Best Hand Soap for College Students World Wide

By Clean Review Magazine

For three decades Clean Review Magazine has helped provide college students with up to date information on all cleaning products. This feasibility report will provide the results of our testing on four well known hand soaps. Eskender Kidane, Warren Kissi, Christopher Miller , Caleb Willis 11/11/2013

Explaining the Introduction

Many college campuses house germs and other grime that impact the health of college students walking the hallways and streets of universities worldwide. Because of these health concerns, many universities place a great value on the concept of cleanliness and this appears in the use of hand soaps. We at Clean Review Magazine give our youthful student audience the best information available on which hand soaps provide clean, comfortable, and efficient service for your hands and body. We have decided with this years issue, four hand soaps will be used for further examination. (A) Dial: White Tea & Vitamin E (B) Soft Soap: Black Raspberry & Vanilla (C) Lysol: Touch of Foam, Antibacterial Hand Wash (D): Kroger Hand Soap: Honey Citrus & When reading our review, college students must understand the overall criteria we use in describing and selecting the best hand soap including our rate system entitled Clean Number.

Explaining the Criteria

Price per Ounce: Many college students live on a tight monthly budget. Hand soaps that provide the most value for college students to save money. Cleanliness: the main objective of hand soap is to remove dirt and germ. Visual Appeal to the masses: Any hand soap logo must have a degree of visual aesthetics that entices college students to purchase them. Lather: The frothy mixture of white bubbles allows college students to experience a comfortable and smooth texture throughout the washing process. Female college students consider heavily the texture of the lather on their hands.

Explaining Clean Number

The rating system entitled Clean Number is the formal rating system our magazine company uses to declare which hand soap provides the best service for the hygiene of college students. Clean Number contains the numbers 1-5. 1: Poor/Fail 3.5: Average 5: Wins/ Complete Pass

Pricing per Ounce Instructions

For this experiment we found the volume in ounces on the bottom of the label and the prices were recorded prior to purchasing the soap. We took the price of hand soap and divided the volume in ounces; this gives us the price per ounce for the hand soaps. Brand Price Volume in ounces Price per Ounce Lysol $1.97 8.5 $0.23 Dial $1.60 7.5 $0.21 Soft soap $1.09 5.5 $0.20 Kroger Hand Soap $1.00 7.5 $0.13 Table 1: prices and volume in ounces for the hand soaps in our study

Results
The results from the table above show that the most affordable product per ounce is the Kroger hand soap which has a clean number of 4. The hand soap with the least clean number value was the Lysol hand soap which had a clean number value of 2..This means that generic hand soaps sold to customers by Kroger are generally cheaper in price compared to name brand soaps

Cleanliness test Instructions

For this experiment we tried to observe which hand soap was able to remove a stain on each hand. 1. We marked our hands with a black sharpie pen which simulates a dirt stain. 2. We lathered each hand soap on our hands for 15 seconds 3. We rinsed off the lather for 5 seconds 4. The hand soap that erased the mark was most effective in cleanliness.

Results
According to the clean number, the soap with the least clean number was the Kroger hand soap which scored a 3. The Kroger hand soap lacked the ability to remove the sharpie stain. However, the hand soap with the highest rating for cleanliness was the Dial hand soap which scored a clean number of 4. The Dial hand soap erased the sharpie stain on our hands. The bar graph illustrates which hand soap had the highest clean number in alphabetical order. The chart below presents a black and white photo of the results for better visual contrast.

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Chart 1 Soap A Before after Black & White

Visual Appeal Test Instructions

For this experiment to remove bias, we polled twenty-five college students on a university campus. Each participant was instructed on a separate piece of paper to write which brand of soap appealed to them visually over the competitors, and to also provide key words to why they believe their choice was the best. There are two components that are calculated in this test to pick a winner. The first result consists of tallying the number of total participants, and their opinion to which hand soap they believed was more visually appealing. The second result consists of individual participants and why they believed that their choice of hand soap was visually appealing.

Results
According to the visual appeal poll Soft Soap scored a clean number of 5 and emerged as the victor with forty-four percent of the votes. One participant commented that the Soft Soap had, The dark purple contrasts [well] against the red raspberry the bottle resembles a vase, which makes it look more decorative than a utility. We scored the Lysol hand soap with a clean number of 4 and the bottle received a clean number of 4 well-rounded forty percent of the votes. Participants concentrated on the bright pink color of the liquid as well as the thick neck of the pump. The Kroger hand soap scored twelve percent and one participant stated that the bottle appeared Welcoming and creamy. The Dial hand soap received a clean number of 2, and four percent of the popular opinion was the least visually appealing. One participant, when asked why they did not vote for the Dial hand soap commented, The bottle appears bland whereas the rest of these [soaps] are all vibrant and colorful.

Visual Appeal Poll

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Lather Test Instructions

This experiment determines which hand soap will produce the most lather. For the purpose of this study, we defined 'lather' as the amount of frothy bubbles that appeared while washing one's hands. 1)Four similar bowls were placed side by side, labeled A though D. 2) Each bowl was filled with 5 cm of normal tap water. 3) In each bowl, we inserted three pumps of each Hand Soap. 4) Under a controlled water supply, a steady amount of water was introduced to each bowl for thirty seconds. (The purpose of this is to create a layer of bubbles on the surface of the water.) 5) Using a ruler, we measured each layer of bubbles and recorded the data as seen in the bar graph below. 6) Based on this data, we assigned each product a clean number. Refer to chart 2 for the lather measurements of the following hand soaps

Dial Soap: 10.5 cm

Soft Soap: 7cm

Lysol Soap: 1cm

Kroger Soap: 5.5cm

Results
The hand soap that scored a 5 on our clean number was the Dial hand soap. The Dial hand soap produced 10.5 cm of frothy bubbles (lather) compared to the rest of the hand soaps. The Lysol hand soap produced 1 cm of later in what we considered the least amount of lather and finally the Lysol hand soap scored a clean number of 1.

Conclusion
The several experiments we have conducted have shown that the best hand soap college students should purchase is the Dial hand soap. The Dial hand soap passed the first pricing per ounce experiment by coming in second place. College students can purchase the hand soap for $1.60 and receive the most soap for the least value. The Dial hand soap scored a 5 on the clean number for the lather test. The Dial hand soap managed to produce 10.5cm of lather compared to the rest of the hand soaps which lacked that ability. The Dial hand soap scored a 4 for the cleanliness experiment and received the highest clean number for that particular experiment. The Dial hand soap managed to erase the sharpie stain on one of the participant hand, which shows that the hand soap was effective in cleanliness. If college students are looking for effective, clean, affordable hand soap we at Clean Review Magazine recommend Dial: White Tea & Vitamin E