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How does washing your hands with soap inactivate coronaviruses that may be on your hands?

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When you wash your hands with soap and water, you surround any microorganisms on your skin with soap molecules. The hydrophobic tails of the free-floating soap molecules attempt to evade water; in the process, they wedge themselves into the lipid envelopes of certain microbes and viruses, prying them apart.

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Soap has chemicals that kill bacteria

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