Washing your hands with soap, water helps prevent disease, infection
www.fda.gov
There's no evidence OTC antibacterial soaps prevent disease more than washing with plain soap and water. Some antibacterial drugs can do more harm than good.
  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Anyone know if scrubbing with water alone is better or worse than not doing anything? I’ve occasionally ended up in public bathrooms with no soap and I wonder if I should use water or not.

    • DeltaSMC@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      Better than nothing. Water is a great solvent and will get rid of larger particles. Use hot water to dislodge more oily things.

    • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Yes, scrubbing with water is still useful. Besides being a detergent, what soap does is raise skin pH to make it less likely that bacteria can grow on the surface.