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Posted on 09/05/2016 4:06:17 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Say goodbye to those "antibacterial" soaps. The Food and Drug Administration says they do little or nothing to make soap work any better and said the industry has failed to prove they're safe.
Companies will have a year to take the ingredients out of the products, the FDA said. They include triclosan and triclocarban. Soap manufacturers will have an extra year to negotiate over other, less commonly used ingredients such as benzalkonium chloride.
Have to completely agree. The additional issue is the people (a great many) who believed that the pervasive use of hand sanitizer and antibacterial soap would protect them, and especially their children, from “germs”. So then an additional effect is a laziness in taking ordinary precautions and teaching children better habits.
Awhile back I got into a small argument with a college-educated young man on Facebook, who insisted that you didn’t need detergent to wash clothes. He did not understand (or believe) the basic principles of how a detergent works.
>When I was a teen, Phisohex was the soap of acne’d girls as well as Noxena cream<
Noxema is still around. Most women use newer moisturizers though.
Safari Explorer: "I'm with Her!"
I’ve told all my kids that I wouldn’t advise them to use antibacterial soaps and wipes on the grandkids as it would build up a resistance to antibiotics if they ever really need it.
My mother told me that about talcum powder fifty years ago.
Love Noxema. Best makeup remover around.
Which actually makes more sense than people think. I remember in high school biology class that plain old liquid Ivory soap (which had just become available on the market at the time) was extremely effective in killing harmful bacteria anyway.
Soap removes dirt and grime, it doesn’t kill anything else.
Proper handwashing technique removes most of the pathogens along with the dirt during the rinse. Antibacterial soaps kill SOME, leaving the rest to grow stronger/more resistant, and most who use antibacterial soaps do NOT use proper handwashing procedure, leaving these stronger bugs on their bodies/sinks/doorhandles/keyboards, etc.
Really, you didn’t know this?
The bottom line is more complex.
1) Ordinary soap will remove about 60% of skin bacteria, mostly by removing the medium in which it lives: contamination, greases and oils including skin oil, and skin crevices.
2) Antibacterial soap is only marginally better, but importantly, some of the more dangerous bacteria are resistant to it. So after washing, your hands might become even more septic.
3) One of the nastier bacteria, Clostridium difficile, is even resistant to hand washing detergent as well as alcohol based dessication.
(4) if something doesn’t *seem right*, call the FDA at this toll-free number M-F, 9-3
I agree. Millions of years of evolution have set the biological rules and balance in the natural world.
Man, as clever as his big brain has made him, shouldn’t presume to know more than God, or think that he has it wihin his technologic purview to outsmart biology. In the long run, nature always wins.
Don’t forget “100 watt light bulbs”. Looks like I’m gonna’ have to build a shelf above the one where they’re stockpiled.
Death for us means heaven. I more concerned with what they have planned before death. Now that is frightening.
Next time you watch that ad, count how many times they use the word “may.”
My guess is that the actual empirical medical evidence is slim and the tort attorneys are fishing for a “victim group” and a gullible jury.
Also, the actress who does those ads does tort search ads for many issues and law groups.
I have used anti-bacterial soap for years without any ill effects. I am grateful to the government for taking them away before I suffered any damage to my hands. I am truly one of the fortunate ones.
Totally agree with your response FWIW.
Some might say we're doin' that.
I’ll assume that you’re correct. However, I’ll assume, as happens with everything else, that the replacements ingredients will have long-term consequences that are unknown and I’d probably not want to risk.
IIRC during the end of the last century anti-bacterials were infused in some plastics. Mostly these ended up being used in children’s toys...very young children’s toys. As these kids grew up, pacifiers, teething rings etc. were simply thrown away. Now, we’ve all been told that plastics in landfills are *forever*. Given this, it seems that our landfills have been turned into petri dishes for the formation of new and improved super bugs and that this evolution of resistant bacteria will continue *forever*.
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