Re denatured alcohol WARNING!!!!
Do NOT use the denatured alcohol from paint stores. Most paint store denatured alcohol is denatured (POISONED) with METHAnol. This is NOT the same as alcohol denat in perfumes and cosmetics! That in cosmetics is less toxic and is only toxic by ingestion, however, methanol is HIGHLY poisonous and is poisonous either when absorbed through the skin (which it does very easily), and is poisonous by inhalation of vapors, and also poisonous by mouth.
It takes about 6ml (6 milliliters, about 1/5 of an ounce, like a teaspoon or so) to cause PERMANENT blindness in an ADULT, less to harm or kill a child! Also if you get poisoned with it, it is likely that you will feel fine for a while usually 12-36 hours, sometimes more, sometimes less, but afterward symptoms like these will likely begin at which point you are pushing your luck, and the damage is possibly done, as it is sketchy whether the doctors would be able to make you able to see again if you even survive (80% of serious cases THAT ARE TREATED AT TIME OF ONSET OF SYMPTOMS end in DEATH):
Nausea / vomiting, abdominal pain
slower or absent breathing
Headache, dizziness
Hangover-like symptoms
misty or snowy vision blurring or dimmed vision or flashes of light or blindness,
Unsteady
Confusion, depressed LOC or coma
Seizures
Death
If you do get exposed to it call the poison control and go to a HOSPITAL'S EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT RIGHT AWAY, as you will be likely to be ok if you are treated BEFORE SYMPTOMS APPEAR (before you start feeling sick), but are in pretty bad shape if you wait until you start feeling effects to get treated.
The moral of the story is you need to either buy food grade alcohol or use everclear or whatever the strongest liquor alcohol additive is in your state, but DON'T even think about using denatured alcohol from a paint store!!!!!!!!!!
