Athletic Body Care

[zombie]

im definitly gonna try this anybody know if defence soap is good to use with this product?

[CDRPyro]

im definitly gonna try this anybody know if defence soap is good to use with this product?

I wouldnt waste the time with defense soap if you're gonna get this stuff. The body wash smells better and makes your skin smoother than defense. Plus it kills more than just bacteria. I was using defense for a while but wanted something that killed fungus (ringworm). In my opinion, this is much, much better. Knock on wood, I've yet to have a breakout of anything since I've been using it for over a year.

[Ronin50]

What about the "good" bacteria that lives on our skin? Does this product kill that bacteria too, after-all, that was one of the criticisms of triclosan besides it being a nasty chemical? It is my understanding that an imbalance of bacteria will actually promote skin infections and fungus. I just use good hygiene and a healthy diet and I have not had any problems. I'm not opposed to using a product like ABC, I am just curious if anyone else has brought up this question about these products.

[drx604]

can u get this stuff in Canada?

[ABC]

This issue always comes up. We all know there are good germs (resident
flora) that live below our skin in a nice harmonious fashion. Bacteria, yeasts, molds, fungus, mites, etc.

Bad germs or transient flora, live on the SURFACE of our skin. They are responsible for infecting us when they enter our bodies through various "portals of entry" (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, cuts, etc). AthleticBodyCare kills only the bad or transient flora, not the good or resident flora.
In fact, there is really no way to kill the good flora since even after a five minute surgical scrub by a physician, the resident flora still exists. There is no way anything alive can be sterile (absence of ALL organisms). Surgically clean is the best you can get, and that is after a five minute scrub with surgical soap and a BRUSH.

Ironically, since alcohol gels evaporate so rapidly, in a study from I believe 1994 by General Foods Laboratory, they prove that since alcohol evaporates so rapidly that it actually can PULL good bacteria from below the skin to the surface of the skin where it becomes bad bacteria. In other words, they show that alcohol-gels can actually increase the amount of germs on the skin. If you are an individual who harbors MRSA (Methicillin resistant staph) or VRE (Vancomycin resistant entercoccus), then you have now put a deadly pathogen on the surface of your skin that could infect you or others and was being kept in check before by the nice equilibrium created below the skin in the world of our resident flora.