Here's the next recommendation for a healthier body that doesn't require any extra effort, other than exercising your right to choose products that will be helpful to your body rather than harmful. Antibacterial soap is a menace. Your body needs bacteria as part of normal function. It is the bacteria in your body that actually prevents sickness and disease. Yes there are a few strains of bacteria that are bad for you and cause sickness. But once your body encounters one of these and you get through it, you will have developed antibodies that will combat that strain of bacteria in the future.You need to rely more on your body's natural defenses and less on manufactured chemicals.
Your hands have natural bacteria on them. This bacteria is meant to combat the bad stuff that your hands might come in contact with during the course of your day. You need the bacteria on your hands to be there and be strong, and work for you the way it was intended. When you use antibacterial soap and you kill that bacteria, you are making yourself more vulnerable to sickness, not less. Without any bacteria on your hands, there is nothing to combat the bad stuff when you do eventually come in contact with it.
So which soap should you choose? Hopefully one day I'll be popular enough to get an endorsement from some big soap company and I can tell you which one to use. But alas, this is not so. The best I can do is tell you to use the soap with the least amount of chemicals in it, and definitely non-antibacterial. Personally I use Dove soap. You should avoid soaps that are scented very strongly too, mainly because that probably indicates a large presence of chemicals and soap should be cleaning the chemicals off of you, not putting them on. So the next time you're at the supermarket, check out the different soap options, and make a conscious decision that follows the recommendation given here.
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