Thentix Skin Care

Anti Bacterial Hand Sanitizer or Not

April 12, 2010 at 5:31 pm healthytwo Leave a comment

I talk to many people in the health care industry.  They wash their hands constantly through the day as they are dealing with people with diseases or children.  Most also use an alcohol based sanitizer to help fend off bacteria and viruses.  The biggest complaint that I hear is that it dries the skin on their hands out terribly.  Nurses show me hands where skin is cracked at the fingertips and between the fingers. The constant washing dries out the skin to some extent but the addition of alcohol makes it many times worse.   Most just have resigned to live with this.

I was showing a young mother the Thentix product at a trade show and I mentioned the anti bacterial qualities and at first she misunderstood me and thought that we had added some sort of chemical sanitizer to the product.  I assured her that we had not.  Her concern was that she didn’t want her children to grow up in a completely sanitized environment.  This somewhat startled me but got me thinking about the general paranoia that is promoted in our society today regarding clean hands and germs. The mother made sure that her children kept themselves clean but didn’t want to prevent them from building up anti-bodies in a natural way.

There is no doubt in my mind that general hygiene being better today that it was 100 or 200 years or a millennia ago has kept us all much healthier.  That said from the research that I’ve done I don’t know for a fact that anti bacterial sanitizers make all that much difference.  I think a person should wash their hands regularly – before food preparation and at other times – when dealing with the sick, etc.  But alcohol based hand sanitizers have not been proven to make that much difference.  I implore you to take the time research online and find the facts.  There is a lot of information about the pros and cons but get the information so that you can have some judgment.  There have been instances where children have reacted adversely to the alcohol in some of these products.

As for Thentix: A Touch of Honey – you will find honey and calendula.  Honey has anti bacterial properties as it slowly releases hydrogen peroxide – bacteria won’t grow in the presence of oxygen.  Using hydrogen peroxide out of a bottle is too powerful – it kills some of the skin as well.  Calendula has anti viral properties as well.

Entry filed under: Skin "Tips". Tags: anti bacterial, dry cracked hands, fingers, hand santitizer.