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Hand Care

HAND WASHING FACTS

Clean hands help you to stay healthy and keep everybody around you healthy

  • Hand washing can help to prevent the spread of viruses
  • Up to half of all men and women fail to wash their hands after they have been to the toilet
  • The number of germs on your fingertips could double after using the toilet
  • A third of people do not use soap when washing their hands
  • Damp hands spread 1,000 times more germs than dry hands
  • We each have millions of bacteria on our skin