The Truth About UV Sanitizers

Do UV phone sanitizers actually work? I know that ultraviolet light can kill bacteria and viruses but can artificial UV lights do the same? That's the question I look to answer in this video. I bought a bacteria culture kit just so I could see just how bacteria and virus infested my smartphones touchscreen really is. I then put my phone through a 1 minute (30 seconds on each side) UV cleaning cycle in the HoMedics UV-Clean Phone Sanitizer and swabbed it again to see if the UV sanitizer actually did anything? In this video I also compare the UV sanitizers effectiveness to simply cleaning your phone screen using 70% isopropyl alcohol on a cotton ball. So if you're as curious as I was about how well a battery powered UV phone sanitizer actually works then I think you'll find the results of my tests quite interesting. Thanks for watching and enjoy. :)

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Time Stamps
0:00 – My phone has how much bacteria on it right now?!?!?
0:12 – My wife bought me this UV sanitizer as an anniversary gift
0:39 – The Amazing Bacteria Science Kit
0:55 – Trying my best not to contaminate my samples
1:27 – collecting all my samples
2:29 – how to use the HoMedics UV-Clean Phone Sanitizer
3:14 – sanitizing my phone with UV light
3:50 – And the results are in!
5:56 – So does this UV sanitizer work?

Music in this video - "Apolllo" by Patrick Patrikios from the YouTube Creator Studio Music Library

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[Maraksot]

Wanna skip to a particular part of the video? Use the Time Stamps. :)

Time Stamps
0:00 – My phone has how much bacteria on it right now?!?!?
0:12 – My wife bought me this UV sanitizer as an anniversary gift
0:39 – The Amazing Bacteria Science Kit
0:55 – Trying my best not to contaminate my samples
1:27 – collecting all my samples
2:29 – how to use the HoMedics UV-Clean Phone Sanitizer
3:14 – sanitizing my phone with UV light
3:50 – And the results are in!
5:56 – So does this UV sanitizer work?

[jimmying]

Thanks for taking your time to do this.

[JYvetteA]

Really great thorough experiment! Thank you for your detailed work!

[kayli.c]

awesome dude!!! this was so through and sick! i can tell how curious you really were, you definitely put some work into this experiment and video! 👍👍

[DottyGale]

Yep, I'll continue using alcohol. A lot less expensive and works better. Thanks for convincing me I'm already doing the best method.

[ImSchneckenhaus]

I am also skeptical with things like these. But if its as effective as using an alcohol wipe to your phone, maybe imma stick with the wipes for now~

[rubytoledo]

Best product review on Facebook! Thank you for

[jojouche]

Thank you for doing this 🙏🏾 I legit got this for my dad this Christmas having the receipt on hand in case it doesn’t work.

[Dave]

I'm more curious if its ok for the phone. A quick google search says Apple does not recommend for the iPhone. I would worry about the screen being impacted by the light, or the camera lens. Might be too early to try this a lot with a new expensive phone.

[terinsrandomlife]

Hey that reminded me of science class! Now you need a microscope to look at all that bacteria up close and then we can label them lol microbiology my favorite 😂
Thanks for the video, I like this one!

[julianneedsblood]

Do you think if it went on for a minute or longer it would be cleaner?

[Lizs]

People do need to keep their immune system to protect them. Unfortunately most people don’t keep their immune system healthy that’s why they are sick all the time!!! Notice docs don’t tell you about keeping the immune system healthy. If they did you wouldn’t see them much and help pay for their big homes, fancy cars, boats etc. you get my point. Hopefully!
Stay healthy, happy! ☺️

[omnitvz]

Funny how it's quicker and cheaper to just use alcohol wipes.

[cuebj]

Why the silly voice and expressions? Content is quite good, trying to appear to be an airhead undermines your content. Having done some Microbiology at start of my degree in Biochemistry, I can say your methodology is a pretty decent home science procedure, well done. Given that a typical bacterium reproduction rate is to double every 20 minutes, the benefit of the UV is minimal - it just delays the rate of bacterial growth - so the alcohol treatment is better. Going deeper, it would be interesting to see which bacteria are affected by that UV treatment and which are unaffected. That's where a lab comes in