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I wrote this article for my school newspaper.

Hand Wash vs Hand Sanitizer


Hand wash or Hand Sanitizer: Which one to use to protect ourselves from the COVID-19 or any disease?
 

This is an important question many people are asking themselves.
Now, before I tell you which one is better, let's see the brief advantages and disadvantages of both of them.


For hand washing, you have to put water on your hands, then you have to put hand wash on your hands and rub the soap liquid on your hands while counting to 15 slowly. Then you have to put your hands back into the water to rinse the soap off your hands.


Meanwhile, with hand sanitizer, you just have put the liquid on your hands then rub while you are counting to 15 slowly.
 

Hand sanitizer looks way easier than Hand wash. Right?
 

Now, just because hand sanitizer is quicker doesn't mean that you should always get it. Both have the potential to kill 99.9% of germs in your hands. The place where you use hand sanitizer is when you are traveling. Imagine you are in your car and you are picking up your food from a restaurant after you are done eating it in your car, you know you are going to be messy since you don't have any water in the car, you use the amazing hand sanitizer!


On the other hand, you could use the hand wash wherever there is water, sink, and tissue paper or dryer.


Now let's see the disadvantages of hand wash and hand sanitizer.
Few disadvantages of the hand wash are as follows. When you take the tissue paper to dry your hands, all the water doesn't get off and it creates a lot of garbage. With a hand dryer, your skin loses moisture, and the protective layer each time you wash your hands.

 

Few disadvantages of using hand sanitizers are you might get dry skin, infection, or even alcohol poisoning.
 

Now, I think, I have to tell you which one to use, and the winner is THE HAND WASH!
 

I picked it for three reasons:

-> It's cheaper

-> It's safer to take food as the taste of food won't change due to alcohol

-> The dead germs will get off your skin due to rinsing it with water.

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