SC - OT Creativity Changes

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Hi all from Anne-Marie, your friendly neighborhood degreed Microbiologist
:)

re: antibacterial soaps.
Bacteria are easily spread from hand to hand, surface to surface. They are
killed by any soap. Antibacterial soap has extra stuff added (actually, the
term "antibacterial soap" is kinda like "Mt Fujiama", ie a redundancy).
Bacteria are even easily removed from hands with a good scrubbing of hot
water alone (they wash off pretty easily). If you really want to zap bugs,
bleach is universal for all kinds of things including viruses.

I dont know as I'd recommend using antibacterial soap on your body as you
should normally have SOME bacteria, these keep the really nasty foriegn
cooties in their places. Like what happens when you take antibiotics and
end up on Monostat... You're not likely to breed a special resistant strain
of anything that could take over the world, but you could end up with some
nasty rashes.

Not all germs are bad...germs are what help us digest our food, and keep
our skin at the right pH and mean we have cows and cheese and beer
and....:) When we get into trouble is when bugs get out of balance, or when
the toxins they make get to dangerous levels.

My kitchen has a bar of whatever soap i have around by the sink and I nag
:). I use the antibacterial hand gel when camping, however, when my
preferred Ivory soap (no perfumes or other wierd stuff) and hot water are
not available.

- --Anne-Marie

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