Most public restrooms offer paper towels, a hand dryer or a combination of both to dry your hands after you wash. Germs can be transferred more easily to and from wet hands than dry hands, according ...

Electric hand dryers are eco-friendly — but may hide a dirty secret. In an effort to save the environment, public restrooms have begun offering electric hand dryers in place of paper towels, but a ...

Which hand dryer is best? While frequent and thorough handwashing has become a mantra in the public health arena, the job is never finished until the drying stage. Some public restrooms offer ...

Modern hand dryers are much worse than paper towels when it comes to spreading germs, according to new University of Leeds research. Scientists from the University of Leeds have found that ...

Public utility restrooms and bathrooms contain germs and viruses, the reason these areas keep hygienic equipment to reduce the spread of sickness-causing germs. Little do we know, hygienic equipment ...

A senior doctor has written to England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty to raise her "grave concern" that electric hand dryers in toilets could increase the risk of transmission of coronavirus.

Everyone in the cleaning industry has always been told that hand dryers in restrooms are not sanitary; they spread germs and bacteria around. I always thought that this just came from the paper ...

Virtually all the major appliances in my off-grid home run on gas, including the refrigerator. Our gas dryer has been a workhorse since we purchased the property in 2006, and it wasn’t new when we ...

While frequent and thorough handwashing has become a mantra in the public health arena, the job is never finished until the drying stage. Some public restrooms offer single-use paper towels, while ...