From Helping Babies Breathe:

Good hand washing helps spread the spread of infection.Wash hands thoroughly with soap and clean water, or use an alcohol based cleaner before and after caring for mother and baby. Gloves protect you from infections carried by blood and body fluids.

Hand washing meditation - video

I have created this hand washing meditation as a way to arrive at a birth, wash my hands, become present, wash away germs, but also to wash away that which will not serve me for the birth.

Linde's thieves' oil hand wash recipe:

40 drops clove

35 lemon

20 drops cinnamon

15 eucalyptus

10 Rosemary.

That’s a concentrated essential oil blend then you can add it to whatever you want, gel, liquid soap base, water and alcohol spray.