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Stuff You Should Know

How Antibacterial Soap Works

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2008

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Could the routine use of antibacterial soap increase the presence of drug-resistant bacteria in your home? Learn more about the disadvantages of anti-bacterial soap in this HowStuffWorks podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

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0:08.3

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0:14.0

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0:16.4

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0:17.7

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0:23.6

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0:30.5

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0:33.3

It's ready. Are you?

0:35.9

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuff Works.com.

0:41.5

Hi and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. I'm a staff writer here at House Stuff Works.com.

0:46.4

With me as always is my very attractive and trusty editor Chris Palette.

0:50.8

Chris has your go team. Oh it's great. Let's talk about antibacterial soap you want to?

0:57.2

Sure why not. Chris, should we or should we not outlaw antibacterial soap?

1:01.9

I don't know that we need to outlaw antibacterial soap.

1:04.7

But we need to take a second look at whether or not we should be using it in all of our daily applications.

1:11.9

Why? Well simply put, it's not that much more effective than regular soap and it can breed stronger bacteria.

1:20.7

Yeah, basically from what I gather, we know from the research I did writing the article,

1:27.2

it basically provides this environment for bacteria where the bacteria that happens to survive

1:34.4

goes on to evolve to be resistant to the antibacterial agents, right?

1:39.8

Right. Okay so we've got this, this basically we're providing a staging ground for rapid evolution

1:45.6

and we're making our own worst enemy. That's true, that's true because some of the drug resistance strains

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