If I handle raw meat and then wash my hands with a bar of soap, isn’t the soap bar crawling with bacteria all over it? What if there is a piece of fecal matter on the soap that I don’t notice and I wash my hands with this matter of soap and fecal matter, are my hands really cleaner?
Soap is just a “wetting agent” that allows water to mix w/ oils and other foreign matter to put it into solution. The mechanical action and the water should remove most harmful bacteria, even if the soap is slightly contaminated.
My sister, with three small boys at the time, said that in her house the soap had to be washed before each use.
Seems to me that is due to wanting the appearance of everything being spick and span, more than being a necessity.
FYI my mrs spingears is a clean freak, she would do as your sister, whether it is needful or not. :rolleyes:
When you wash with dirty soap, the soap first, and then your hands get cleaned up in one operation.
Well, what’s the last thing I wash with the bar of soap in the shower, and what’s the first thing you wash?
Yeah, it was funnier in context on Friends.
I am reminded of the the Law of the Conservation of Filth I once read about. “Nothing can become cleaner unless something else becomes dirtier.”
Soap will kill a sizable share of bacteria on its own. And many brands now have ‘anti-bacterial’ ingredients added to enhance this effect.