Does Your Hand Sanitizer Effectively Kill Coronavirus? 10 Things You Might Not Know About.

10 Things you didn’t know about hand santizers:

1. Hand sanitizer is good, but it can’t beat soap and water. Washing your hands with soap and water should always be your first choice.
2. If you’re not in a place where washing your hands is possible, hand sanitizer can be used instead.
3. But, not all hand sanitizers work against coronavirus.
4. There are two main types of hand sanitizers: alcohol-based and alcohol-free.
5. Alcohol is effective at killing enveloped viruses, including the coronavirus. Your hand sanitizer needs to be at least 60% alcohol in order to viruses like coronavirus.
6. Using hand sanitizer with alcohol more than 75% would dry your skin out very quickly.
7. Using hand sanitizer way too frequently can cause irritation by drying out the skin and removing natural oils.
8. The dry and damaged hand becomes a hotbed for disease viruses and increase the risk of viruses entering your body.
9. So hand sanitizers, like most things, should be used in moderation – and only when handwashing is not an option.
10. Soap is the most effective killer of COVID-19. Soap kills germs, binds them, and helps physically remove them, with the water, off your skin and down the drain leaving the skin clean, unlike hand sanitizers.
11.  But, it is effective if you soap your hands for at least 20 seconds.
12. Any simple soap does the work “As long as you give it a little bit of time, it will do its job.”

Sanitizer might feel like a modern-day, scientific, and more clinical upgrade to soap, but if you are already near a sink,
the best choice is to wash your hands with soap and hot water.

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Keep yourself & others safe!

Reference:
https://www.businessinsider.com/things-to-know-about-hand-sanitizer-to-protect-against-coronavirus-2020-3?IR=T#5-does-hand-sanitizer-expire-5