At first thought, a person might think this “stuff” which kills germs is the next best thing to sliced bread.   However, the long term usage has far too many side effects for continual use.

All living things have an internal desire to “thrive and survive”.  Much like city rats that have adapted to their environments, these microscopic “germs” will do what they must in order to  continue to survive.  They will mutate and even become immune to things that once killed them.  We have created a “SUPER BUG: and our children are suffering because of the “germo-fobia” we have “commercially created”.  It is sort of like ” being a Mom that is obsessed with germ free and anti-bacterial stuff makes her a better Mom.  I would like to put that Myth aside.

Wash your hands is all we hear.  Of course that is an important issue, but perhaps we need to take a close look at what we are using to wash them. 

Our skin is much like a sponge.  You rub lotion on yourself and it disappears almost immediatly.  The same thing occurs with soaps.  Anti-bacterial properties are strong, as well as harmful to the skin.  ( just read the caution labels on your disinfectant cleaners)  Manufactures put those same sort of ingredients in the hand soaps we use daily.    ( Have you noticed that your hands need more lotion, or they are cracking like never before?) 

We are exposed to bacteria and viruses constantly-in fact trillions of them live in our bodies.  Our immune system is designed to cope with these germ to dispose of them.  When we  over use the anti-bacterial and anti-microbial soap, the germs get smart and become resistant to the chemicals we use against them.

I know of a Mom who used the “wipes” in her car constantly and every time she wiped the hands of her children, she wiped her steering wheel and dashboard and arm rests as well.  After only 4 years of doing this, her steering wheel and dashboard has cracked and the arm rests have deteriorated.  What sounded like a really great idea really wasn’t.  If those types of wipes with triclosan can do that sort of damage to an auto, what might it be doing to our children?  Their bodies hide the damage internally… not so with ojects.

What is wrong with just some good ole soap and water?  I dare a germ to stay on my hand once I soap up and rinse off.  Think of yourself trying to hang on to anything that is slicked up with a lather… impossible.  Maybe using all this stuff has become a bit of an “over-kill” (no pun intended) .

Look for soaps and wipes that don’t have anti-bacterial properties and see if suddenly your family isn’t as sick as they were a year ago.  I don’t have a published study on this, but I have seen it happen in countless families.  Germs are naturally occuring and we can all ive harmoniously together.  Why not give it a try.   If you want to know of a GREAT hand soap that works well, has a wonderful natural fragrance and the one quart makes 64 bottles of a hand soap, make a comment to this blog and I will put a free sample in the mail to you.