that all alcohols are toxic and that being drunk is actually mild poisoning. BTW. the term "Alcohol" refers to many organic compounds having the -OH hydroxyl group in its molecular structure.

[@akagordon]

I had a great uncle who used to take rubbing alcohol, pour it into a loaf of bread, then drink whatever came out the other side. That was his breakfast beverage of choice. He did this for decades, until he died of cancer in his early 40's.

[@riverx6802]

What type of cancer did he have?

[@sebastianlara503]

What type of cancer?

[@ldoyleisgay2512]

So theoretically, i could take a half shot and live, right??

[@Liz-ru2io]

yes but you could get very sick

[@chrissytheconqueror7049]

I'm a medic and I really need to commend you for your good presentation of this medical/chemistry topic. I really haven't seen anybody explain this in more understandable terms for laypeople while still remaining accurate.

[@falkwulf3842]

As a Chemist I agree that this was a fair 30,000 ft overview but there is a far simpler way to explain it. Ethanol = Edible grains like Corn, Barley, Wheat. Isopropyl = propylene a chemical obtained from petroleum and natural gas..

[@SevenTheMisgiven]

Laypeople... The term is always Laymen and we all know why you choose a different term. Please tell you're not actually this stupid?

[@trenton1458]

I’ve actually drank rubbing alcohol a few times and I got hella drunk but the hang over was horrible

[@muddycatfish5396]

swag

[@estebansingh9411]

This doesn't apply in my country. Here rubbing alcohol is ethanol as well, just with added menthol. Needless to say I tried it and now my favorite liquor store is the pharmacy.

[@SpringWaterPaul]

Here in Finland too it's safe to drink it. They just make it taste very very bad.

[@atropa6053]

i had alcohol denaturated with menthol as well, spent my underage years wasted on it haha

[@malloryknox6802]

In my country too, but there's still a chance it can be contaminated with methanol, therefore it's dangerous

[@0x8badf00d]

Did you mean to write methanol? Menthol is a VERY different thing.

[@estebansingh9411]

@@0x8badf00d nope. I did mean menthol. I'm aware that if it were methanol I wouldn't be writing this

[@franksavage1499]

I've drank over a litre of the "rubbing" alcohol that is commonly used here in Sweden, there are a few different variants, but they mostly contain pure ethanol and some additives. Some (most?) contains bittrex and the one that have in front of me now does have that (unfortunately), it says it contains 680g/ml ethanol which is on the low side and 131g/kg of propan-2-ol which is a bit much but I would have drank it if not for the foul taste

[@kg-Whatthehelliseventhat]

Hey Frank, Sweden is a beautiful country. My wife has friends there. We live in Japan and here I found Ethanol IP for Disinfection. I use it for my nutritional IV. Is what I have the same thing as what you wrote about? I have been looking for hydrogen peroxide but can't find it here. Thank you for the kind reply. 😊

[@ImagineAsylo]

When I was 14 I tried to unalive by drinking this.. I smelt like it for several days after AND I could still taste it. Sometimes I still can’t stand the smell or anything that smells similar such as hand sanitizer and certain mouth washes… Also can only use certain toothpastes because some for some reason make me think of it. It was extremely disgusting and I puked my guts out.

[@AnonymousDumboOctopus]

Why did you think that would work lol

[@ImagineAsylo]

@@AnonymousDumboOctopus I was 14 🤣

[@sebastianlara503]

How much did you drink and do you have any long term effects from it now?

[@ImagineAsylo]

@@sebastianlara503 a chugged from the bottle so I'm not sure, at 1 cup or 2 worth I don't think I have an effects from it, but I might just not aware

[@HellHazAtTheZoo]

When my older sister was a little less than two, she got into a bottle of rubbing alcohol while thinking it was water. She took a couple swallows before she started throwing up, alerting my mom, who was in university at the time and doing homework. Mom called poison control, but by the time they got there, my sister had thrown up everything she ingested. It’s a somewhat funny story now, especially considering how book- and street-smart my sister is nowadays.

[@ottovonbismarck2083]

☝️presenting to the emergency room.

[@kenopsia9013]

-emia, meaning prescience in blood

[@Nocturnalzyx]

Ironic that a treatment for methyl alcohol (methanol) poisoning is ethanol, since the latter is a better competitive agonist for alcohol dehydrogenase (which prevents the metabolism of methanol).

[@lopiklop]

It's kind of laughable that someone thinks convenience/liquor retailers would be closed during quarantine. If anything, vice sales skyrocketed.

