The FDA says it probably doesn't work and may be bad for us.

Isn't this all backwards?

It's been so difficult to find soaps without triclosan in it. You don't need antibacterial products in soap. Using triclosan free soap and scrubbing for 20 seconds = antibacterial.

Got it

I just use regular non-antibacterial hand soap, and then a hand sanitizer.

Works much, much, better.

I understand it's also a hormone disruptor in children. Goodness knows we don't need them any stranger than they already are these days.

I've heard they don't work?

Get one that is at least 80% alcohol.

The drying action of the alcohol is what gives it antibiotic properties. If someone is giving you a shot and they don't wait for the alcohol swipe to dry, they are doing it wrong.

to treat fear of bacteria?

shrinks?

using regular soap is in itself an antibacterial.

They've done tests and in most cases "antibacterial" is no more effective than "soap". Even just washing with water can remove bacteria.

If there are some germs on my hands well guess what, it was meant to be. I'm okay with that.

My philosophy has always been "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger". I never use hand sanitizer or any of that stuff. I rarely get sick. I always wondered why children these days seem to be allergic to everything and get sick all the time and sometimes I wonder if it's because they live in such protected, sanitized environments.

So many of my nieces and nephews have allergies and are always getting infections. My siblings and I never had any allergies and were rarely sick. I don't ever recall growing up with anyone who had food allergies. I don't have proof that not being exposed to germs is the cause of this, it's just anecdotal, but it makes me wonder.

I mean I wash after I #2 of course, and prior to preparing food, but that's about it. I can't tell you how many burgers and sandwiches I've chowed down w/o even thinking "i need to wash my hands first". And I've been that way my whole life ... and basically I never get sick. I believe it's because I've been this way my whole life. My body has built defenses since I was a child.

Parents actually do their children a disservice by trying to keep everything around them so sanitary ... if kids were so easily 'hurt' by germs, none of us would be here, because for the 1M years of our presence on this planet, there's only been 'soap' and 'indoor plumbing' and such for a TINY portion of that time. Our bodies are MEANT to exposed to all these germs when we're young ... and if you're NOT ... it's far worse for you in the long run.

they finally got a clue!

All they have are these Anti-bacterial soaps, which make my hands raw and bleed; same as latex gloves. I brought my own plain old bar of soap into school when I worked there. All the young kids wanted to use my bar of soap to wash their hands. Tell your Mama to give you a bar of soap to take to school. Will the public schools stop staff, or students, from washing their hand with non-Anti-bacterial bars of plain soap? Nope. Washing hands is more important than what you use to do it with.

Said he stayed safe by never washing his hands in school.

people from getting germs. I don't worry about germs, but I use Dial antibacterial soap and when I don't I can notice at the end of the day my armpits smell like armpits (in hot humid Miami). I don't know if it's the antibacterial, but when i use my Mom's Dove soap it's not the same.

but that the industrial processes use to create the soap, and what it leaves in the greywater it runs off into, are problematic.

Jeeeeezussss, it took long enough. I never ever bought them, because I knew when that damn gimmick came out, it was a perfect recipe for bacteria to develop tolerance.

Don't you sometimes wish you couldn't see this crap 20 years before the rest of the people start waking up?
Might be less stressful.

if you don't want to wash your hands with it, think about putting it in your mouth.

http://www.ada.org/en/publications/ada-news/2014-archive/august/ada-issues-statement-on-triclosan-in-toothpaste

Stopped using that crap a long time ago.