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Clean and sanitize your hands. Also good to use for a Childs cut to clean up before you put a bandage on. Or to use after using a public bathroom. To wipe a Childs face at a restaurant. Or wipe off your pee pee when you have sex somewhere you dont have access to toilet paper. Theres all kinds of uses for a wipe.

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to clean the area around a wound or injection site, to eliminate the possibility of contamination or infections.

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They are also sometimes known as alcohol wipes. They are used to clean a wound and kill bacteria.

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