Hello, hello, this is Brooke Divard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty Podcast today.

I am talking about a single category in beauty that's been the one beauty investment that's

totally changed my day-to-day life and that is a great hand so.

Now, during the pandemic, many lessons were learned that one that escapes none of us was the

importance of washing your hands. I'm actually sad to read. I was doing some background research

on hand washing statistics. Apparently, hand washing has decreased by about 25% since 2020 since

the coronavirus first hit. Now, the statistics around how many, and I just narrowed it down to

Americans, but the statistics around how many people don't wash their hands correctly is staggering.

I think 5% of people wash their hands correctly, meaning they do it for long enough and they use

soap. So, most people only wash their hands for six seconds and around 33% of people don't use soap

when washing their hands. There was another survey of the percentage of Americans that wash

their hands and one in tens of about 14% of people will just rinse their hands. They won't use soap or

dry their hands, but for those of us who do wash their hands, which I'm assuming most of us do,

you're washing your hands about five to ten times a day on average. It's one of these things that

is a daily part of your life and it's a product that's coming into contact with your skin so

often throughout the day. Now, back in 2020, I started making hand soaps and sharing videos of my

little recipes on naked beauty planet. I would take the Dr. Bronner's Castile Uncented soap, I would

dilute it, and then I would add different nourishing oils, jojoba oil, vitamin E oil, and then

dashes of my favorite essential oils to basically give the hand soap a fragrance. I made a lavender soap,

my most experimental one was a rose in sandalwood soap because I got my hands on some

Australian sandalwood essential oil, which was gorgeous, but then there were also failed attempts.

I made a mint citrus soap that did not go down well in my family because my ratio was wrong,

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