Why does hand sanitizer say it kills 99% of germs? What kind of germs does it not work against?
by 
Freedom00
ANSWERS: 8
-
There are some bacteria so hardy that alcohol does not kill them. PLUS, there are little crevices and cracks in your skin that are not reached by the sanitizer. There's always something left alive...
-
OK, I wont be sleeping tonight.
-
:) There are no bacteria couldn't killed by the hand sanitizer, but actuly noone can tell if your hand are really germs free ! so it's not exact thing in some cases you may killed 100% of germs sometimes you didn't kill more than 60% nothing is ceirten !
-
That's just marketing talk. If they said 100% of germs there'd be some nutjob out there all set to sue them for false reprsentation if they found even one germ still alive afterwards.
-
Ya just can't kill these little bugger's. :(
-
1%-ers
-
It's marketing babble, and has nothing to do with science. Just ignore it- it doesn't mean anything. It's just there to get you to buy the product. That's all.
-
I've never seen a product that claims to kill 100% of germs; that's just asking for legal trouble. Whatever germ you had trouble with -- that's the one 1%
Moongrim 
Thriftymaid RELATED QUESTIONS
Copyright 2023, Wired Ivy, LLC