Sunday, December 20, 2009

Does soap kill bacteria or just wash it off?

It just washes it off.





Alcohol-based gels kill bacteria, as well as some anti-bacterial soaps, but I'd recommend against using them. They encourage the bacteria to develop immunities against the anti-bacterial agents and make them even harder to destroy.Does soap kill bacteria or just wash it off?
If you get anti-bacterial soap I think it can kill up to 99.9% of Germs, but I'm not an expert. But yeah, I'm sure that most soaps kill the germs. Jowever, I know for sure that purell and germ-x and those other hand sanitizers do. Plus, I just looked at my soap bottle, and it says ';to reduce germs'; not kill them, so maybe they do just wash them off

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