The World Health Organization has created posters to help organizations improve hand hygiene — one showing proper hand washing steps and one providing proper hand ...

Rubbing alcohol is used for a range of first aid and household-cleaning purposes. Its high alcohol content means it’s an excellent sanitizer, killing bacteria and viruses, and you can even use it to ...

Contact with alcohol and other solvents tends to dry the skin. Medical personnel have a high incidence of hand dermatitis, yet they are urged to use alcohol hand rubs to prevent spread of infections ...

The Centres for Disease Control recommends that people use hand sanitizer when soap and water aren't available. Washing your hands is considered better for hand hygiene but a sanitizer is more ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced recalls of several hand sanitizers due to the potential presence of methanol. Methanol is a toxic alcohol that can have adverse effects, such as ...

You likely have a bottle of rubbing alcohol in a cabinet to disinfect cuts or scrapes and sanitize hard surfaces. While this household item works excellent for those uses, there are plenty of ...

March 22, 2010 (Atlanta, Georgia) — Rates of surgical site infection after the use of plain soap and water or an alcohol-based rub for surgical hand preparation were comparable (about 8%) in a rural ...

Both hydrogen peroxide and rubbing alcohol can kill germs. Generally, you can use rubbing alcohol on the skin and some surfaces while you can only use hydrogen peroxide on surfaces. Rubbing alcohol ...

Isopropyl is pure alcohol with no other ingredients. Rubbing alcohol is a mixture of isopropyl and water, sometimes containing additional ingredients. Unlike rubbing alcohol, undiluted isopropyl is ...

Rubbing alcohol is a very powerful disinfectant, made up of either isopropyl alcohol, or an ethanol-based liquid. Rubbing alcohol is a good natural killer of bacteria, due to its strong alcohol or ...