It has little to do with evolutionary pressure and more to do with water, surfactants and friction in the right application works very very well for antimicrobial purposes and the addition of antibacterial chemicals is potentially harmful to you without benefit(this is why Europe largely banned triclosan soap). There’s nothing we’d really lose by encouraging resistance to these chemicals, the metabolic demands to resist them would include things like spore forming. That doesn’t just appear in a plasmid with some selective pressure like antimicrobial resistance.
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MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fun fact: hand sanitizer still doesn’t work. There are many strains of nasty bugs that survive even high alcohol concentrations, let alone chemicals like benzalkonium chloride. There’s a reason they have to put, “kills 99.x%”
Antibacterial soaps are banned in Europe because all they do is give germs the evolutionary pressure to get even better at surviving these chemicals.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Antibacterial soaps are banned in Europe
boots.com/dettol-anti-bacterial-original-soap-100…
match@pawb.social 2 months ago
Ah, my favorite genre of post
protist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Regardless of the term “anti-bacterial” on the label, there are quite a few specific ingredients in this area that are banned in the EU but in wide use in the US. Two of your links are to products in the UK also, which has totally different regulations from the rest of Europe
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 months ago
protist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Regardless of the marketing term “anti-bacterial” on the label, there are quite a few specific ingredients in this area that are banned in the EU but in wide use in the US.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m truly inspired by your ability to back pedal every time you’re called out on your bs. You’ve inspired me to never admit I might be wrong, despite the evidence to the contrary
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is the only comment I’ve made on this post, and it doesn’t backpedal? How is your reading comprehension so low?
protist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
“Antibacterial” soaps aren’t strictly banned in Europe, but many of the ingredients used in antibacterial soaps in the US are. Sorry these dense mfs giving you grief
TheMightyCat@lemm.ee 2 months ago
ah.nl/…/unicura-ultra-antibacterieel-handzeep
plus.nl/…/dettol-wasgel-antibacterieel-gevoelige-…
jumbo.com/…/palmolive-hygiene-plus-keuken-antibac…
protist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Regardless of the marketing term “anti-bacterial” on the label, there are quite a few specific ingredients in this area that are banned in the EU but in wide use in the US.