[@NoOne-wd7nz]

I actually drank an unknown amount of diluted 99% isopropanol after a few beers. I was blackout drunk pretty much instantly, the next day I could barely leave my bed, horrible hangover and still feeling drunk. Not so fun fact: Acetone not only gets excreted through urine but also your lungs. I was breathing acetone for 2 days while being nauseas af. Wouldn't recommend

[@xavierm2545]

Are you okay now?

[@mothh]

Someone at my school chugged a bottle of rubbing alcohol in the art room and had to get their stomach pumped

[@xhxhxhxchchchch6901]

Absolutely love this channel!

[@darkscienceyt]

Much appreciated!

[@hump4559]

In a lot of countries we still use ethanol as a disinfectant. We just add a denaturant. This usually is a compound that helps kill more bacteria. It will also give you nasty diarrhea and bypass the alcohol drink tax.

[@Bangada]

I guess its the right answer for such a short video. In a longer video studies of drinking each of the three could be discussed. Its obviously harder to dose it correctly, but also the 'highs' are slightly different (you are not getting the hoped drunken state, but another one) and the next day aftermaths are different.

[@zakattack0075]

💯❤

[@nullhare]

I used (during the pandemic) and continue to use grain alcohol for disinfecting. It's $15 for a bottle that lasts me weeks. 96% alcohol and evaporates super fast because it has way less water. I use it on my hands and at work to clean my desk, mouse, and keyboard.

[@DarkZazz]

I drank isopropyl alcohol back in highschool, would not recommend. The taste lasts for a week, and the headache/hangover lasts longer. Still can't stand the smell without getting triggered.

[@joshuagoodsell9330]

That methanol situation in prohibition is why people think you can go blind from bad moonshine. Moonshine made without added solvents cant make you go blind, and in fact well made moonshine will give you less of a hangover than commercial stuff.

[@joshuagoodsell9330]

@@ithecastic right, the only reason to add solvents to moonshine is for nefarious purposes.

[@joshuagoodsell9330]

I didn't mean any attitude whatsoever, I thought we were in agreeance. I'm a chemist and a distiller so I know what you meant by heads and tails. But methanol doesn't actually come out in the foreshots because the molecule has a higher affinity for water than ethanol, and therefore drags its feet about evaporating. I guess ethanol is a solvent but I meant added solvents like methanol to stretch out the volume of product or poison whoever may drink it.

[@joshuagoodsell9330]

@@ithecastic haha, no worries 🤣

[@dannychenski687]

I'm exactly 15 seconds into this video, and I know everything I need to know. No need to check 0:16 , I'm sure that I know everything I need now.

[@walrus1005]

If acetone is both cheaper and gets you drunk EVEN faster why shouldnt you just drink that?

[@ephemeral_cryptid]

It's also safer for the body than acetadlehyde if consumed in tiny amounts 😃

[@NecroFlex]

I once got "drunk" from inhaling it, i was working on fixing a problem on a motherboard and back then was doing it as a hobby, so finding a faulty SMD on a motherboard required lots of isopropanol, cheaper than a FLIR camera for finding the damn SMD that's shorted. It's also great for cleaning flux after soldering. Long story short, i had a raging headache and some dizziness because i've sat right above it the whole time in a poorly ventilated room...

[@E-MOTION-MUSIC]

Please do a video on why you shouldn’t inhale rubbing alcohol. Way more people are secretly addicted to sniffing/huffing it

[@GREY_WOLF365]

U earn my respect and my subscription have a nice day my friend 😉😉😉

[@darkscienceyt]

Thanks for the sub!

[@your1heelinamerica644]

I remember as a kid I sat in the restroom tempting to drink it just cause I was curious how it would taste. No body ever told me that I would die or that it was harmful (label was torn off the bottle & I was like 5-7 of age). And some reason I didn’t ended up drinking it. Wondered what changed my mind?

[@mouthwash884]

You wouldn’t have been able to get it down, especially at 6 years old. It burns like a mother when not diluted. We had dudes in the military drinking it (in the form of hand sanitizer mixed with salt to pull out the gel), and you have to be very determined and absolutely desperate. Some of them had chemical burns in their mouths and esophagus, as well as gastrointestinal bleeding because they drank it without diluting it. Some of the “smart” ones would mix it with beverage base powder (like the lemonade powder packets you put into a bottle of water) and water. Their bodies the next day would reek, just emanating the smell of sweet nail polish remover (acetone). Nothing like being in formation next to dudes that smell like that and body odor in 100 degree summer heat. Makes my stomach turn just thinking about it.

