soda might really be unhealthy

I started to in in-corporate cans and bottles . Any way I found 300 of them all mixed up in dirt and grass as was from a closed down store. Almost all the bottles were full so i drained all of them and plenty of soda got on my hands , some times i was washing the dirty bottles with the soda along with my hands . Was a messy $15 . I noticed the soda dried my hands out bad and also created some kinda embedded dirt thing . I feel soda does harm to the body as my hands really responded as if they were dealing with a chemical. No way soda can be good