Wash Hands Soap Water

Wash your hands with soap and water when your hands are visibly soiled.

Wash hands soap water.

Note if soap and water are not available use hand sanitizer. Food handlers in restaurants schools delis and grocery stores must wash their hands with soap and water before applying hand sanitizers. Especially it recommends people. Apply soap and lather well.

Remember to scrub all surfaces including the backs of your hands wrists between your fingers and under your fingernails. You can tell if the sanitizer contains at least 60 alcohol by looking at the product label. Wet your hands with clean running water either warm or cold. Rub your hands vigorously for at least 20 seconds.

Religions also prescribe hygienic hand washing especially after certain actions. Symbolic hand washing using water but no soap to wash hands is a part of ritual hand washing featured in many religions including bahá í faith hinduism tevilah and netilat yadayim in judaism lavabo in christianity and wudhu in islam.