DepHyze™ Foaming Hand Sanitizer
DepHyze™ Foaming Hand Sanitizer is an extremely safe, effective, non-irritating, non-flammable, non-staining alternative to alcohol-based hand sanitizers. In addition to sanitizing a wide range of common or dangerous microbes with unprecedented efficacy (99.999% reduction of Staphylococcus Aureus, for instance), DepHyze™ Foaming Hand Sanitizer is also 3 times more effective than the leading brand of alcohol-based hand sanitizer at sanitizing Norovirus.
Until now, even the most well-run and hygienic restaurants, cruise ship lines, etc., have only been able to offer sanitizing rates of 99.99% against common microbes, using alcohol or ethyl-based hand sanitizers. While 99.99% may sound impressive to people thinking back to test scores in school, in the world of germ eradication, this is barely better than washing with mere soap and water (99.9%), leaving thousands of microbes alive to reproduce and repopulate their environment. In short, a surface that has been “cleaned” to 99.99% is not truly bacteria free, is not at all sterile, and will often soon be teaming with bacteria. To prevent this, one must sanitize the germs to what scientists call “5 log reduction” (meaning five nines or 99.999%). With DepHyze™ Foaming Hand Sanitizer, you can achieve this level of efficacy for the safety of your passengers and crew.
Not only are alcohol-based hand sanitizers less effective germ sanitizers, but they cause other problems as well. Because alcohol removes the skin’s oil, which is one of our bodies’ natural defenses against bacteria, repeated use of alcohol actually increases skin bacteria five hours later.1 Repeated usage can also lead to dry hands and painful irritation that lasts for days.
Alcohol-based sanitizers do not offer enough protection
against Norovirus and other germs (only 99.99%). To achieve up to a 5 log reduction (99.999), on most tested organisms, use DepHyze™ Hand Sanitizer. DepHyze Foaming Hand Sanitizer’s active ingredient is benzalkonium chloride, an alcohol-free antimicrobial compound that has been widely used in hospitals for more than 60 years in surface cleaners, sterilizing agents, and leave-on FDA Monograph, anti-bacterial skin treatments.
Benzalkonium chloride-based leave-on hand sanitizers have demonstrated efficacy in real-world environments. In elementary schools, non-alcohol benzalkonium chloride-based leave-on hand sanitizers reduced illness absenteeism by 30-40% in double-blind, placebo-controlled studies versus hand washing alone.
In a study performed to simulate repeated usage, an alcohol-based formulation and an alcohol-free benzalkonium chloride-based formulated hand sanitizer were compared. In the study, subjects’ hands were repeatedly inoculated with bacteria followed by application of hand sanitizer, then evaluated for antimicrobial effectiveness. The antimicrobial efficacy of the alcohol-based hand sanitizer showed a markedly decreased antimicrobial efficacy with subsequent contamination and decontamination cycles, whereas the alcohol-free benzalkonium chloride-based hand sanitizer showed a steady increase in antibacterial efficacy.
In addition to these objective results, subjects were asked to subjectively evaluate the condition of their hands after the completion of the test protocol. Forty-seven percent (47%) of the alcohol-based hand sanitizer users reported pain or discomfort on their palms, and tended to indicate continued discomfort for one to several days after the test. In contrast, none of the subjects that used alcohol-free benzalkonium chloride-based sanitizer reported any pain or discomfort of their hands after completing the test protocol.
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