A quick rinse under the faucet is almost as good as a wash with soap and water, right?
Wrong. A quick rinse with water leaves lots of germs on your hands. Now fix some food for yourself and your friends and you've got a great recipe for passing disease around.  
 
Learn about keeping hands hygienic with the Lather Up! Hand Washing Activity Handbook (available at our bookstore) and with the great FREE stuff on this site. Check out the links below!

Know More

• Find out more about the science of microbes. Read Just What Are Germs Anyway?. (564KB PDF download )
• Find out more about the hygiene hypothesis. Read Can a Teaspoon of Dirt Keep the Doctor Away? (44KB PDF download )

FREE Games & Puzzles

• Dirty Hands Crossword Puzzle
• Dirty Hands Word Search
• Lather Up Matching 1
• Lather Up Matching 2
• Lather Up Mixup
• Lather Up Quiz

In the News

• Beyond Pesticides—The Ubiquitous Triclosan - A Common Antibacterial Agent Exposed
• The New York Times—The Curious Cook: Dip Once or Dip Twice?
• USA Today—Hand gels alone may not curb infections
• UN News Centre—Better Hand Hygiene Could Cut Mounting Toll of Health Care-Linked Infections
• Centers for Disease Control—Antibacterial Household Products: Cause for Concern

Visit our bookstore to see sample pages and to purchase this book.