Put Down The Hand Sanitiser: Here's How To Wash Your Hands Instead

CLIENT: DR ZAC TURNER
OUTLET: 10 DAILY

Hand sanitiser is considered the Holy Grail of portable hygiene, but new research has found it may not be as effective as people think.

Simply slapping on hand sanitiser is not going to kill the germs on your hand, according to GP, Dr Zac Turner.

"The way that hand sanitiser actually kills off the germs is that it evaporates, and it is the evaporation that kills a lot of the germs," he told 10 daily.