If hand sanitizer kills 99.9% of germs, what stops us from using that all of the time instead of hand washing?

Question

If hand sanitizer kills 99.9% of germs, what stops us from using that all of the time instead of hand washing?

In: Biology

Answer 1

If I accidentally get dogshit on my hand, I don’t want to just have sanitized dogshit on my hand. I want soap and water to wash it away.

There’s more dogshit out in the world than we want to know about.