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Tide, like other detergents is composed of water softeners, bleach and enzymes. There other items as well, one is surfactants. This product washes away microbes and under some circumstances will kill bacteria. The microbes removed and/or kill would depend on the ones found on the laundry to be washed. Whatever would be found on a person's skin could be found on their clothes. There are about 100 different species. These are skin flora and include: Streptomycetes, Bacteroides, cyanobacteria and Bacilli.

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