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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The most efficient way to get rid of things is burn it. But that is rarely an option.
So then we use less effective but still very good. Bleach, alcohol, these things work almost as good as fire, and won’t damage many surfaces.
But bleach or alcohol on our body can hurt us, so then the next best thing is soap, which is mostly a mechanical action to wash things away.
And to add to this, soap itself can be very destructive to us too, since one component is lye, and that’s worse than bleach on our skin. But it is in small quantities in the soap we use.
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