I finished pooping and realised my liquid hand soap had run out, so I used a body soap bar to wash them. I had to go outside and use the hand soap in another bathroom to make sure my hands were clean.

Can you use body soap to wash hands properly?

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Wait, back up.

    Did you wash your hands, or did you just stand there like a creep, watching your hands wash eachother?

    Weirdo.

  • Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    yes, its practically the same thing. Both contain surfactants, which is the stuff that allows you to rinse off oils and fats with water.

  • Fermiverse@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Soap, beside giving a good smell, has one job. It breaks up the water surface tension to enable it cleaning of the skin surface. Normally the water would not reach the wrinkels of the skin and would not take the contamination off it.

    So any soap is good to go. The other stuff in soap like smell and moisture effects don’t matter that much in general and are overrated imoho.

    • DessertStorms@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      The other stuff in soap like smell and moisture effects don’t matter that much in general and are overrated imoho.

      as someone with sensitive skin - hard disagree, you should be glad your hands don’t turn bright red and itch for days because you used the wrong soap (that said - it doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive, but there’s definitely a difference in quality and some soaps will just strip some peoples’ skin)

  • z500@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I would say yes, but I tried using Duke Cannon soap on my hands for a while and it dried them out something fierce

  • Timwi@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    I was actually kind of confused at first about the liquid and bar soap thing. I’ve used bar soap to wash my hands all my life, and for nothing else. To wash the whole body during a shower, I use liquid soap (called shower gel) and I would find bar soap unwieldy. Moral of the story: your insistence on using one vs the other is entirely cultural.

    Fun fact: even washing-up liquid (dish soap) can be used to wash your hands in a pinch.