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Putting Your Hands First™ In Health - 3-Hour Hand Sanitizer

Before the age of alcohol-based hand sanitizers, hot water and soap or surgical grade antiseptics were the only method to cleanse one's hands appropriately. For the past decade, alcohol-based sanitizers have bombarded the shelves of every pharmacy and grocery store across the globe in ever growing numbers. Many claim to kill 99.9% of germs and bacteria, keeping you safe from the flu and other harmful bacteria that are itching to get on your hands, and then find a way inside your body to multiply by the billions.

The claims of many brands of alcohol-based hand sanitizers are not completely false when it comes to killing germs and bacteria on your hands, especially if their ingredients include at least 60% or more of ethyl alcohol, ethanol, or isopropanol. However, any less of a percentage of these ingredients and the formulas have no germ killing properties. For the brands that do possess the appropriate alcohol levels, bacteria and viruses are killed on contact, however, what happens when the alcohol evaporates? What happens after your clean dry hands touch another contaminated surface? Well, the answer is your hands are now re-contaminated and you must reapply another alcohol based product in order to do the job again.

In public areas such as school and office buildings, the food health industry, and most importantly the health industry, reapplication of alcohol-based hand sanitizers must take place every single time your hands come in contact with a potentially contaminated surface. This can not only be quite costly to keep gallons of alcohol-based hand sanitizer on hand, but a pain in the neck to keep your clean hands away from surfaces where germs live and thrive, because the fact is germs are everywhere. That is why we at Rehabmart  are promoting a new, innovative, FDA-approved hand sanitizer, which is foam-based, not alcohol-based, and keeps your hands protected from re-contamination for up to three hours, called Hands First™.

Hands First Hand Sanitizer is a highly developed and specialized formulation that has been extensively tested on human subjects in its effectiveness against a broad range of bacteria, fungi and viruses. The scientists at St John's Medical Research Institute developed this technology over several years. In human testing, Hands First™ shows significant kill, over 99.9%, against gram positive and gram negative bacteria. The difference in Hands First™ and other alcohol-based hand sanitizers is not the effectiveness of killing viruses, bacteria and fungi, but the longevity of protection it offers. In clinical trials, the FDA has approved the effectiveness of Hands First™ to prevent recontamination for up to three hours. That's three hours without having to reapply a single drop more to keep your hands protected from harmful contaminants.

RehabMart is proud to offer Hands First™ to the public as the only hand sanitizer with the ability to protect hands for hours. Medical professionals, including doctors and nurses, must reapply hand sanitizer constantly in order to keep their hands free from contamination. Their hands can become dry, cracked and they can even suffer from skin irritations from the numerous reapplications.  Hands First™ can break them free of the drying effects of alcohol-based hand sanitizers and keep them safer, and their patients safer, for hours.  Furthermore, because Hands First™ comes in a foam dispenser and does not include alcohol, it can be applied directly to minor cuts and scrapes. Not only does this create a protective barrier to minor surface wounds, but the non-alcohol properties of Hands First™ cause no burning sensation.

There is nothing more important than one's health, and the key to keeping one's health in check is by keeping one's hands clean and protected from the outside world. That is why we at RehabMart recommend that you put your health, your employees' health, your patients' health and your loved ones' health at the top of the priority list by putting your own Hands First™.

Keith Higginbotham,
Medical Consumer Writer
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Hulet Smith, OT
Rehabmart Team Leader & CEO