Your analysis is correct. Regular soap is fine for washing our hands - it is a surfactant that reduces surface tension, allowing water to rinse away dirt (and, this, germs). What is left can AND SHOULD, be dealt with by our immune system. This benefits us in 2 ways: first, it strengthens our immune systems; second, it doesn’t strengthen the resistor bacteria.
This is long overdue. Regarding “government interference,” it is well within the FDA’s mandate to stop misleading advertising related to health matters. Frankly, I wonder what took them so long.
Corrections:
1) and, THUS, germs
2) second, it doesn’t strengthen the RESISTANCE OF bacteria.
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.
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.