if a hand sanitizer or soap kills up to 99.9% of germs, does lathering your hands with huge amounts of soap make any difference vs a simple pump or two of soap?

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It’s important to remember that while the marketing blurb says “99.9% of germs,” that doesn’t mean it kills 99.9% of *all* germs. They only need to show that it works on a specific subset of germs in order to make that claim.

What’s more: https://xkcd.com/1161/