Washing your hands with soap, water helps prevent disease, infection
www.fda.gov
There's no evidence OTC antibacterial soaps prevent disease more than washing with plain soap and water. Some antibacterial drugs can do more harm than good.
  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    I never stopped to ask what is in " antibacterial" soap that makes it such? Do they straight-up put an antibiotic in it like fucking Neosporin?

    Then you’ve got “hand sanitizer” which is usually just denatured ethanol and some gelling agent.

    • thirteene@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Anything that can kill living organisms to the guaranteed percentage, isn’t not as cut and dry as “alcohol” in hand sanitizer. A lot of them are a based in chlorine.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
      41·
      3 months ago

      Not sure. I would have been happy with just a product from a brand I recognized that actually claimed to be soap without weird marketing weasel words.