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The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped public health practices, bringing hand sanitizer into the spotlight as an essential tool for germ protection. While its use skyrocketed, with children applying it up to ...

Hand sanitizer turned into a pocket-sized security blanket over the past few years, but it was never designed to solve every mess you get on your hands. When you are dealing with grease, grime, ...

Washing your hands is an essential way to slow the spread of the coronavirus and other pathogens; however, frequent handwashing can cause dry skin that could flake, itch, crack and even bleed without ...

AMES, Iowa — Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are popular due to their ease of use and perceived germ-killing abilities. They have become even more prevalent due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, but ...

As the norovirus outbreak continues to spread in the U.S., you can't rely on hand sanitizer alone to protect you. Norovirus, also sometimes called the "winter vomiting disease," causes ...

Norovirus spreads fast, hits hard, and thrives in the very places you are used to trusting a quick pump of sanitizer to keep ...

As flu season begins amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic, it’s perhaps more important than ever to maintain good hygiene. One way to do that is to keep hand sanitizer on hand, but using it and ...