What’s the difference between scrubbing with hand soap and water versus a quick water rinse? They both wash away whatever might be on your hands, right? You’re probably better off just using hand sanitizer to kill everything, right? People regularly fall back on this reasoning when they’re in a hurry, but unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
Soap Base Basics
It all comes down to the chemistry of how our bodies work and how soap works. Our skin is a powerful organ in defending against germs, but it can’t keep germs out as effectively when it becomes dry and cracked. Our bodies produce oils to keep our skin healthy and hydrated.
While those oils help prevent our skin from drying out, they create a very sticky surface where bacteria and germs can cling. You probably know that water and oil don’t mix, and so when you wash your hands with only water, you aren’t washing off those contaminated hand oils. The germs are still there, waiting to be transferred to the next object you touch. That could be a doorknob, your lunch, or another person’s hand.
Soap is a unique chemical formula called a surfactant. While the name might throw you off, the way it works is simple and pretty cool!
Think of soap molecules as a kind of magnet. One side attracts water molecules, the other side oils. When you wash your hands using soap and water, you’re allowing the soap to lather up, attach to those surface oils on your hands, and then get washed down the drain.
Germ-X recently stepped into the hand soap category with a new line of liquid hand soap products that are high-quality anti-bacterial and dermatologist-tested. Developed in the United States, they include fragrance-free, citrus peel scent and waterfall scent options in16-ounce pump dispenser bottles.
The Best Solution Is a Mix of Hand Soap and Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer
Understanding how to best keep yourself healthy via proper hand-hygiene methods is half the battle. Your best strategy is to wash your hands when soap and water are available and use hand sanitizer when they are not.
The other half of the battle is arming yourself with high-quality anti-bacterial hand soaps and alcohol-based hand sanitizer products. If you want habits that will stick in getting disease-causing germs to… well…un-stick, then you want the wide variety of hygiene products from Germ-X products.
Vi-Jon specializes in developing effective products for good hand hygiene. In addition to Germ-X anti-bacterial liquid hand soaps, Germ-X products include hand sanitizer gels, wipes and hand sanitizer sprays. The hand sanitizer formula contains a combination of moisturizers and vitamin E, and USP-grade alcohol, and can kill 99.99 percent of many common harmful germs in as little as 15 seconds. With more than 20 years of experience delivering the highest quality hygiene products, Vi-Jon gives you peace of mind knowing that high quality is literally in your hands.
