Your secret weapon against COVID-19? yep, it’s soap! With your hands being one of the main ways to transmit the virus thanks to touching objects coated in viral particles and then touching food, your mouth or eyes, it pays to ensure you have good hand hygiene.
And why soap? Well, it contains saponified oils and fats (particularly the ones we make – they’re loaded with plant oils to keep your skin lovely and soft!), and these help to break down the external ‘envelope’ surrounding caronaviruses like COVID and the common cold. It’s like a mini demolition crew every time you wash! Next the soap traps these viral particles, removing them from your hands to be washed away into wastewater for treatment.
And while hand sanitiser can be helpful when you can’t get to a sink, if it’s effective for germ killing it’s often drying to skin – meaning you may be at more risk of contracting illnesses due to tiny tears or cracks in your skin due to dryness.
So keep yourself safe and your hands nice and clean with a good bar of soap – be a hand hygiene superhero today! 🙌
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