⚠️Read before using hand sanitizers

I wrote a post about why we should stop using antibacterial hand sanitizers and hand soaps. Of course, this was pre-COVID and so when the CDC recommended that everyone use hand sanitizers during COVID and that my kids would be required to use them during school hours, I did extra research. Here’s a continuation of further research on hand sanitizers and in context with COVID-19.

If you didn’t read the first blog post, I suggest you read it first here.

We have been told by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to wash our hands to mitigate the spread of the Coronavirus. Good advice. Washing hands for at least 20 seconds with quality soaps not only kills and stops viral infections, it helps remove the leftover viruses left on our hands when rinsing off. But when we don’t have access to soap, the recommendation to use hand sanitizer is questionable.

Hand sanitizers may kill surface level bacteria but if its locked away in mucus or dirt or grease, then the hand sanitizer will not get to it. How many of us cough or sneeze in our hands and then use hand sanitizer?

Sorry, the mucus will make the sanitizer ineffective.

If your hand sanitizer has Triclosan (disinfectant that kills 99% of microbes), bacteria and other microorganisms get resistant to it and then get stronger against other antibiotics. This is what…