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Your immune system is a critical layer of protection keeping you healthy, happy, and active. It's the way your body fights off everything from bacteria to viruses to fungi to allergens. While the immune system doesn't always work exactly as it should, it's constantly working to keep environmental germs and low-grade exposure to pathogens out of your systems. Can You Boost Your Immune System? Before we go into talking about ways you might boost your immune system, let's first talk about if it's even possible. So, is it? Can you boost your immune system? The idea of boosting your immune...

Because of the current global pandemic, hand sanitizer is quickly becoming part of people's every day carry list of items. Small bottles have found their way into purses, on keychains, and in cars the world over. Shortages in sanitizer have even led to a variety of different breweries to temporarily convert their facilities to the production of the alcohol-based substance. We've been covering hand sanitizer in a few different ways recently. We've talked about how much you should use, and about whether or not you should use it after washing your hands. We've also talked about using it to sanitize...

Any time you look at cleaning products, you can probably find a message somewhere on it explaining that it's really quite effective. After all, it kills 99.99% of germs! That's practically all of them! Well, it's not actually all of them. Germs are extremely tiny microorganisms, and you can have trillions upon trillions of them on your hands at any given time. In fact, it's pretty much guaranteed that you do. They live on every surface, they live in water, they live in the air. You can wash your hands or use hand sanitizer, but within a few minutes, the...

If you've ever spent time looking at your hand sanitizer bottle – and you might, now more than ever – you've probably seen the myriad little air bubbles suspended throughout the sanitizer. You might have wondered if they're meant to be there. You may wonder what purpose they serve (if any). So what's the story? Well, for one thing, the bubbles are not "meant" to be there, but they're nearly impossible to remove. That's why virtually every image you see has bubbles in it, even the official product photos published by the people making and selling the hand sanitizer. Some...