How do soap and sanitizer differ in how they work? Which on is better in situations like now and why?
In: Chemistry
If you are talking about how they affect bacteria, soap doesn’t kill bacteria but does help to break up the biofilm that bacteria lays down to protect itself and hold itself on surfaces. So soaked washes away bacteria provided you use water to rinse it away.
Sanitizers like alcohol do directly kill bacteria and viruses, but they don’t necessarily work against biofilms they might be protecting those microbes from the sanitizer.
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