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Originally Posted by nomadking
Basic soap doesn't break down coronaviruses. It just washes them down the plughole.
Beware non or low alcohol sanitisers are useless against it. It is the rinsing action of washing that takes the virus away from the hands.
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Well the chemist explains that it is held together by fatty chemicals and can be basically thought of as a particle of grease. So it can be broken by soaps, detergents and as you say sufficiently concentrated alcohol.