With flu season fast approaching, we don't blame you for taking every precaution against those rotten, make-you-sick-like-a-dog-for-days germs. So you get busy washing your hands every chance you can with antibacterial soap - it sounds more effective than regular soap, right? Not true. A new study published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy has definitively found no difference in the effectiveness of killing germs between antibacterial and non-antibacterial soap.
In both petri dishes and on human hands, the researchers found that triclosan was only effective at killing bacteria if the microorganisms soaked for over nine hours. And since you won't be washing your hands for that long, you might as well skip the antibacterial soap. It offers people a false sense of prevention against germs, when really the best thing you can do is to use regular soap with warm water, and make sure you're scrubbing every part of your hand - back, front, and under fingernails - for at least 20 seconds (sing the A, B, Cs). Plus, antibacterial soap contains triclosan, which studies have found has been linked to antibiotic resistance, impaired muscle function, and an increase in susceptibility to seasonal allergies. Triclosan could even be a carcinogenic. All the more reason to stick to the regular stuff for good.
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