– If you have to have specific ingredients in your disinfectant wipes/sprays to clean off unwanted contamination by health organizations – why is anything under the category of ‘hand soap’ considered effective for washing your hands?

Question

– If you have to have specific ingredients in your disinfectant wipes/sprays to clean off unwanted contamination by health organizations – why is anything under the category of ‘hand soap’ considered effective for washing your hands?

In: Biology

Answer 1

the outside of this virus is made of fatty oil. Breaking up oils is pretty much the property that makes something a soap. if something is any sort of soap at all it’s going to tear up the virus no special chemicals needed.