[DrCaleb]

2Cdo wrote:

kenmore wrote:

Soap and water is just fine. Its the friction and the rinsing that does the trick.
Hand sanitizers are good when soap and water is not available, but you should still wash your hands when you can get to a sink. Anti bacterial soap is over used and is causing problems with natural body flora. We need some natural protection.
Its like the over use of antibiotics. Kids need to play in the dirt.

Kenny you shock me! We finally have something we agree on.

And he's completely right!

Quote:

They will now be able to answer the disapproving tuts of their more fastidious friends by pointing to research which gives biological backing to the old adage that the more germs a child is exposed to during early childhood, the better their immune system in later life

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/ ... une-system

[2Cdo]

DrCaleb wrote:

2Cdo wrote:

kenmore wrote:

Soap and water is just fine. Its the friction and the rinsing that does the trick.
Hand sanitizers are good when soap and water is not available, but you should still wash your hands when you can get to a sink. Anti bacterial soap is over used and is causing problems with natural body flora. We need some natural protection.
Its like the over use of antibiotics. Kids need to play in the dirt.

Kenny you shock me! We finally have something we agree on.

And he's completely right!

Quote:

They will now be able to answer the disapproving tuts of their more fastidious friends by pointing to research which gives biological backing to the old adage that the more germs a child is exposed to during early childhood, the better their immune system in later life

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/ ... une-system

I've been saying that for years and I'm not a scientist! Anti-bacterial soap kills up to 99% of germs, unfortunately leaving the stronger germs to live and replicate. Hospitals are seeing more infections that are harder to defeat than even a couple of years ago due to our obsession with living "germ free".

At this rate it won't be terrorists that end up killing us all in some horrific manner, it will be little tiny germs.

[Proculation]

raydan wrote:

No thanks...

HAZARDOUS IDENTIFICATION
INFORMATION: POISON! DANGER! MAY BE FATAL IF SWALLOWED. HARMFUL IF
INHALED. VAPOUR HARMFUL. FLAMMABLE! AFFECTS CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. MAY CAUSE BLINDNESS. CANNOT BE MADE NON-POISONOUS. CAUSES IRRITATION TO SKIN, EYES AND RESPIRATORY TRACT. MAY AFFECT LIVER, BLOOD, REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.

Humm.. Hand sanitizers usually use ethanol: the active ingredient of beer and vodka.
Actually, alcohol causes all you said.

[DrCaleb]

Proculation wrote:

raydan wrote:

No thanks...

HAZARDOUS IDENTIFICATION
INFORMATION: POISON! DANGER! MAY BE FATAL IF SWALLOWED. HARMFUL IF
INHALED. VAPOUR HARMFUL. FLAMMABLE! AFFECTS CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. MAY CAUSE BLINDNESS. CANNOT BE MADE NON-POISONOUS. CAUSES IRRITATION TO SKIN, EYES AND RESPIRATORY TRACT. MAY AFFECT LIVER, BLOOD, REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.

Humm.. Hand sanitizers usually use ethanol: the active ingredient of beer and vodka.
Actually, alcohol causes all you said.

It might be denatured alcohol - ethanol + nasty stuff so you can't drink it (and it's not subject to booze taxes).

Which is what I suspect, as there is nothing about nudity or table dancing.

[BellaVega]

I love germs. The more the merrier. I think if we become too clean, our immune systems will be compromised and we'll end up dying from the simple cold. Well maybe not that bad but yeah, when I was little we'd play in the dirt, share drinking cups with each other, and stick our dirty fingers in our mouths making faces in class. We didn't die, we didn't get seriously sick, we survived.

[Guy_Fawkes]

[ASLplease]

I thought I heard that antibacterial soap uses insecticides. That cant be good