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Does pure alcohol 95 cleans and disinfect better than soap or hand gels ? and is totally safe on the skin (hands specially ) ?
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Depends: In general a good long scrub with lots of running clean city water is very good and is what surgeons scrub with. Ninety five percent alcohol is very drying to the skin and can irritate. I first suggest the soap and it can be plain soap or detergent. If you must use alcohol use seventy percent.
Answered 2/9/2014
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