[rescue] bacterial questions.

rescue at sunhelp.org rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Aug 21 11:09:32 CDT 2001


"Greg A. Woods" wrote:

> Those so-called "Anti-bacterial" soaps are bad, Bad, BAD.  The consumer
> variety literally cannot kill all the bacteria on your skin so all they
> does is make evolution work in favour of the soap-resistant variants.


I'm not sure they're bad, Bad, BAD. The impression I had was that you
have to sit there scrubbing for something like 8 minutes to actually
achieve antibacteriality. I guess that would make them do what you say
if not used long enough. Feh, live dirty and be happy about it.


---sambo



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