How Does Hand Sanitizer Kill Bacteria?
Disease-causing germs are present around you all the time. One main route of infection for these pathogens is your hands. Your hands are constantly touching the environment around you, picking up pathogens as they go, allowing these harmful substances to infect you or spread to others. To prevent this, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the regular washing of your hands with soap and water. Unfortunately, clean water and soap is not always available. In these cases the CDC recommends using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, which is capable of killing most germs.
