I know this to be true, and wash my hands often. My son prefers hand sanitizer and will get annoyed when I ask him to wash his hands, despite me telling him its better than hand sanitizer. He asked me why and honestly, I dont know. Killing 99.9% of germs seems like pretty good odds but its something to do with the scrubbing motion, right?
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Believe it or not there are good germs you are killing as well. You will eventually cause yourself to develop staph infections if you use sanitizer frequently. Unless you are dealing with an absolute urgent need to rid yourself of a pathogen, it would be wise to simply wash your hands to avoid evolution of a super bug on your own skin.
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