Cheapest price for anti-bacterial wipes, equivalent to 2c per wipe :), decent size too: 15cm x 20cm
Note: these do not contain alcohol, but Benzalkonium Chloride (see equiv listing at https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/92992/oakw…)
Yes, so don't use them as hand sanitizer.
No its more to do with the dangerous resistant bacteria that form overtime when you use benzalkonium chloride only wipes.
Which bizarrely are usually touted as the sensitive choice.
Its the same reason I refuse to use anti-bacterial products in general, alcohol wipes and alcohol sanitizer are the exceptions, they destroy germs physically.
Triclosan is another one people should be avoiding, there are studies linking it to nerve damage and muscle impairment.
The TGA hasn't banned it last I checked, and it is often in mouthwash and toothpastes, the reason you can't get it anymore is mostly due to supermarkets removing the products containing it (unbelievably that the supermarkets did something good for once).
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-issu…
https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/medicines/medicinal-product/…
https://www.choice.com.au/health-and-body/beauty-and-persona…
alcohol wipes and alcohol sanitizer are the exceptions, they destroy germs physically.
There are already some alcohol-tolerant strains of bacteria so the continued and widespread alcohol use may have poor long term impacts.
In the early 2000s, hospitals across Australia began installing more hand-sanitizer dispensers in their rooms and hallways for staff, visitors and patients to use. Research showed these alcohol-based disinfectants helped battle staph infections in patients and certain kinds of drug-resistant bacteria. And rates of these infections went down.
But other infections didn't drop when people started using the sanitizer stations. In fact, certain infections went up.
New research published by Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday shows that several strains of these bacteria have begun adjusting to alcohol-based hand sanitizers. They're not resistant to the alcohol — at least, not yet — but they're becoming "more tolerant" of it, the authors write. That means the bacteria were able to survive for longer periods of time after being doused with alcohol.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/02/6350177…
From the source that NPR linked to
We tested alcohol tolerance of 139 hospital isolates of E. faecium obtained between 1997 and 2015 and found that E. faecium isolates after 2010 were 10-fold more tolerant to killing by alcohol than were older isolates.
https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/452/eaar6115
@spaceflight: Intrerestingly,when making home brew sanitiser, ants went crazy on spilt methylated spirits…
Great just used it to fulfill the 5 transaction per bank limit to get my savings
OxBargainers would just paywave 1c splits of 5 while doing Woolies groceries ;)
Oh thanks for the idea honestly never thought like that.
Would always do 5 transactions on same item in 5 splits next time at Woolies
welcome ;)
Thanks OP
welcome
Now $5
max 24 packs per order