Is Regular Soap Effective As Antibacterial Soap

Experiment 1 Transcript

Slide 1.) Hello, I am Samantha Reil and I will be conducting an experiment that compares two different kinds of hand soaps. I look forward to taking you on this journey of my experiment process.

Slide 2.) Is regular soap just as effective as antibacterial soap at getting rid of microbes? The reasoning behind this question is to see which soap removes the most microbes. Also, to see if regular soap removes just as many much microbes as antibacterial soap does.

Slide 3.) This slide also explains why I want to do this experiment and that is to compare the effectiveness of each soap.

Slide 4.) For me to answer my question I am going to perform two different experiments. The first experiment will consist of me swabbing

The gram stain showed bacteria that was rod-shaped. Therefore, I search a picture of Klebsiella pneumoniae and it looked close to what I saw under my microscope. Furthermore, I concluded that the regular soap did not get rid of this bacterium.

Slide 16.) If I were to do this experiment again, I would try using a soap bar and liquid soap. I would also have multiple people do this experiment that way I could see if they get similar results. Lastly, I would just change the length of time for washing your hands with each soap to see if that changes the results of which soap is more effective at removing microbes.

Slide 17.) This section of our textbook relates to my experiment simply because it just explains that soap does not kill bacteria it simply removes it. Therefore, my experiment is about removing microbes from your hands while washing them with soap and my experiment helps explain which soap is more effective at removing those microbes.

Slide 18.) In our book, it talks about how soap manufactures had to explain the importance of antibacterial soaps and in my experiment, I did something similar by comparing the effectiveness of antibacterial soap and regular