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. 

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