Teach Soap

This question was asked by one of my friends that I send soap to. I googled the question. There are opposing thoughts on this question on google. What I told her was: "Regular hoousehold soap or cleanser doe not kill germs - rather, it suspends (or lifts) them off the skin surface, allowing the microscopic criters to be rinsed down the drain" this answer was paraphrased by one of the sites that I looked at. Can anyone come up with a better answer?
I would like to tell her that anti-bacterial soap is not recommended by the scientists (with the exception of the ones that came up with the idea of putting it into liquid hand soaps and are making billions of dollars off this) or doctors because the anti-bacterial soap will kill the good as well as the bad bacteria on your skin, leaving you with no natural good bacteria to fight off the initial attack to your skin. Therefore, leaving germs to freely take over if you have a cut or abrasion on your skin. Is this correct?

Maybe you could point her toward this article on WebMD?

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excellent article magic, thank you so much, i'll pass it on

Ive been trying to tell this to people for years and I always get that "you're a crazy hippie" look! To me it makes perfect sense. My MIL is always running after my daughter with AB wipes, soaps, ointments.... What can you do? People just buy into the whole "must kill all bacteria" thing, and companies make money off of scaring people.

And then from all these AB wipes, AB soaps, ointments and such become more resistant bacteria that none of these will reach.
I grew up with none of these and I was hardly sick.

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Yes, I agreee. Once I stopped using the AB liquid soaps and such, I've not "knock on wood" gotten as sick with colds and flu and I had. Haven't had a cold in a couple of years and no flu for 5 or 6 years now. Yeah!!!! Guess I'm lucky and hope it holds.