Excessive hand-washing and slathering on of moisture-stripping hand sanitizer leaves this vulnerable stretch of skin perceptively rough, dry, and irritated—and at a significantly higher risk of ...

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But unlike hand washing, which removes all of the gunk that accumulates on our skin, including infectious agents, sanitizer leaves the disinfected microbes and everything else behind.

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When it comes to washing your hands, 20 is the magic number… seconds that is. If in doubt, that’s as long as it’ll take you to hum along to Happy Birthday twice in a row. The Roya… ...

There are 30-second hand-washing trials that don’t reduce the microbial load at all … and ones with a reduction greater than 4-log. The best of the 120-second trials doesn’t break 3-log.

Alton Brown uses science and demonstration to explain why hand-washing is more effective than hand sanitizer to remove bacteria and viruses. ... It leaves the virus "mostly dead," Brown explained.