[javagram]

Touching the soap doesn’t matter at all. You’re about to wash it all off your hands.

Soap and water definitely work to reduce infections, even when using a shared sink. Look up what happened in the 19th century when people finally figured this out and started hand washing regularly, infectious disease transmission in settings like hospitals dropped dramatically.

[copperx]

In the 19th century infections were cut drastically when hands were washed with water only. Imagine what soap can do.

[literallycancer]

They started from not washing hands between autopsies and surgeries though. Talk about low hanging fruit.