Use alcohol-based hand sanitizers as an alternative to hand washing when soap and water aren't available.
Hand washing with soap has been shown to reduce rates by more than 40%.
According to its website, 1.4 million deaths can be prevented each year by hand washing with soap.
Hand washing with soap can reduce diarrhea morbidity by 44 percent.
For example, a young nail-biter whose mother told her that the habit was unhygienic and might pose a health risk decided to examine whether more bacteria were removed during hand washing with soap or hand sanitizer.
It and Unilever have programmes to explain the health benefits of washing hands with soap several times a day and of brushing teeth regularly.
For Hofmann and PSI, 40 years of working in the field have brought to light several key lessons, especially about campaigns that involve changing habits and persuading people to turn habit into routine like washing hands with soap.
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Washing with Castile soap and icy water, he worried over his scrawniness, his spindle shins, the green yarns of vein in his forearms, his face so thin that his zygomatic bones and jaw shaped harps underneath his ginger-brown, one-inch beard and mustache.
Together they have, for instance, understood that Ghanaians prefer liquid to solid soap for hand-washing and are more likely to wash their hands before eating if the soap does not smell too strong (since Ghanaians often eat with their hands).
Ethicist Baruch Cohen once wrote that using data from Nazi experiments that involved cruelty and torture was like washing with a bar of soap made from concentration camp dead.
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Washing your hands with plenty of soap and water or using hand sanitizers with at least 60 percent alcohol is advised as well.
He said each is given a canteen with water, shampoo, toothpaste, a toothbrush, soap and two buckets, one for hygiene and one for washing.
As for that alleged disdain for soap, the statistics ignore the savon de Marseille, an unscented household soap used by many French people, especially southerners, for washing bodies as well as clothes.
After like 2 hours, my grandmother came into the bathroom and proceeded to tell me this story about a prince covered in dirt that could only travel via soap bubbles and how he stayed in the bath too long and ended up washing away before he could get the princess.
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