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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KOPBET" data-source="post: 4389099" data-attributes="member: 4153">One plumber's take on it...<h3>How Triclosan Effects Plumbing</h3>Triclosan and similar antibacterial agents pose more harm than good to all living things, to our water supply and the environment.As the owner of a plumbing company, Coast View Plumbing, my team and I have noticed the drainage system of buildings that use antibacterial soaps were terribly clogged, more so than others.  We believe that these types of soaps kill beneficial bacteria in drains and reek havoc on the system.  Sludge in these drains look like black tar and are almost as hard as cement.Ultimately, it runs down drains into our waste water system.  This eventually meets up with our drinking water system via oceans, rivers, etc. and then guess what? We all get to drink it, <a href="https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/45/Supplement_2/S137/285530/Consumer-Antibacterial-Soaps-Effective-or-Just" target="_blank">making us all more resistance to antibiotics</a>.  It makes fish unable to reproduce.  Who’s next?  If you can avoid the stuff don’t use it. It hasn’t been proven to be beneficial to our health nor the health of our planet.</blockquote>