Washing your hands with soap, water helps prevent disease, infection
www.fda.gov
There isn’t sufficient evidence to show that OTC antibacterial soaps are better at preventing illness than washing with plain soap and water.
  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Anyone know if scrubbing with water alone is better or worse than not doing anything? I’ve occasionally ended up in public bathrooms with no soap and I wonder if I should use water or not.

  • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The antibacterial soaps also help create supergerms that can survive the antibiotic used. They should only be used in medical settings when necessary. The overuse of antibacterial soaps and antibiotics are going to help create more pandemics should enough bacteria become antibiotic-resistant.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s very true, but also, the overuse of antibiotics on livestock dwarfs any overuse normal people are doing. We need to make the farmers stop, too.