Washing hands periodically with good antibacterial liquid hand wash is the one and only most efficient practice to prevent various infectious diseases like diarrhea which is the third leading cause of childhood mortality in our country. Human skin provides a supportive environment for the existence and multiplication of different microorganisms.
The hands and skin comes in contact with harmful germs when we use common public places, public transport, polluted environments, etc. Several products are available in the market for maintaining hand hygiene some of them include bar soap, sanitizers, liquid soap, hand, gels and foams. The conventional toilet soap that we generally use only washes away the germs but does not kill them. In some cases, the soap itself might get contaminated with germs.
Some of the liquid hand washes consist of Triclosan (TCN) or Triclocarban (TCC), which are potent chemicals with antibacterial action. Usually, the antibacterial material is an aqueous solution of potassium soaps, sodium soaps, or a combination of both, made from oils, fatty acids or their mixture; it can be a homogeneous, clear, translucent or opaque liquid with good lathering and cleaning properties.
Liquid hand-wash products are generally called as antibacterial/anti-germs. The hand-wash liquids also usually contain perfumes for their likeability among consumers. Most of the brands declares their variants to provide protection from germs which is clearly understood as being effective in fighting/killing germs. In addition to antibacterial chemicals like TCC/TCN, some herbal ingredients are equally effective in removing germs, as verified in the course of our laboratory tests.
