Purell is famous in every household and kept in barely one in seven.
The world’s best-selling hand sanitizer makes more than 80% of its sales through distributors to hospitals, schools and offices, not to shoppers. It sits in only about 14% of U.S. homes. In April 2026, the Akron family that ran it for nearly 80 years sold the company to Clorox for $2.25 billion.
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