From my perch on the engine cover of a special operations gunboat, I can see the source of this weird racket--someone on one of the other boats gliding down Kentucky's Salt River is firing a minigun into the woods. Every second, hundreds of 7.62 mm bullets pour out of the spinning machine-gun barrels.
Cetyl and stearyl alcohol, both typically used in hair conditioners, work together and separately with other ingredients to make hair softer and silkier after a washing. Fatty alcohols make up part of the base of the conditioner formula.
Along with ethanol, isopropyl alcohol is one of the types of alcohol commonly used as the primary ingredient of rubbing alcohol, the other ingredient being denatured alcohol. But to keep things simple, letâs just call it rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol is known as surgical spirit in some countries, including the UK and Ireland. Under both names, the solution is typically 70% isopropyl alcohol or ethanol and 30% distilled water. Now, rubbing alcohol does come with a few cautions. Firstly, itâs got quite the aroma, so always use it in a well-ventilated area, serious, this stuff is strong.