• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I never stopped to ask what is in " antibacterial" soap that makes it such? Do they straight-up put an antibiotic in it like fucking Neosporin?

    Then you’ve got “hand sanitizer” which is usually just denatured ethanol and some gelling agent.

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      3 months ago

      Not sure. I would have been happy with just a product from a brand I recognized that actually claimed to be soap without weird marketing weasel words.

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      3 months ago

      Anything that can kill living organisms to the guaranteed percentage, isn’t not as cut and dry as “alcohol” in hand sanitizer. A lot of them are a based in chlorine.

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        3 months ago

        hocl?

        *I only ask this as I knew someone who claimed to be an inventor of this and well…I listened quite a bit on the whole bit. I liked them a lot, but we sort of parted ways at some point. But I thought they were good people. I just think about this…chemical compound (I guess you’d call it) from time to time because of them. But also see it sometimes listed on things nowadays.

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          3 months ago

          First result detective but it looks mostly like triclosan C12.H7.Cl3.O2. hocl appears to be used more for water purification than cleansing agent.

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            3 months ago

            The lovely individual I was talking about above told me it can kill all sorts of of stuff. I gave a look-up on it after I wrote this cause I knew I could find some things on them and here’s a little bit here:

            "The spray could be used in health-care facilities, restaurants, cruise ships, water parks, any place where many people interact in a potential breeding ground for infectious diseases that are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. "