Wash Your Hands With Soap

The soap helps germs slip off your skin as you rub your hands together.

Wash your hands with soap.

Remember to scrub all surfaces including the backs of your hands wrists between your fingers and under your fingernails. In general both handwashing with soap and water and hand sanitizer when practiced used correctly are highly effective at killing most germs and pathogens. If you re in control of the soap you re using you may want to pick a liquid or gel over foaming pump soap. You can tell if the sanitizer contains at least 60 alcohol by looking at the product label.

Wet your hands with clean running water either warm or cold. Washing your hands with soap and water or using hand sanitizer. Soap kills the coronavirus by destroying the outer shell that protects it. In a 2011 study that compared handwashing with and without soap researchers concluded that while soap is highly preferable reducing e.

Washing hands with soap and water is the best way to get rid of germs in most situations. Rub your hands vigorously for at least 20 seconds. Apply soap and lather well. Dry your hands with a clean towel or air dry them.

It s important to wash your hands before and after.