article_snippet: Experts believe the nation's changing hygiene habits could be down to the public fear over international health scares such as last year's Ebola outbreak.
article_snippet: Charlotte Libby, Senior Beauty Analyst at Mintel, said: 'With health scares making headlines around the world throughout 2014, the spread of disease has raised awareness of how hand hygiene plays a part in preventing infection, causing an increase in the frequency of consumers washing their hands.'
article_snippet: Professor Vincent-Wayne Mitchell, a consumer marketing specialist at the Cass Business School in London, added that years of MRSA oubreaks and food hygiene scares had made people 'hygiene hyperconscious.'
article_snippet: Experts believe the nation's changing hygiene habits could be down to the public fear over health scares such as last year's Ebola outbreak .
highlights_snippet: Experts change could be down to fear over health scares such as Ebola .