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[Buckeye McFrog]

Became a faithful 20 second soap-and-water guy after seeing this proven on Mythbusters years ago.

[lgjhn23]

Dawn dish detergent dissolves fat/grease and probably works pretty good as a hand soap for this, but it will dry your hands out quickly.

[TexasGator]

“You can’t, even for a million dollars, get a drug for the coronavirus – but your grandmother’s bar of soap kills the virus. “

Eat a bar of soap. There will be someone out there that will read this and believe it.

[forgotten man]

I cannot find any hand sanitizer. I will carry a bottle of water and a small bar of soap with me.

[DAC21]

OK, good to know but is there a common ingredient in soap that causes this breakdown of the virus? Soap is marketed as Goats Milk, Oatmeal and so on. I doubt those type ingredients make viruses coil in fear.

[BenLurkin]

"What is this 'soap' of which you speak?"

[Candor7]

Good article, thanks for posting it.

[Vaduz]

Soap murders bad guy humans live good news.

[Grampa Dave]

Hand washing instructions in pharmaceutical clean rooms:

[lastchance]

Soap (not detergent bars) is a salt made by combining an acid (the fatty acids found in fats and oils) with a base (sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide for liquid soap.

You can make it at home with drain cleaner labeled 100% sodium hydroxide and olive oil.(this is true Castille soap) But lye is a corrosive and you must wear eye protection, nitrile or other chemical resistant gloves, closed toe shoes and protect your clothing.

There is a lot of information available on soap making. But please follow safety instructions including to always pour the lye into your liquid not the other way around.

[ConservativeMind]

This can’t be. Only alcohol wipes and liquid matter! /snark

We’ve had no soap, detergent, or bleach hoarding articles because there has been no such behavior and no such “monopoly” “hurting” us.

[JubJub]

Bookmark

[Flaming Conservative]

I had my training as a nurse in the 90’s. How I wish I had done my training in the 60’s or 70’s! Nurses trained back then, and earlier, had things like DON’T TOUCH YOUR FACE!, drilled into them by no-nonsense instructors, who like old fashioned drill sergeants, brooked no laxity, and penalized offenders by giving them extra duties, etc., so students would remember the lesson. Yes, we were taught not to touch our faces, but I know it didn’t stick as well as it did to the old-time nurses. Fortunately, good hand washing stuck like glue to me.

[dainbramaged]

This past Friday I had a CT scan at a large hospital in nearby Olympia, where you have to sign in at the radiology desk via touch screen computer. No human there, just the monitor and a big jug of hand sanitizer. Rather ironic, I muttered aloud. Spoke to three different people while waiting, all pro- Trump.
I washed my hands about five times during my visit, went home and ran thru the sheep dip then showered twice.

[Rio]

Is water temperature important?

[JayNorth]

I always enjoy reading The Guardian paywall garbage notification. Surely makes me want to contribute to their worthy cause. /sarcasm

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Wow! Very fair and balanced, The Guardian.

[dennisw]

useful!

[AppyPappy]

It stands to reason then that the virus can live on a pump dispenser but not on a bar of soap

[daniel1212]

So why does soap work so well on the Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? The short story: because the virus is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. Soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and dies – or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive. The slightly longer story is that most viruses consist of three key building blocks: ribonucleic acid (RNA), proteins and lipids. A virus-infected cell makes lots of these building blocks, which then spontaneously self-assemble to form the virus. Critically, there are no strong covalent bonds holding these units together, which means you do not necessarily need harsh chemicals to split those units apart. When an infected cell dies, all these new

Thanks.