Emily+W

Emily W 2011 - 2012
 * THE STUDY OF HOW WELL DIFFERENT HAND CLEANSING PRODUCTS CAN CLEAN HANDS **

The purpose of this experiment was to determine how well different hand cleansing products can clean a human’s hands the best. The introduction tells about how soap works, what hydrophobic and hydrophilic is, what hand sanitizer is made of, and it references a science paper similar to this experiment. This experiment was conducted by using Glogerm and a volunteer and doing different things to help determine the final answer to the question asked. It was determined that soap and water clean the best when there are many germs on your hands, and hand sanitizer is good for cleaning small amounts. This is because soap cannot hold too many germs so it leaves the smaller places behind, which is where the hand sanitizer comes into play.
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 * CONCLUSION **

The end result is that soap and water clean the best when there is a big amount of germs on a pair of hands, but when it comes to small amounts, hand sanitizer is the best way to go. This data could be important to the world, because it gives tips and pointers and tells how to keep healthy and clean, and the bad bacteria stay out, so no sickness can have a chance to knock someone down. The hypothesis was partially correct, because it said that soap would clean the best, and it did, but it didn’t clean small germs off, when the hand sanitizer did. Some future follow up experiments could be “do different types of surfaces affect how well Glogerm comes off?” or “does how old the Glogerm is affect how well it cleans off of human hands?”.