anti-bacterial hand soap

with flu season approaching, i'm thinking about getting some hand soap to carry around w/ me, but are there any brands that a. work and b. don't reek of alcohol? hippie products accepted

Soap or sanitizer? I don't don't use either but people generally carry around sanitizer, don't they?

Errr - just to clarify - I obv use soap to wash my hands. I meant that I don't carry anything like this around with me.

i guess it would be sanitizer wouldn't it

in any event

flu doesn't spread through hand-to-anything contact, you gotta get a shot and wear a mask

Soap kills the flu (so would alcohol) so you'd be good with soap. I'm not sure but most (hand applicable) sanitizers would contain alcohol or some other volatile stuff to be able to use it without needing something to dry your hands with.

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You're wrong Kerm. Spreading occurs through direct contact with infected materials, be they airborne (aerosols/mucus) or present on hands/material surfaces.

if by "wrong" you mean i didn't read the entire wikipedia article on hand sanitizers, then sure..

...it says avoid people at all cost and carry a small bezoar in your front shirt pocket, fyi. also do not rub a pig's nose near your ear or face wtf??

How bezoar, how bezoar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGUMsxVt4YU

Wrong (not "wrong") from a transmission point of view. If infected excretions end up on furniture/doorknobs/hands etc. the virus remains infectious for quite some time. There was this doc (BBC I think?) a couple of years ago in which the global spread of the virus was visualized quite well (a bit too much dramatization maybe)..

full disclosure: i also said you "gotta" get a shot and wear a mask, and you don't gotta do neither.

sanitizers would contain alcohol or some other volatile stuff to be able to use it without needing something to dry your hands with.

it's cool if the product contains alcohol, i would just prefer that it doesn't completely reek of it like purell stuff

soap doesn't kill viruses or bacteria, it makes your hand slippery and they slide off.

anti-bacterial chemicals kill bacteria. flu is caused by a virus.

stick with purell, get scented to mask the alcohol.

you can also man up and get a flu shot, or lick the toilet seat of a public restroom

yeah i think i might just get the shot

i never get sick but being around a lot of ppl/riding public transportation all the time has me a bit jumpy

soap doesn't kill viruses or bacteria, it makes your hand slippery and they slide off.

Apparently a ton of them slide off onto the towel you wipe your hands with?? This goes against everyone's instinctive feeling that since you just washed your hands, the towel is clean....

towels are nagl - they remain wet for a long time, with little airflow if the towel is scrunched up, and the room may be really hot and humid after a shower

in fact I don't know why people require the instant drying o their hands after washing them - it wastes paper, or subjects your hands to a dirty towel, when really your hand would be dry within 2-3 minutes anyway

i work in a super enviro-friendly office. air is cirulated up through the building through floor vents to spread germs and disease, keeping people away from work thus reducing the building's carbon footprint. it's ace. /def getting a flu jab this year

But wait, if all the germs that soap just made "slippery" are on your hands until you dry them, what happens if you DON'T dry them?? The germs just stay on there?

they should be washed off when you wash off the soap, but it's not like you're gonna wash off 100% of the germs

you also might make them mad!

two to three minutes! what do you have, werewolf hands?

http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/freemasons.png

I subscribe to the mr burns theory

http://i.imgur.com/HfEMI.jpg

Purell make a spray called "Spring Splash" that actually smells good, I think. I'm a psychotic germophobe and carry it with me all the time.
Note: It dries my hands out so I also have to carry hand lotion.