There is one problem with using alcohol to cool yourself.
Amongst the many different types of alcohols, the only one which is
relatively non-toxic to humans, is ethanol. Even ethanol is
slightly toxic, which is why drinking alcoholic drinks cause liver
and brain damage in the long term.
All the other alcohols are deadly toxic to
humans. Consuming them leads readily to blindness
and a painful death.
Taxing drinkable alcoholic drinks are an important source of
revenue for all governments. Hence, alcohol tax makes alcoholic
drinks expensive.
But because alcohols are also needed for non-consumption
purposes across many industries (eg. painting, perfume, mechanics,
etc), and yet have the risk of being consumed as drinks (eg.
people buy cheap alcohol from paint / perfume /
mechanics shop to drink it as party drinks), hence the
law of all countries specify that you need to 'denature' the
alcohols sold for non-drinking purposes (eg. painting, perfume,
mechanics, etc).
To 'denature' alcohol means to add poison to it, so people can't
buy cheap alcohol (eg. meant for painting, perfume, mechanics, etc)
and drink them. Common poisons used for such, include the toxic
alcohols of methanol and propan-2-ol.
Hence, alcohol which you can obtain to, for instance, rub on
your skin to cool yourself down, eg. alcohol swabs or bottles
you can buy at the pharmacy, will certainly be non-drinkable
denatured alcohol, which contains some toxic-to-humans chemical,
eg. toxic alcohols such as methanol and propan-2-ol.
And anything you rub onto your skin, some of it will diffuse
into into your bloodstream, inevitably. (This includes all
cosmetics that women use, and as such women should cut down on
cosmetics.)
