Which is most effective at killing household & cold germs, bleach solution or rubbing alcohol?

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Bleach will do fine Both are effective and will work. But don't go overboard - you can't wipe out all microbes everywhere. Some of them are even beneficial.

Sources: 38 years an MD .

Soap and water will kill most household germs. The advertisements on t.v. Are trying to scare the good people of the world.

If I were you just by a name brand cleaner with a scent that you prefer. I am sure you will be safe. We all get colds and germs.

That is what made you live this long on this planet. Your probably immune to hundred of thousands of cold strains. But there are millions.So the cold you get today you will not get next year.

I prefer the bleach solution I always keep an old dish liquid squirt bottle filled with bleach and water 50/50 mix. I squirt some solution on the damp dish rag or sponge and wipe down all the counters, stove top, sink, use it for cleaning up pet accidents (on a paper towel), kills mold or mildew in the tubs and showers, give a squirt into the toilets and brush, squirt on landscaping timbers that are going green, wet down cement and squirt with bleach solution, kills slippery moss and mold on bricks, great to treat a stain on white laundry on the way into the machine. I tried to use my bleach solution in a 'spray bottle' but the sprayer didn't last too long so I switched to the 'squirt bottle'.

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Bleach. Bleach is better at killing bacteria. Bleach kills 99.9%.

Alcohol kills 95%. The cold is caused by viruses, which can't be killed. about.com/od/productreviews/gr/cloroxanywhere.htm"Clorox" rel="nofollow">housekeeping.about.com/od/productreviews... Hard Surface Spray kills 99.9 percent of bacteria on hard surfaces.... Clorox Hard Surface Spray contains sodium hypochlorite as its active ingredient.

This is essentially highly diluted bleach. "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubbing_alcohol"In order to reduce the skin bacterial count to 5% of normal, 70% ethanol must be left on the skin for at least 2 min" Sources: about.com and wikipedia .

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