Wash Your Hands With Soap and Away From the Virus

Blog   2017-11-20      1,780    0

Soap can effectively remove some of the dirt, such as dust, dirt, and blood stains, that are attached to small cracks in the skin. The solution should be between 60% and 95% of the hand sanitizer.

The best way to wash your hands is to remove the dirt with soap and then use hand sanitizer. When using hand sanitizer, also is not the more the better, every time when used according to the drop is enough, after the hand rub repeatedly, to irrigate with flowing water for 15 seconds or more, so you can put hand sanitizer thoroughly cleaned. While a lot of hand sanitizer contains skin care ingredients, washing your hands frequently during dry winter can still lead to dry hand skin, so apply a special moisturizing hand cream after washing your hands.

Hand sanitizer, wipes or soap?

There are many small grooves and gaps in the skin, removing dirt from them, and washing with soap is the best and most thorough. However, the amount of surfactant in hand sanitizer and wipes is small, and it is difficult to remove dirt and soil attached to small cracks in the skin.

Of course, antiseptic wipes and hand sanitizer and soaps have different components and functions, and do not replace each other. The chemical composition of soap is the simplest, the adverse reaction is the least, as long as the use is proper, like the water wash clean, remove the bacterium with the best effect, the skin also won’t have too big injury.

According to the research results, washing hands with soap has saved millions of children’s lives. Handwashing also prevents skin infections, eye infections, intestinal parasites, SARS and avian flu, and is beneficial to the health of cancer patients and people living with HIV. So get into the habit of cutting your nails and washing your hands before and after meals.

Wet wipes are no substitute for hand washing.

In recent years, the use of wet paper towels has become more and more frequent, and has even become part of the “home travel essentials”. Hygiene is a good thing, but you can’t rely too much on wet wipes. Wet paper towels can’t replace washing your hands.

Wet paper towel is more or less chemical additive, not everyone is applicable, especially skin sensitive crowd, had better not use.

In addition, when using wet paper towels, kept wipe the surface of the skin, and may change microenvironment on the surface of the skin, make skin surface lipid water ratio, epidermis cutin cell falls off and break down, it is bad for your skin health.

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