Wash Your Hands With Soap

Washing your hands with regular soap and running water is a highly effective way to stop the spread of germs and bacteria including covid 19.

Wash your hands with soap.

If soap and water are not readily available you can use an alcohol based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60 alcohol. Rub your hands vigorously for at least 20 seconds. In a 2011 study that compared handwashing with and without soap researchers concluded that while soap is highly preferable reducing e. Apply soap and lather well.

Remember to scrub all surfaces including the backs of your hands wrists between your fingers and under your fingernails. If you re in control of the soap you re using you may want to pick a liquid or gel over foaming pump soap. Coli bacteria to less than 8 percent on hands washing. You can tell if the sanitizer contains at least 60 alcohol by looking at the product label.

In general both handwashing with soap and water and hand sanitizer when practiced used correctly are highly effective at killing most germs and pathogens. Washing your hands with soap and water or using hand sanitizer. Wet your hands with clean running water either warm or cold. Washing hands with soap and water is the best way to get rid of germs in most situations.

It s important to wash your hands before and after.