How does liquid hand soap stack up aginst Hand Sanatizer or Bar soap?

Im starting school, and i hear that a dorm is a breeding ground for germs, so im wondering what soap would be best to keep diseases, and bacterica out.





thanks!How does liquid hand soap stack up aginst Hand Sanatizer or Bar soap?
Ok. Here is the low down on soaps. Soaps (both liquid and bar) rely on the mechanical scrubbing of you hands to remove germs. The soap acts as a detergent that breaks down water tension to ';make water wetter'; This makes it hard for bacteria to ';stick'; to you hands.





Most hand sanitizers use alcohol to kill germs. Alcohol is an eeffective means of killing bacteria but hand sanitizers are not 100% effective. Hand sanitizers are a good way to quickly clean your hands in a hurry when you don't have access to hand soap. Washing you hands with soap is the preferred way to clean you hands. That is why surgeons vigorously scrub and wash their hands before surgery and not dunk thier hands in alcohol.





As far as the effectiveness between bar and hand soap. As far as I know, there isn't much different in the performance between bar and liquid.





Just a word about antibiotic liquid soap. The active ingredient in most liquid soap is Triclosan. In the mid- to late-90s, Triclosan was thrown into any and every consumer product to make it ';antibacterial'; (soaps, plastics, even steering wheels). This misuse and overuse of triclosan has the potential to select for triclosan resistant bacteria. One of my former professors who is now head of National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring Systmes (NARMS) for the FDA is a staunch opponent of the overuse of Triclosan. When he would question the effectiveness of Triclosan, the reply of the industries using triclosan was always ';We do not make any claimof the effectiveness of Triclosan against bacteria';. Ok, then why does your product say ';Antibacterial';?





I am not trying to make you take a postion on Triclosan but you, and the public in general, should be aware of the contreversy of the use of it in everyday products.How does liquid hand soap stack up aginst Hand Sanatizer or Bar soap?
Just get some good liquid soap. Ensure that it is anti-bacterial and hypoallergenic.





Soap is not good, it sits there soaking in water. Sometime it could breed bacteria. Use the liquid soap.





Also you might want to get some Hand sanitizer as well just keep it in your room around somewhere 'hand'-y and use it when you touch something you think or know is not clean.





~ M.R.D
This is simple; use both soap and sanitizer. The sanitizer kills most bacteria. You need the soap because the sanitizer does not kill C-Diff and spores. The friction of rubbing your hands with soap washes off spores.


So keep your hands washed and use sanitizer in between washing.
I am a microbiologist. At work, I use anti-microbial soaps, since I am working with microbes. At home, I use organic soaps. I search out dish soaps and cleaners that are not antibacterial. The antibacterial craze is at best a waste of money, and at worst a danger to your health. Hand sanitizer should only be used in places where handwashing is not possible. ';Germs'; are not all bad things, and these products do not affect viruses or fungi. I've included a good article about this problem.





Dorms do have a lot of disease causing micro-organisms. Wash your hands often, try to avoid putting your fingers in your mouth, or rubbing your eyes a lot. Eat right (or as best as you can), don't share water bottles and such, stay away from people who are coughing. And try to get some sleep. It's really more the college lifestyle that allows the diseases to be spread that is the problem.
Don't use a hand sanitizer. When you use that stuff it actually gets rid of the good germs on your skin and opens you up to getting even more germs. I would suggest an antibacterial liquid soap. They tend to work quite well.