{"id":3180,"date":"2013-02-08T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/office-ink.ontimesupplies.com\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:08:49","slug":"does-natural-hand-sanitizer-work-as-well-as-purell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/does-natural-hand-sanitizer-work-as-well-as-purell\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Natural Hand Sanitizer work as well as Purell?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hand Sanitizers and Soaps Put to the Test\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OMZZIlkkPZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Natural hand sanitizers<\/strong> have proliferated the market in recent years. But do alcohol-free hand sanitizers work as well as traditional alcohol based products like <strong>Purell Sanitizer<\/strong>? Research says no, as demonstrated in this ABC News Report. \u00a0Alcohol does a better job of breaking down bacteria and cleaning your hands.\u00a0The most effective hand sanitzers are at least 60%. Make sure you use enough &#8212; your hands should take at least 15 seconds to dry after using hand sanitizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recommended Hand Sanitizers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these hand sanitizers are at leat 60% alchohol:<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><strong><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Purell Instant Hand Sanitizer | OnTimeSupplies.com\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/44111.jpg\" alt=\"Purell Instant Hand Sanitizer | OnTimeSupplies.com\"><\/figure><\/strong>Purell Instant Hand Sanitizer<br><\/td><td><strong><figure><a title=\"Kleenex Hand Sanitizer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/kleenex-instant-hand-sanitizer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Kleenex Instant Hand Sanitizer | OnTimeSupplies.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/58258.jpg\" alt=\"Kleenex Instant Hand Sanitizer | OnTimeSupplies.com\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/figure><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><a title=\"Kleenex Hand Sanitizer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/kleenex-instant-hand-sanitizer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kleenex Instant Hand Sanitizer<\/a><\/strong><\/td><td><strong><figure><a title=\"Clorox Hand Sanitizer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/clorox-hand-sanitizer-spray.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Clorox\u00ae Hand Sanitizer | OnTimeSupplies.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/26955.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/figure><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><a title=\"Clorox Hand Sanitizer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/clorox-hand-sanitizer-spray.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clorox Hand Sanitizer<\/a><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Soap &amp; Water &#8211;still better than any hand sanitizer.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Washing your hands for at least 20 seconds with plain old <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/personal-soaps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hand soap<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;(and drying them with paper towels!) is still better than hand sanitizer. That&#8217;s because hand washing kills viruses as well as bacteria, including cold &amp; &nbsp;flu viruses. You don&#8217;t even have to use <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/personal-soaps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anti-bacterial soap<\/a> <\/strong>to kill the most common germs. As long and you thoroughly wash and dry your hands, you&#8217;re good to go. Still, hand sanitizers are better than nothing. Just save them for when you can&#8217;t get to a sink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/hand-sanitizers.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/office-ink.ontimesupplies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/buy-purell-hand-sanitizers-at-ontimesupplies-banner.jpg\" alt=\"Buy Purell Hand Sanitizers at OnTimeSupplies.com\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural hand sanitizers have proliferated the market in recent years. But do alcohol-free hand sanitizers work as well as traditional alcohol based products like Purell Sanitizer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7648,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/7648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}