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

Sanitizer doesn’t ‘clean’ your hands. If you have dirt all over them and sanitize, then you have “relatively” germ free, dirty hands.