Washing hands with an antibacterial soap was no more effective at reducing bacterial levels or preventing illness than washing with ordinary soap, researchers said.Furthermore, the soaps, most of which contain the antimicrobial triclosan, produced worrisome antibiotic cross-resistance among different species of bacteria, according to a study reported in a supplement to the Sept. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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It's going to take more than one study to change how people wash their hands after years of aggressive marketing by the soap industry.
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Triclosan also seeps into your highly absorbent skin and it could potentially react with the chemicals in the sewage AND when Triclosan is ejected into our waterways it is hit by sunlight and decomposed into DIOXEN aka the deadliest man made chemical
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