If you're phobic about all the bacteria on your skin, you should wash yourself down with rubbing alcohol (UK: surgical spirits).
Then your skin will be free of all the harmless and beneficial microorganisms which normally live there, and some really nasty ones will be able to take up residence because they have no competition.
Manufacturers hype the benefits of antimicrobial soaps and scrubs, but outside the kitchen, hospital ward and operating theatre, they're unnecessary and can even be harmful.
Here's a fun fact: more than half the living cells on and in your body aren't actually human. https://www.sciencealert.com/how-many-bacteria-cells-outnumber-human-cells-microbiome-science
People who take strong antibiotics or have other treatments which completely destroy their gut flora often suffer acute problems before those bacteria are restored, and it's suspected that the normal western diet of highly refined foods screws up our gut flora so much that it causes various chronic illnesses.
We evolved in association with a host of bacteria species. We rely on them to help us digest our food, and many of those that live on our skin benefit us.
Also, that "rubbery" feeling after you soap and scrub twice is due to you removing all the natural oils from your skin. It's never made much sense to me why some people (women, in particular) are so fastidious about stripping off their natural skin oils once or even twice a day, and then slather on some overpriced manufactured gunk so they don't have dry skin. If you're feeling sticky and sweaty, a shower with a plain washcloth gets rid of that feeling. If you've got smelly or actually dirty bits, limit the use of soaps to there.
The natural oils will usually be back on your skin long before your next shower, so I still feel that soaping myself twice to remove it once a day won't leave my skin short of nessesary oils, and it will help keep from too much bacteria accumulating on my skin, because I'll also likely pick up more bacteria on my skin long before my next shower, so I'll be coming into contact with enough bacteria during the rest of the day where I'd not have the problem of not coming into contact with enough. You know how much bacteria is sitting on everything that the average person touches in a single day? Scrubbing good in the shower and changing to freshly washed clothes once a day is probably the perfect balance. If I don't scrub in the shower once a day, too much bacteria will accumulate on my body and I'll have undesirable b.o.
...how do you figure? All I do is point out when you say something wrong, ignorant and/or nasty. Or lie. On a public forum.
Keeping in mind that you continually attack my sexual life and physical appearance, when you know nothing about either, purely because I didn't agree with you on something.
Normal to soap each area twice in shower?
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If you're phobic about all the bacteria on your skin, you should wash yourself down with rubbing alcohol (UK: surgical spirits).
Then your skin will be free of all the harmless and beneficial microorganisms which normally live there, and some really nasty ones will be able to take up residence because they have no competition.
Manufacturers hype the benefits of antimicrobial soaps and scrubs, but outside the kitchen, hospital ward and operating theatre, they're unnecessary and can even be harmful.
Here's a fun fact: more than half the living cells on and in your body aren't actually human. https://www.sciencealert.com/how-many-bacteria-cells-outnumber-human-cells-microbiome-science
People who take strong antibiotics or have other treatments which completely destroy their gut flora often suffer acute problems before those bacteria are restored, and it's suspected that the normal western diet of highly refined foods screws up our gut flora so much that it causes various chronic illnesses.
We evolved in association with a host of bacteria species. We rely on them to help us digest our food, and many of those that live on our skin benefit us.
Also, that "rubbery" feeling after you soap and scrub twice is due to you removing all the natural oils from your skin. It's never made much sense to me why some people (women, in particular) are so fastidious about stripping off their natural skin oils once or even twice a day, and then slather on some overpriced manufactured gunk so they don't have dry skin. If you're feeling sticky and sweaty, a shower with a plain washcloth gets rid of that feeling. If you've got smelly or actually dirty bits, limit the use of soaps to there.
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Oh thanks, that's some real good advice. I will try to use less soap.
And I'm not OP by the way.
The natural oils will usually be back on your skin long before your next shower, so I still feel that soaping myself twice to remove it once a day won't leave my skin short of nessesary oils, and it will help keep from too much bacteria accumulating on my skin, because I'll also likely pick up more bacteria on my skin long before my next shower, so I'll be coming into contact with enough bacteria during the rest of the day where I'd not have the problem of not coming into contact with enough. You know how much bacteria is sitting on everything that the average person touches in a single day? Scrubbing good in the shower and changing to freshly washed clothes once a day is probably the perfect balance. If I don't scrub in the shower once a day, too much bacteria will accumulate on my body and I'll have undesirable b.o.
Only read to the rubbing alcohol. My god. Do NOT do that. That is terrible advice booj. I expect more from you.
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And if you'd read it properly, you would have noted the sarcasm.
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God you are a spiteful bitch
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...how do you figure? All I do is point out when you say something wrong, ignorant and/or nasty. Or lie. On a public forum.
Keeping in mind that you continually attack my sexual life and physical appearance, when you know nothing about either, purely because I didn't agree with you on something.
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Ok mel. Truce
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Why? How is calling out bullshit on a public forum not ok?
I'm fine with people doing it to me if needed, as I do to them. I readily admit when I'm wrong or make a mistake.
I'm not ok with attacking people based off of nothing, as you do. Calling you out on that does not equate to you spouting bullshit.
You're entitled to voice your opinion, for sure. But there are consequences to that, as with anything.