Over-Washing and Your Hands
Key Takeaways: Protecting Your Hands from Over-Washing Frequent hand washing, while crucial for hygiene, often strips the skin’s natural oils and disrupts its protective barrier. This leads to dryness, redness, itching, cracking, and an imbalance in the skin’s vital microbiome. Harsh soaps, hot water, and excessive alcohol-based sanitizers are primary culprits in compromising hand health. […]