ALBANY, N.Y. — It was the kind of idea that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo loves: aggressive, attention-grabbing and made in New York.

But on Monday, Mr. Cuomo’s plan to clean the hands of select New York residents with a specially made hand sanitizer sparked an outcry after the governor said that the fluid’s manufacturer was the state’s prison-based product company, Corcraft.

The governor showed off gallons of the liquid — grandly unveiled from behind a thick curtain — at his now-daily coronavirus briefing and presented it as a novel solution to price-gouging of name-brand sanitizer. And he seemed genuinely taken with the product, saying the state would be capable of making 100,000 gallons per week and warning online retailers again that they should stop overcharging.

“You don’t even have the floral bouquet,” he said. “So stop price gouging.”

The sanitizer will be available at local government and state agency offices and outbreak hot spots.