Is it permissible to wipe one's hands with a perfumed wipe containing a percentage of alcohol before eating, as is customary on an airplane?
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Perfumes containing alcohol are considered impure by most scholars. Therefore, if a tissue is perfumed with such a substance, it is impure, and it is not permissible to wipe hands or other body parts with it, because becoming contaminated with impurity without necessity is not permissible.
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