Without stepping deeply into current events, I’d love some answers!
I spent the day cleaning (as I suspect many others did as well).
For personal hygiene, the guidance is to wash hands with soap and water for a minimum of 20 seconds. Soap is effective, especially when used well. I get that.
However, there’s lots of mixed information about the best way to clean hard surfaces like countertops and doorknobs.
If I simply scrub and rinse those surfaces with a soapy solution, would they somehow be less clean than if I scrubbed them and then disinfected with a bleach solution, peroxide, or some other disinfectant?
Just trying to stay clean and safe over here… thanks!
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Soap and water is fine for hard surfaces. In fact, a lot of disinfectants do a poor job sanitizing surfaces if the surfaces haven’t already been scrubbed beforehand. The scrubbing with soap takes off most of the stuff that holds bacteria there, the disinfectants kill anything that got left behind. Surfaces are also more forgiving with harsh cleaners than hands. As others have said already, bleaching your hands constantly is gonna be a bad time.
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