Comparing GermProof® with Alcohol sanitizers

GermProof® vs. Alcohol

There's a nine out ten chance that your hand sanitizer is alcohol-based. So, let's talk about alcohol-based sanitizers. While being pretty effective against a variety of bacteria and viruses, they still come with many faults.

Keep in mind; GermProof ® is not classified as a hand sanitizer, it's so much more, hand sanitizers are classified as drugs, GermProof® is classified as a medical device. If you use an alcohol hand sanitizer for long, you will need to use GermProof® to heal your hands again and provide the proper protection and barrier. Here is what's wrong with alcohol sanitizers:

For alcohol-based sanitizers to be highly effective according to FDA recommendations, it has to contain 60-95% alcohol, which leads to the following problems:

Dry and even cracked skin, since alcohol in such high concentrations, acts as a very harsh, irritating solvent that strips your skin's moisture and natural, occurring skin oils need to stay healthy.
People with various skin ailments can not use alcohol-based sanitizers because it makes their conditions even worse.
Doctors and nurses worldwide hate alcohol-based sanitizers for making their skin dry and cracked, which in turn creates a severe issue of non-compliance with a hygienic regimen that leads to poor hygiene. According to statistics, poor hand hygiene is responsible for 40% of infections transmitted in hospitals. Such diseases are notoriously hard and expensive to treat and have a significantly high mortality rate.
Alcohol-based sanitizers are prone to substance abuse. A lot of US schools have banned the use of alcohol-based sanitizers on-premises for this very reason. Recently the US Navy also followed suit.
Alcohol-based sanitizers are highly flammable and qualify as a fire hazard.
Alcohol-based sanitizers do not possess residual antimicrobial activity at all due to the nature of alcohol evaporation.

For alcohol-based sanitizers to be effective, you have to rub the alcohol on your skin for 20 seconds or more before the alcohol evaporates. Now, ask yourself, how much time do you spend rubbing alcohol-based sanitizers over your skin, or better yet, the next time you use one, time yourself. You'll be surprised to find out that you're spending much less than the required twenty seconds applying your sanitizer, which means you're not getting the protection you hoped for, not even close!

Don't despair, though, there's a solution. It is GermProof®, the next generation protector. It's water-based and alcohol-free.

GermProof® Complex technology binds chelated silver with vegan chitosan to create a GermProof® barrier on skin and wounds. The active ingredients in GermProof® are chelated silver and vegan chitosan, do not confuse chelated silver with colloidal silver, there's a huge difference, and colloidal won't adhere to the skin.

'Chelated' refers to silver ions that are attached to the Chitosan molecule, turning them cationic or positively charged. This positive charge causes the particle to adhere to the naturally negatively-charged skin. 'Colloidal Silver', on the other hand, is a suspension of elemental silver which will not adhere to the skin or surfaces, as it is made up of solid particles. Most colloidal products are taken orally.

Chelated silver is more easily applied and more amenable to animal and human physiology than is colloidal silver. Documented laboratory testing has also demonstrated that chelated silver is [up to 10 times] more efficacious in preventing and eradicating a broad spectrum of microbes [including staph infections] and skin maladies.

Another significant and unique feature of GermProof® as compared to alcohol sanitizers is it's extended residual antimicrobial activity; it keeps working even after being applied, even when your hands are dry. Alcohol does not offer ongoing protection. Alcohol sanitizers don't help heal, and if put on wounds or burns they cause irritation and severe pain!

GermProof® is not prone to substance abuse because it's alcohol-free. It's also non-toxic. Thanks to Complex GermProof® technology, the amount of chelated silver in GermProof® is 200ppm, 4x higher than other solutions. Compare it with 60% alcohol concentration in alcohol-based sanitizers required by US FDA standards.

GermProof® is safe around children and even babies! GermProof® doesn't burn or sting; it has no odor, and even if ingested, it's harmless! Also, if sprayed into your eyes it's comparable to saltwater splashed into your eyes and is momentary!

GermProof®, being water-based, allows protective skin oils to stay in place. Unlike alcohol-based sanitizers, it is suitable for repeated use and will not harm your skin, even if your skin is damaged. If your skin is damaged, GermProof® will help it heal healthier and faster!

Scientific studies show that fragrances are also one of the most common allergens. GermProof® is fragrance-free; there's no risk of an allergic reaction due to a fragrance allergy.

