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Serious about washing your hands with antibacterial soap? This bacteria was then spread on the hands of 16 adults who had not used antibacterial soap for the preceding week, and who were then told to wash their hands for 30 seconds with plain or antibacterial soap in water heated...

“There was no significant difference in bactericidal activity between plain soap and antibacterial soap at either test temperature”.

In 2007, a Clinical Infectious Diseases-published review of 27 past studies looking at the differences between the use of normal and anti-bacterial soap found no difference in effectiveness.