[Don W]

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?

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I had the idea that soap destroyed the lipid cell membrane of bacteria, causing those cells to lyse.

I was mostly questioning the idea that killing anything less than 100% of the bacteria leads inevitably to super-resistant bacteria. The world is more complex than that. The stronger bacteria will continue to exist and multiply regardless of what happens to the weaker bacteria.