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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Soap is soap. The mechanical action of rubbing your hands with soap and rinsing with water will give you an additional log kill beyond spraying with disinfectant.
The important thing is to also clean all surfaces of your fingers. Wash each one individually-top, bottom, and sides. It will look like you're jacking off your finger, but it is the most effective method.
Also, when you rinse, angle your hands up so that the water runs down your fingers and off your wrists.
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I get that if you are thorough and meticulous with most soaps, you're going to be effective, but the point is 'soap' isn't 'soap.'
Tackle a pan with baked grease with Dawn, and try the same thing with dollar store dish soap. There are differences in the concentration and strength of emulsifiers. Or if you want a stark comparison, check something like SuperClean degreaser.
And I'm not comparing handwashing with soap with disinfecting with Purell and leaving it on your hands. I'm talking about if there are any actual comparative studies of the relative efficacy of various strengths and concentrations of emulsifiers in the various soaps.