Hand Soap VS Hand sanitizer

[LS1Goat]

no they are not. While nearly all soaps kill a large amount of bacteria...there is a difference between regular soap and anti-bacterial soap. A true anti bacterial has different active ingredients there to attack more bacteria than a regular soap.

yes, they are. i guess you skipped high school chemistry class. regular old ordinary soap has acids and a base. they bind and repel like substances. bacteria, for example, gets suspended and rinsed off.

"antibacterial" soaps are a selling point. after each run or general transport, we would sometimes use handclens foam, but usually just regular soap and water for hand washing.

[Bobby C 01TA]

sanitizer may kill the germs but when u wash your hands with soap, if your hands were previously dirty, you will see that crap come out of your hands.. Soap FTW!

[Ruffdaddy]

all soaps are anti-bacterial

no they are not. While nearly all soaps kill a large amount of bacteria...there is a difference between regular soap and anti-bacterial soap. A true anti bacterial has different active ingredients there to attack more bacteria than a regular soap.

[Kenny_Stang]

I use both if they are available.

[Unicorn Jeff]

I haven't been legitimate sick in years except for your occasional cold.

[Sgt Beavis]

I use soap. Frankly I think one of the reasons I haven't been sick since childhood is because I have built up resistance to infection by actually getting sick as a child. I do wash my hands all the time but just with soap. I haven't even gotten a flu shot since I got out of the Army over a decade ago. I don't remember ever taking a sick day.

[John -- '02 HAWK]

use both. A lot of soaps aren't anti bacterial

all soaps are anti-bacterial

[Treasure Chest]

I'm a soap and warm water kinda girl, then again, every time I see this:

I can't help but think, "She'd be sexier if she actually washed her damn hair."

[HarrisonTX]

And has his wife carry a smaller version in her purse just in case.

This is acceptable practice.

Where is the clicky for BOTH. My living and work environment uses a lot of port-a-jons, obviously no sinks to use soap there. My main bathroom in my office does have a sink so I use soap but use hand sanitizer throughout the day just as a precaution. Afghanistan is a dirty motherfucker.

Man, Iraq got me to where I am today. The mandatory hand washing stations before you enter the DFAC changed my life. I cannot sit down at a table and eat without first washing my hands. I'm always kinda shocked I'm usually the only person that washes his hands. I even say "Ive gotta wash my hands"

I'm not OCD or anything, I just think about all the stuff I've touched since the last hand wash.

[Leah]

ELVIS stores a gallon jug of it in his truck and goes through one in two weeks time.

And has his wife carry a smaller version in her purse just in case.

[Geor!]

ELVIS stores a gallon jug of it in his truck and goes through one in two weeks time.

[LS1Goat]

soap, of course.

[UserX]

so you're one of them nasty bastards that thinks touching your dick doesn't merit a hand washing...?

I think that hand sanitizer is just as effective at killing germs.

[KBScobravert]

so you're one of them nasty bastards that thinks touching your dick doesn't merit a hand washing...?

You heard about the difference between a doctor and a mechanic?



The mechanic washes his hands first.

[KBScobravert]

Where is the clicky for BOTH. My living and work environment uses a lot of port-a-jons, obviously no sinks to use soap there. My main bathroom in my office does have a sink so I use soap but use hand sanitizer throughout the day just as a precaution. Afghanistan is a dirty motherfucker.