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Hand Washing

Fri Nov 2, 2007, 4:07 PM
People don't really realize this about me, but I am very obsessive about hand hygeine. So I noticed that I am, the only one I have ever witnessed, who puts soap on FIRST, then lathers, THEN wets their hands and washes (and relather while washing). I can understand that people equate the lathering power of water + soap with cleansing power, but I've actually found with the tougher dirt, it's more efficient to rub the syrupy sludge of soap alone into the hands, then lather and rinse. The sludge adhere's like sticky tape to the dirt and grime and THEN the water washes it all away. (especially if you're working on cars... but that can actually require more than mere soap... something with grit in it like the orange hand cleaner at autozone stores) Anyways, weather it's more efficient, or weather I'm just dillusional, the point is that I don't know anyone else who washes their hands like that. Anyone? Anyone out there like me?! :(

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~ShrimpuS Nov 2, 2007, 5:00:05 PM
When I worked in a press shop we had this sandy (as in like sand) soap and you had to run it on first so the harder particles would get rid of the bigger dirt (in that case ink). Because if you use water and then soap it indeed cleans less.

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~DarkZombie Nov 2, 2007, 5:27:11 PM
Sooo... Professionals soap up first, then wash. hmmm... perhaps I'm too advanced for civilized society

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~ScarecrowFox Nov 6, 2007, 1:28:19 PM
What about the foam soap they brought out?

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~DarkZombie Nov 6, 2007, 4:19:42 PM
I went to hospital orientation once, and they said we cannot rely on that stuff. There are certain bacteria and spores that are not only immune to the disinfecting agent in them, but it will also stick to your hands, and only soaping up, and rinsing stuff off with water will remove them. I actually have both kinds of soap at my home nowdays. First I use the regular soap, then I use the alcohol based hand sanitizer, that way I rinse off debris and spores and bacteria, then I dry, then I rub in the alcohol based sanitizer to kill off anything simple rinsing didn't get rid of. It's not the foam, but I think they're almost exactly the same thing, since the foam has the same smell and isn't supposed to be rinsed off.

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"It's winter for crying out loud! Winter should act like winter!" - Ogiue, Genshiken

"They'd map out roads through Hell with their crackpot theories!" - Grendel, by John Gardner
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~ScarecrowFox Nov 7, 2007, 1:38:12 PM
I can't stand the foam soap. We've got it at school and I try to avoid using the school's restrooms and I go through all of my friends' bags to get their anti-germ lotions and santitizers and I go nuts with them until I get home.

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~DarkZombie Nov 7, 2007, 8:14:59 PM
Well... they (hand snanitizers) are only useless in the fact that people believe they are a substitute for regular hand soap. They are actually good for sterilizing the germs that regular soap doesn't wash off... but I do hate how the world is moving towards this white-gloved STERILE society where germ-iphobes live in an imaginary plastic bubble... we've all become TOO afraid of any little germ that might break our "bubble" of safety.

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"It's winter for crying out loud! Winter should act like winter!" - Ogiue, Genshiken

"They'd map out roads through Hell with their crackpot theories!" - Grendel, by John Gardner
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