Does using soap and water really clean your hands?

I'm talking about regular soap and water not antibacterial soap. Like will it actually take all the dirty stuff like bacteria off of your hands? I heard all soap does it strip a thin layer of skin and oil off of your skin so all the bad stuff goes down the drain but is this true? So if i used regular soap and water does it actually remove things like mucus, blood, semen, feces, and other things that contain bacteria?Does using soap and water really clean your hands?
Yes, actually, just doing the motions under warm running water with no soap for 30 seconds ( Sing Happy Birthday Three Times) will remove a lot of pathogens. This nice to know, but soap does work best.Does using soap and water really clean your hands?
Soap is a surfactant and washes the oil along with the bacteria down the sink. An antibacterial soap kills the bacteria. The problem with antibacterial soap is it doesn't kill all the bacteria. Only 99.9%. That other very small percentage is the strongest and can start to build up an resistance to the antibacterial soaps. Use regular soap!! For thirty seconds vigorous hand washing with warm water and you won't have a problem.
Doctors and surgeons never used to have anti-bacterial Anything in the not-so-distant past. I believe soap and water were sufficient for them, they had no alternative. They performed operations depending on soap and water so....you can depend on it too!
yes it is recommended to wash your hands for 30 seconds and scrub while washing. antibacterial soaps are great but if unavailable regular soap works also