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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
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.
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Studies of workers in Bangladesh using just soapy water or bar soap and water showed that rinsing with just soapy water alone, which is more dilute, reduced cfu at the same rate of bar soap and water.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4125272/
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