The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60 percent alcohol. You should put enough sanitizer on your hands to cover all surfaces.

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And yet the hand sanitizer wasn't even as effective as washing with water alone, which inactivated the virus within 30 seconds. Handwashing also removes debris.

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Hand sanitizers can kill influenza virus, but they don’t kill other viruses that are also around, including norovirus or winter vomiting disease. Washing hands with soap and water removes all ...

Hand soap kills bacterias just like hand sanitizer does, but you also wash away the dead bacteria remnants with water afterward. Hand soap also cuts grease and remove contaminants from the skin in ...

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“You can have all the hand sanitizer and soap you want, but unless you’re washing correctly or using it the right way, you may still have virus on your hands,” she said.

Ultimately, you should be using hand sanitizer to help supplement rather than replace regular hand washing. Lather up with soap and water when you can, but when it's not accessible, hand sanitizer ...

What is more, any soap and water combo also outdoes hand sanitizer at removing certain germs, including Clostridium difficile (aka C. Diff), a life-threatening germ that can damage the colon and ...