[@Otakupatriot117]

I would say the smell, but with how many stories there are of young children drinking whole bottles of poison yet not wanting to eat carrots, I'd say you just got very lucky and realized at the last second "Nah, that's dumb."

[@FIDreams]

'three times stronger than alcohol ' That's all some people needed to hear. XD

[@davemccage7918]

I once lost the cap to a bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol, so I poured it in an empty water bottle and later forgot about it. Few days later and I’m thirsty while working in the garage when, wouldn’t you know it, a convenient bottle of Dasani is just right there. I didn’t realize until it was too late aaaaannnndddd…. nigggah... Probably the worst kind of drunk a man could possibly get. I’d compare it to downing three 30 packs of hot Bud Light with Dylan Mulvaney sitting naked on your face. I don’t recommend this to ANYONE.

[@lunaa764]

Does anyone else think of that vid of that guy on facebook live who chugged rubbing alcohol and then started violently throwing up 😂

[@Mr.Boyo13]

Yes...YESSSS The man of science is BACK!

[@copacoguy]

You should bring your back cartoon characters, their really funny to have around 😂

[@theprogressiveatheist7024]

I tried this once. It burns your throat and your stomach and you’ll taste it when you burp for the next 3 days. Probably drank about 1 1/2 shots of it. I didn’t go blind or have alcohol poisoning but it is more potent than normal ethanol alcohol, and is more likely to damage your esophagus and stomach and cause cancer.

[@markiangooley]

At the start of the pandemic I couldn’t find isopropyl alcohol for sale. I went to the liquor store and bought a 1.75-liter bottle of the cheapest maximum-proof grain alcohol (it’s only 153 proof here in Florida) I could easily get. Expensive, but I wanted to have some sort of sanitizer. In a few weeks, isopropanol started showing up again. Some hand sanitizer I bought was probably ethanol based because it smelled of whiskey! When the pandemic gradually died down I started drinking the 153-proof booze, using it to spike diet soft drinks. Took a while to finish.

[@gaston6800]

One of my roommates at Job Corps where I was studying drank hand sanitizer after they ran out of vodka. Hand sanitizer is also isopropyl alcohol. All that happened was he got drunker.

[@joeylawn36111]

Another reason not to drink isopropyl alcohol is that there can be other ingredients in it besides it and water. These aren't disclosed in the bottle labeling as they don't have to be.

[@abdelelfazari6679]

Very informative video! Imma make sure to never be tempted into drinking rubbing alcohol.

[@foxboiunknown320]

The same applies for the "first head" of moonshine, and the first batch of many liquors

[@foxboiunknown320]

And some alcoholics bare a tolerance to medical alcohol (I've known some to have done this daily and survive)

[@bromisovalum8417]

First head contains most of the methanol, sometimes also some ethyl acetate. It should never be drunk. The oily afterrun is called fusel oil. It's a mixture of higher alcohols including isopropanol. It smells bad (like unwashed feet + alcohol) and can make you really drunk, but produces the vilest of hangovers. The poorest, most degenerated drunks from 19th century used to drink fusel oil when they had nothing else.

[@foxboiunknown320]

@@bromisovalum8417 impressive, never knew that much about it

[@editedforprivacy207]

Everyone is wondering if you can drink rubbing alcohol, while i’m here wondering if i can try burning 99% as fuel.

[@treylawrence214]

“All this Leads to 🛎️🔔🪦” 💀💀🤣🤣 Omg Lmaoo

[@Lugh444]

I'll stick with my glass of hairspray.

[@eedobee]

I don’t get why a scientific education channel misses the opportunity to explain there’s more than two types of alcohol.

[@southernbreeze3278]

keepin it simple for the folks. though no discussion of butanol, mannitol, etc, he did mention methanol

[@orangutex468]

because the video is directed at a child audience so he needs to keep it simple and short

[@R4NG000]

@@orangutex468 are you stupid? A child audience? Lmfao

[@turolretar]

@@orangutex468children are not alcoholics usually

[@tydshiin5783]

@@orangutex468 When did kids ever have the tendency to start drinking?

[@HighlyInsulatedDummy]

But for this to be the actual case, you would have to foolishly imagine that the gvt does not care about us, right?

