Keeping your hands clean is the easiest way to protect yourself and your loved ones from getting sick. Hashing your hands with hand sanitiser is the best way to keep your hands germ-free when you have no access to soap and water. Today, I’ve partnered up with UK hand sanitizer manufacturer Ocean Free to talk about the benefits of using hand sanitiser.

Firstly, it’s important to note how germs spread. As this article on the CDC explains, “germs can spread from other people or surfaces when you:

  • Touch your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands
  • Prepare or eat food and drinks with unwashed hands
  • Touch a contaminated surface or objects
  • Blow your nose, cough, or sneeze into hands and then touch other people’s hands or common objects.”

It’s essential to sanitise your hands before, during and after preparing and eating food. According to the Food Standards Agency, “harmful bacteria can spread very easily from people’s hands to food, work surfaces, equipment, etc. Effective handwashing helps to prevent this.”

Hand sanitiser can kill 99.999% of bacteria, germs and viruses. 

Alcohol-based hand sanitising gel or liquid hand sanitiser with an alcohol concentration of more than 60% can kill 99.999% of bacteria, viruses and germs that might be on your hands. Any non-alcohol based sanitiser or sanitiser with less than 60% alcohol concentration might not be as effective.

Hand sanitiser is lightweight and easy-to-use.

Whether you are cooking at home or cooking in an open space for your friends and family, it’s always good to have hand sanitiser at hand. You might even have a small outside booth selling food and having hand sanitiser is essential. As Me Him the Dog and the Baby mentions in this blog post, “You can easily store hand sanitiser in your purse, backpack or pocket and take it out whenever you need to sanitise your hands.”

Hand sanitiser comes in various sizes, scents and more.

As Pretty Big Butterflies comments, “There are so many hand sanitisers to choose from that you will be able to find the perfect fit for your hands.” Do you want a scented hand sanitiser? The choices are endless, from lemon zest hand sanitiser to sea breeze hand sanitiser. Do you want fragrance-free hand sanitiser? Do you want moisturising hand sanitiser? Ocean Free manufactures a variety of hand sanitiser that will meet any and all sanitising needs you have, so be sure to check out their website and their hand sanitisers.