GermProof® is safe to store and has a 30-month shelf life.

GermProof® vs. alcohol

Alcohol quits when it dries. We keep going for hours.

Nearly every sanitizer on the shelf is alcohol. Here’s what that costs your skin — and what a water-based silver barrier does instead, in a Spray and a Gel.

200 ppm chelated silver + vegan chitosan derived from mushrooms. No alcohol. The Gel never stings. Clear. Odor-free. Made in the USA.

Add Spray — $14.99 Add Gel — $17.99

GermProof Silver Spray and Silver Squeeze Gel

Side by side

Alcohol sanitizer & wipes

What you’re living with

✗ Needs 60–95% alcohol to do anything at all

✗ A solvent: it strips the natural oils out of your skin

✗ Dries, chaps and eventually cracks hands and knuckles

✗ Needs 20+ seconds of rubbing — nobody does 20 seconds

✗ Stops working the second it evaporates. Nothing is left behind

✗ Stings open cuts, scrapes and burns — and kids remember that

✗ Not for nostrils or ear canals

✗ Flammable, and a poisoning risk if a small child drinks it

✗ Usually fragranced, and the smell hangs around on your hands

GermProof® Spray & Gel

What you get instead

✓ Water-based: 200 ppm chelated silver + vegan chitosan derived from mushrooms

✓ No alcohol, so nothing is stripping your skin

✓ A moisturizing barrier — the Gel is what people use on skin alcohol already cracked

✓ Spray or dab it on and let it dry, about 30–45 seconds

✓ Forms an invisible breathable barrier that keeps working for hours*

✓ No sting at all — the Gel doesn’t even tingle on a scrape

✓ The Gel goes just inside nostrils and around ear canals

✓ Non-flammable and non-toxic, safe around kids, babies and pets

✓ Clear and odor-free. No parabens, no triclosan, no fragrance

*About 4–8 hours on hands and feet, depending on washing, sweating and wear. Up to 24 hours on hard surfaces.

Clear GermProof gel smoothed onto dry, cracked knuckles with a fingertip

The wipes problem

Cracked hands are the thing everyone complains about

Anyone who spent a couple of years on pump bottles and sanitizing wipes knows the feeling: tight knuckles, split fingertips, hands that catch on fabric. Nurses, teachers, cooks, cleaners, warehouse crews — the same story.

And it’s worse than uncomfortable. Cracked skin is broken skin, and broken skin is exactly where bacteria get in. So the harsher your sanitizer, the more it undoes.

Where the Gel comes in: it’s the one to reach for on already-chapped knuckles, split fingertips, cracked heels and dry cuticles. It goes on clear, it doesn’t sting, and it leaves a barrier instead of taking the oils out. This is the part of the range most people don’t know exists.

20 sec

The rub nobody does

Alcohol has to stay wet on your skin for 20 seconds or more. Time yourself next time — most of us are done in five, and then it’s gone.

60–95%

Harsh by design

That much alcohol is a solvent, and a solvent doesn’t know the difference between a germ and the oils your skin needs. Hence the cracked hands.

Hours

A barrier that stays

The GermProof® Complex is positively charged; your skin is negatively charged. It clings, forms an invisible breathable barrier, and keeps working after your hands are dry.

Alcohol content

Nothing to evaporate, nothing to catch fire, nothing to dry you out. Also nothing to smell — it’s odor-free.

Goes where alcohol can’t

Four places you’d never put an alcohol sanitizer — and the Gel is the tool for every one of them.

Gel

Inside the nostrils

A dab on a clean fingertip before a flight or a crowded room. No burn, and it doesn’t run back out.

Gel

On a scraped knee

Clean it, dab on the Gel, done — no sting, no negotiation, no crying. Alcohol on a fresh scrape is a fight every time.

Gel

Cracked knuckles and heels

A barrier that moisturizes rather than strips. This is the use case alcohol created and can’t fix.

Spray

Bare feet and surfaces

Locker rooms, pool decks, gym mats, tray tables, cart handles. Spray, wipe if it’s a surface, let it dry.

Switching over

Spray by the door and in the car. Hands in, hands out. Two or three pumps, rub, let it dry.

Gel in the bag. For the nose and ears, the scrapes, the rips and the cracked spots your sanitizer caused.

Keep washing. Soap and water still matters, and always after the bathroom. GermProof is the barrier in between.

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