[@coltallen9980]

ahaha "foolishly"

[@GetPsyched6]

Yes the government cares about us, specifically a small part of us called our wallet

[@TL....]

back in college when i was renting an apartment, there was this local homeless guy named john that asked people for change and i always saw him drinking listerine

[@AaronNazzy]

one time, i used isopropyl alcohol to “rinse my mouth” when i ran out of mouth wash and i stg my mouth burned horrifically for at least 20-30 mins after the fact. i also had a very sick stomach and i don’t even think i swallowed any

[@camoman7342]

I knew a kid in highschool who drank an entire bottle of rubbing alcohol thinking it would impress some girls. He was quickly taken to the hospital and had his stomach pumped. He survived but those girls never talk to him again. And he never seemed quite "right" ever since then.

[@joesmith9216]

@linus cat tips haha and always stay sober around drunk hoes, fun to be had!

[@Jade0603]

That totally happened

[@quadbecky14]

@@linuscattips6207 Still not really safe

[@sciencoking]

I built an acetone + glowing copper wire lamp in my room. After several hours of experimentation I noticed I was very dizzy and my breath smelled vaguely fruity/solvent-like. After turning off the lamp and opening the window it took several hours before I felt normal again. Not sure if what poisoned me was acetone or ethenone

[@xsanguine]

You absolute idiot you were inhaling acetone

[@spotsies]

unlesss your eye was bleeding, it was likely acetone. Also, don't do stupid shit

[@IG_ArticleParticle]

Love how you mention that the govt would miss out on tax revenue. Its the only reason any drug is illegal in the first place. Its ability to be taxed.

[@JCPplays]

Who would ever drink rubbing alcohol in the first place? If you have ever used it on a wound, it burns like hell.

[@n3gi_]

I don't even drink Ethanol. I prefer the drug that works opposite of Ethanol, i.e. Caffeine.

[@beckhamtoovey4140]

Ya uppers ftw. Although I usually prefer stuff a tad stronger than caffeine.

[@sheepketchup9059]

@@beckhamtoovey4140 Methylphenidate?

[@beckhamtoovey4140]

@@sheepketchup9059 methylphenidate is ok but I much prefer dextroamphetamine.

[@STingyWasTaken]

@@beckhamtoovey4140 wat are you talking about-

[@beckhamtoovey4140]

@@STingyWasTaken things that I abuse to make life less shitty

[@weedyeeter940]

Dont drink rubbing alcohol: go to your grandpa's house, he's got moonshine

[@splashykoy11]

Imagine if a bartender gets drunk and gives you this instead of actual alcohol.

[@user-uo8ny1kj4c]

he'd need to be something else other than drunk, probably on dope

[@HappyAccidentVideos]

“Mix it with some soda, and you have yourself a well made cocktail.” Sorry I gotta pause the video right here, I really need a drink. I’ll come back and let you know how it was

[@sroull8707]

u died or nah??

[@McFlingleson]

One time my grandpa told me that when he was a little kid he got thirsty in the night one day, but rather than waking up to go get water he sleepwalked to the bathroom and, in his sleep, took a bottle of rubbing alcohol out of the medicine cabinet and poured it down the sink and filled it with water and drank it, then filled it again and drank it, and then the third time he was filling it the sound of him messing around in the bathroom woke up his parents and they went to see what was going on and found their son chugging from a rubbing alcohol bottle and they screamed and woke him up. At the age of 99, he died earlier this year. Now memories like that are all that's left of him.

[@NicCageForPresident2024]

During the pandemic when I was really going through some hardcore alcoholism I actually considered doing this

[@existenceispainforameeseeks]

i wasn’t planning on drinking rubbing alcohol, but this is good to know.

[@xsanguine]

Oh I am

[@luisramirez-or5vg]

I once accidentally drank a big gulp of it (because someone in my household put it in a water bottle, but it was labeled in permanent marker and it was under the sink, but me being 9-10 years old I didn't pay attention to either), spit it out immediately, fast forward to 2021 and at a house party I drink a cup of red wine thinking it was coca cola, as soon as that happened and I felt the taste and smell and all that stuff in my mouth, it immediately sent me back to the rubbing alcohol incident and just how similar the two felt, I though still instinctively spit out the red wine lol

[@sammyhooligan803]

Absolutely, don't trust anyone, anywhere. Some people poison others without them knowing it. Have caution any where food, beverage, is consumed.

[@toko3186]

this channel lowkey could be saving lives bc i keep finding suicide methods im considering on here, watching a video then going helll noooo

[@garrett4575]

Extract is what it's all about. If you can find lemon extract at the discount store for cheap, totally worth it. 85% alcohol and pure ethanol, basically everclear.

[@GabeTheGrump]

Alright cool I’ll go back to drinking cough syrup and mouth wash when I need my fix 👍

[@Mousku]

As a professional alcoholic i was every day drunk during covid, because free hand sanitizer was everywhere 😁