Washing With Soap and Water
- Soap and Water Home
- How It Works
- Don't Forget to Wash
- Be A Germ-Buster
- With a Nailbrush
- Fact Sheet
- Wash Your Hands (in 24 languages)
- Wash Your Hands Posters
- Health in Your Hands Posters
Hand Hygiene
- Hand Hygiene Home
- Soap and Water
- Hand Sanitizer
- Why and When
- Choosing and Using Soap
- Teaching Hand Hygiene
- For Schools and Child Care
- For Food Handlers
- For Health Care Professionals
- Posters and Print Materials
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Contact Info
Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division
651-201-5414
Washing Hands with Soap and Water
Wash Your Hands!
Posters, fact sheets, and more about washing your hands with soap and water.
How it works:
- How It Works: Washing Hands with Soap and Water
Components to washing with soap and water, the proper technique, and how washing with soap and water works.
How to posters:
- Be A Germ-Buster... Wash Your Hands Poster (How-to Hand Washing)
This poster showing the six steps to cleaner hands could be hung in restrooms to reinforce proper hand washing technique. This poster was adapted with permission from the Washington State Department of Health and is available for download in fourteen languages.
- Don't Forget to Wash
This simple poster (available in two color options) shows six simple steps to washing hands.
- Handwashing with a Nail Brush
This poster showing the eight steps to washing hands using a nail brush could be hung in restrooms to reinforce proper hand washing technique.
More handwashing posters:
- Wash Your Hands Posters
These simple posters remind people to wash their hands.
- Wash Your Hands (in 24 languages)
This poster simply says "wash your hands" in twenty-four languages.
- Health in Your Hands Posters
These Minnesota's Health/Your Health is in your Hands Posters are for food workers.
Fact sheet:
- Make Hand Washing a Healthy Habit
Fact sheet about hand washing.
Videos:
- How to Wash Your Hands Video Transcript (PDF)
- How to Wash Your Hands: Audio Described (YouTube)
- How to Wash Your Hands: ASL (YouTube)
- How to Wash Your Hands: Amharic (YouTube)
- How to Wash Your Hands: Arabic (YouTube)
- How to Wash Your Hands: Chinese (YouTube)
- How to Wash Your Hands: Hmong (YouTube)
- How to Wash Your Hands: Karen (YouTube)
- How to Wash Your Hands: Russian (YouTube)
- How to Wash Your Hands: Somali (YouTube)
- How to Wash Your Hands: Spanish (YouTube)
- How to Wash Your Hands: Vietnamese (YouTube)
Last Updated: 05/03/2024