Your smartphone is 7 times dirtier than your toilet. Here's how to clean it.

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It goes into the bathroom with you. You use it in the kitchen. It often touches

your face, your desk and, well, just about any other surface within arm's reach.
It's your smartphone, of course. And the tasks listed above are just some of the reasons it's a breeding ground for germs and a cesspool of bacteria.
Don't just take our word for it.
Fecal matter can be found on 1 out of every 6 smartphones, according to a 2011 study done by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
"Mobile phones have become veritable reservoirs of pathogens as they touch faces, ears, lips and hands of different users of different health conditions," researchers observed in a 2009 study of bacteria removed from personal calling devices.

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