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.
I was trying to buy some at target about a month ago and there were only like 2 options that even claimed to be soap. The rest were “hand wash” and all of it was weird generic brands I’d never heard of. I haven’t used it yet but I do not feel confident with that purchase at all.
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.
*I only ask this as I knew someone who claimed to be an inventor of this and well…I listened quite a bit on the whole bit. I liked them a lot, but we sort of parted ways at some point. But I thought they were good people. I just think about this…chemical compound (I guess you’d call it) from time to time because of them. But also see it sometimes listed on things nowadays.
(In the US) bans on some of the major AB chemicals went into effect in 2016, so that’s helped cut back on what’s on the shelves. Manufacturers have had to reformulate or just stop.
More public awareness is still very much necessary though
I’ve seen less and less anti-bacterial soap available at retail anyway.
I was trying to buy some at target about a month ago and there were only like 2 options that even claimed to be soap. The rest were “hand wash” and all of it was weird generic brands I’d never heard of. I haven’t used it yet but I do not feel confident with that purchase at all.
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.
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.
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.
hocl?
*I only ask this as I knew someone who claimed to be an inventor of this and well…I listened quite a bit on the whole bit. I liked them a lot, but we sort of parted ways at some point. But I thought they were good people. I just think about this…chemical compound (I guess you’d call it) from time to time because of them. But also see it sometimes listed on things nowadays.
First result detective but it looks mostly like triclosan C12.H7.Cl3.O2. hocl appears to be used more for water purification than cleansing agent.
Covid probably helped sell a few extra bottles. Now that concern is lessening people want their hands to smell like cinnamon.
(In the US) bans on some of the major AB chemicals went into effect in 2016, so that’s helped cut back on what’s on the shelves. Manufacturers have had to reformulate or just stop.
More public awareness is still very much necessary though