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Alcohol hand sanitizers cause dry hands and other skin problems

According to a clinical study published in a reputable medical journal, and cited by the National Institutes of Health, 88% of the hospital workers using alcohol hand sanitizers developed dry hands and other skin problems, and half of the people reporting these problem blamed their problems on their use of alcohol hand sanitizers.

The clinical study, named Alcohol hand abuse: a cross-sectional survey of skin complaints and usage patterns at a large UK teaching hospital, was published in the journal, JRSM Short Rep and the citation is 2011 Aug;2(8):68. It is published by the (US) National Institutes of Health here.

What is remarkable is that this clinical study was published in 2011.
So there is about a decade of experience and a reputable published clinical study showing that alcohol hand sanitizers are damaging to the skin of your hands.

Quoting the conclusions of the study:

Conclusion: This study demonstrated that 88% of respondents stated that they had new-onset skin problems, of which half-felt that alcohol gel was the main contributing factor. There was a detrimental effect on compliance with alcohol gel hand hygiene protocols in this group. This reflects the real life difficulties of staff in their endeavour to reduce hospital-acquired infections. Action is needed to improve the compliance with such a simple task and ensure that all is done to reduce nosocomial infection and reduce the potential financial burden. (emphasis supplied)

So here you have a reputable published medical journal article documenting what you probably already know – that alcohol hand sanitizers cause dry hands and other skin problems. They further point out that when employees avoid using hand sanitizer because it is drying and irritating their hands, this creates a hygiene problem that can result in spreading disease.

Avoid this risk to your family and business by switching to a non-alcohol hand sanitizer, using a formula recognized by the FDA as an effective hand sanitizer, while avoiding the skin drying and non-compliance issues caused by using alcohol hand sanitizers.

HandPower Cleaner^TM non-alcohol foaming hand sanitizer, made with the only FDA-recognized non-alcohol active ingredient, helps you avoid the problems caused by alcohol hand sanitizers by using an effective non-alcohol alternative.

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HandPower Cleaner Hand Sanitizer is Backed by Peer Reviewed Clinical Research

HandPower Cleaner^TM hand sanitizer keeps killing germs hours after you apply it to your hands. This residual protection of its active ingredient has been proven to be 10,000 times more effective than alcohol-based sanitizer at killing microbes 4 hours after applied to your hands, in a clinical study published in a peer-reviewed journal, the American Journal of Infection Control.

Benzalkonium Chloride hand sanitizer residual germ-killing power proven 10,000 times more effective after 4 hours in this clinical study

This clinical study, published in the August 1, 2019 issue of the American Journal of Infection Control by doctors Bondurant and Harbell, and researcher Collette Dulay, proved that hands that were treated with a Benzalkonium Chloride sanitizing solution continued to kill germs applied to those hands 1, 2, and 4 hours later, while hands treated with an alcohol-based sanitizer had very little protection against germs.

The difference in lasting protection given by Benzalkonium Chloride compared to alcohol is DRAMATIC:

After an hour, the alcohol-treated hands had 10^4.12 more bacteria than the hands treated by the Benzalkonium Chloride – based sanitizer – proving that Benzalkonium Chloride based sanitizers like HandPower Cleaner^TM have a more than 10,000 to 1 advantage!
Four hours after applying hand sanitizer, the hands that were treated with the Benzalkonium Chloride sanitizer was still able to kill 10^3.75 more germs than the hands that were treated with alcohol-based sanitizer, again, a 10,000 to 1 advantage.

This test was done under clinically-controlled conditions using a culture of Staphylococcus Aureus bacteria. While this study used a culture of one particular microbe, the results with other organisms vulnerable to the sanitizers should be comparable.