Hand sanitizer: Is it better than washing your hands

You must be seeing a lot of hand sanitizer commercials on television these days. These commercials can be seen on television, heard on radio, read on newspaper, magazines, hoardings and on your mobings and on your mobile phones too.

These are sold in the market as an effective may of washing hands without using soap and water. These water less products have become extremely popular among children and parents.

Manufactures of hand sanitizer have been claiming that hand sanitizers are effective in killing 99.9 percent of germs. However, most of the studies and researches have proved that it is not possible to exterminable up to 99 percent of germs by washing lands with sanitizers.

Working of hand sanitizers:

The main functioning of hand sanitizers is via stripping of oil layer present on the skin. This is a good way to prevent bacteria present in the body to rest on the hand surface. However, the bacteria we are talking about is not those that cause illnesses.

Hence, there is absolutely a doubt when it comes to proving the effectiveness of hand sanitizer.

Most of the tests performed on hand sanitizers have defied these claims. This is because manufacturers perform these experiments in controlled situation that also has constant variables.

However, our daily life is not controlled. The same goes to our body’s susceptibility to germs. The tests if conducted on live humans will simply defy the 99.9 percent claims.

Hand sanitizing is good only under emergency situations where you do not have any access to water and sop.

However you would certainly require adequate amount of soap and water after a hard day’s work or when your hands and feet are full of grime and dirt after cleaning work.

If you want to enjoy 100 percent advantage of hand sanitizers. You need to combine it with using different wipes and gels.

These wipes are very effective in clearing oils from the hands. The alcohol present in the gel can kill bacteria on your hand.

When purchasing hand sanitizers, you need to make sure that you go for a reputed brand. Do not buy hand sanitizers that contain less than 60 percent of alcohol.

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