In 2020 the coronavirus (C19) pandemic brought to light the importance of hand hygiene, this can be seen by the rapid increase in sales of hand sanitisers and soaps, bringing into question whether this increase and the use of sanitisers can affect the detection methods used on latent fingerprints at crime scenes. It is important for forensic investigators to be able to develop latent prints however the use of hand sanitisers may change the way in which fingerprints are left or the effectiveness of the detection techniques making development either easier or more difficult. Additives such as humectants within the hygiene products could enhance the development techniques allowing for better developed prints. Based on this hypothesis, this research project analysed two alcohol hand sanitiser and two liquid hand soap to determine their effect on how fingerprints are left and the detection techniques that will be used. The fingerprints were taken from two donors, one male and one female, onto two different surfaces: glass, and plastic. They were asked to either wash their hands with liquid hand soap for twenty seconds (as stated in government guidelines) or use one pump of hand sanitiser, then they were asked to deposit their prints onto the individual surfaces straight away, ten minutes, thirty minutes and one hour later. Two types of detection methods were used to develop the latent fingerprints: magnetic powder (MP) and cyanoacrylate (CYA) fuming, once development had been carried out the results were photographed using a Huawei P30 pro camera phone. The research revealed that latent prints were still developable after soap or sanitiser use. MP was successful in developing partial to full prints overall, most of the male deposits were successfully developed whereas for the female CYA prints struggled to develop more than a partial print.