And Men how about that Lunch Pail?

Have you ever noticed gals who sit their handbags on public toilet floors, then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table?   Happens a lot!

It’s not always the ‘restaurant food’ that causes stomach distress.  Sometimes ‘what you don’t know will hurt you’!   Read on…

Mom got so upset when guests came in the door – where she was cooking or setting up food, and placed their handbag on her counter top.   She always said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they have been.   Turns out Mom was right again!

It’s something just about every woman carries with them.   While we may know what’s inside our handbags, do you have any idea what’s on the outside?   Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office – to public toilets – to the car floor.   Most women won’t be caught Without their handbags, but did you ever stop to think about where your handbag goes during the day?

We decided to find out if your fashion handbags harbor a lot of bacteria.  We learned how to test them at Nelson Laboratories, and then we set out to test the average woman’s handbag.

Most women told us they didn’t stop to think about what was on the bottom of their handbag.  Most said at home they usually set their handbags on top of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared.

Most of the ladies we talked to – told us they wouldn’t be surprised if their handbags were at least a little bit dirty.  It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty,  even the microbiologist who tested them was shocked.

Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly all – Of the handbags tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria.  Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aureus can cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coli found on the handbags could make people very sick.

In one sampling, four of five handbags tested positive for salmonella, and that’s not the worst of it. ‘There is fecal contamination on the handbags’ says Amy.  Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than cloth handbags, and lifestyle seemed to play a role.   People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags than those without, With one exception.

The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contamination’s of all.  Some type of feces, or possibly vomit says Amy.

The moral of this story is that your handbag may not kill you, but it does have the potential to make you very sick if you put it on places where you eat.

Use hooks to hang your handbag at home and in restrooms – don’t put it on your desk, table, or on your kitchen counter top.

Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a your shoes.  ‘Would you think of putting your shoes on Your counter top?  That’s the same thing you’re doing when you put your handbag on the counter tops’ -  Your handbag has gone where Individuals before you have sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, emptied bowels, need we say more?

The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a handbag will help.  Wash – cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of leather handbags.

Guys – What about that Lunch Pail?

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