Fig. 1

Sanitizing Efficacy of Patanjali Hand Sanitizer (PHS). a Representative digital images of bacteriological plates with thumb print from the same volunteer before (i) and after sanitization with either standard hand sanitizer (+ ve control) (ii) or PHS (iv). Plate image with thumb prints after washing with water is taken as –ve control (ii). b Sanitization efficacy is represented as % potency through a scatter plot. Statistical significance was determined through one-way ANNOVA employing Tukey’s multiple comparison testing and observation represented as ***p < 0.001, when significantly different relative to the negative control