Better to get your own hand sanitizer. I buy the large bottle and keep refilling the smaller ones. Cheaper that way too.
What are they talking about?? - BARS of soap, like I haven’t seen in public restrooms for 20 years? - or the soap dispensers that are in EVERY public restroom now?
If so, HOW can the soap in the dispensers be unsanitary?
Well, good thing Momma taught me how NOT to pee on my hands in the first place...
I like the automatic motion sensor soap, water and towel machines and the restroom doors that open out.
NEVER touch the flusher knob with your hands. Use your forearm or elbow. Always use your shirt tail to open the door as you leave. The towel dispensers can collect germ, too. When you are out of the bathroom, clean your hands with your own hand sanitizer. (Why public rest rooms aren’t required to put in the self-flushing toilets, blow-dryers, and door handles you can push agains, I’ll never know.)
BS flag.
I haven’t seen a bar of soap in a public restroom in the last 20 years, and it is simply impossible for fecal matter to be transmitted inside of a sealed liquid soap container by someone hitting the dispensor.
doesn't sound kosher....
besides, its not the soap that washes your hands....its the running water while you wash your hands, and physically removing any contaminants.....using paper towels brusquely helps further to wipe away any contaminants...
people think soap sterilizes your hands but it doesn't....
and someday, they'll find that repeated washing your hands with the alcohol soap is only making germs more adaptable...and we less resistant.....
People are so paranoid about germs, especially with children, that they never allow their immune systems to fully develop.
You’re immune system is like a muscle, Use It or Lose It!
It’s the dispenser not the soap. People have to touch the dispenser to get to the soap within. I guess most of them do not prewash their hands before doing this. I’m sensing an agenda here. Common sense will tell you that once you use the soap and rinse and dry any germs from the dispenser knob will be gone. Did they test the hands of people who had just used the soap?
What’s the big deal, you aren’t touching the dispenser after you wash your hands. You touch it before you wash your hands. That’s why it’s contaminated.
Sounds to me like a study to get people to buy hand sanitizer, which is actually worse for your hands because it kills the good bacteria that you are supposed to have.
Hey, ladies, this is anecdotal but I’d estimate that only 60% of men wash their hands before exiting the bathroom.
Oh there is no such thing as dirty soap unless they mean a bar of soap that someone did not rinse off after using. But soap itself is not dirty especially liquid soap in a container.
i like germs ... and i like to spread ‘em around!
I caught ‘em from liberals and then I shake hands with RINOs.
Yes, the BS meter is screaming on this one.
Remember those cloth towel machines in mens bathrooms next to the pay toilets?
There is considerable deception in this article. As background:
1) Ordinary water will remove about 60% of the bacterial contamination on hands. This is because most contamination is found in visible contamination and skin oil.
2) Using ordinary soap will remove about 90% contamination, because it washes off both visible contamination, greases and skin oil.
3) Antibacterial soap only performs marginally better than ordinary soap. But again, it’s purpose is to eliminate the visible contamination the bacteria lives in, not really to kill the bacteria themselves.
4) Hand sanitizer is best when there is no visible contamination on the hands. It must as a minimum be 60% alcohol. Most are 62%. But it can be augmented with more alcohol up to about 75-80%, safely. Any more than that, and the shock might put bacteria into a “protected mode”, safe from alcohol.
So the bottom line is that even using contaminated soap is better if your hands have visible contamination. Then once the visible stuff is gone, dry your hands and use hand sanitizer.
Anyway, I eschew them for the most part and carry hand sanitizer and wipes to clean my hands and take care of business at home or in the nurturing confines of nature's own bountiful accommodations.