To ask why would someone use washable toilet wipes?

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I was reading an article this morning about a women who has made the switch to use washable toilet wipes instead of toilet roll. I honestly had no idea this was a thing, but from googling it looks like there are companies which make and sell these wipes.

The women claimed they were more environmentally friendly which I just don't understand. Surely you recycle the loo roll tubes and the paper disintegrates. Using wipes that you have to wash would be worse for the environment wouldn't it?

I cannot see why anyone would use such wipes am I missing something? Or is it as I suspect a new-fangled look at me and how environmentally aware I am statement?

Ugh...I use recycled toilet roll and recycle everything possible... Don't drive, go abroad, but local, use secondhand wherever I can
That's my contribution,I also like my friends to visit... imagine explaining wee/poo wipes!

Seriously confused I don't know how to respond to that

While I do use toilet roll, I understand PP's opinion, even if it is ott.

If you got shit on your arm, or your hand you wouldn't just wipe it with paper, why is your butthole different?

Do the people who use the re-usable bum wipes wash them out after each use, before putting in a bucket of milton? I could sort of see that working, if they're washed with soap and water at the time, then sterilised and into washing machine.

I might even try that...

“If you got shit on your arm, or your hand you wouldn't just wipe it with paper, why is your butthole different?”

Well you don’t prepare food, make up bottles, touch the kids toys or clean the kitchen with your bum hole do you?

The environmental issue is surely because recycling isn't 100% efficient and you still have to transport the loo-roll to the shop in a big lorry and the cardboard has to be transported to the recycling plant. Personally I would choose to help the environment in a different way as it's just too gross for me.

If you got shit on your arm, or your hand you wouldn't just wipe it with paper, why is your butthole different?

Well no but then my arse is covered by underwear and trousers so it's not touching anything. Plus I think by my age I am pretty good at cleaning up to ensure my arse has no shit left on it. It's not comparable really to getting poo on your hands and arms.

I've never tried one of those Japanese toilets. Do they squirt water? How do you ensure as a woman that you don't end up spreading the bum-bacteria to other parts of your anatomy?

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Your arse must reek tbh. Dirty sweaty bum crack at the end of the day? Clothing doesn't stop the spread of fecal matter of which you still have on your arse if you just use loo roll

A new MN low- a poster has just accused OP of having a smelly arse.

Does everyone else use wet wipes as well then? I agree on the ‘not just wiping shit off your arm with paper’ but what are the alternatives? If you don’t have a bidet that is.

Your arse must reek tbh. Dirty sweaty bum crack at the end of the day?

Ok I know this thread is about toilet rolls and washable toilet wipes and as such I expected comments about arses and poo, but that is so incredibly unnecessary and hurtful!

Nobodies arse reeks at the end of the day just because they wipe it with loo roll!

I’m imagining @AlphaBravo as some kind of Super Smeller whose late afternoons are tortured by the whiffs of smelly arse coming from her colleagues and fellow commuters.

Your arse must reek tbh. Dirty sweaty bum crack at the end of the day?

😂 Are you sure you're not the pooh-poster AlphaBravo? You sound very invested in the subject of other people's bums.

Removes skid marks coming from my arsehole! And more gentle as well.

We have a shittaf. Bought to spray the poop off the cloth nappies, but it's actually really useful for cleaning yourself!

I use washable wipes, so do my kids (DH choses not to). I use them for wees, and for poos I use toilet roll first then finish off with a washable wipes sprayed with water and an oil blend. The kids do the same. Then they all go into a small bin with some tea tree oil and get washed at 60 with flannels, towels and bed sheets.
I find I feel much cleaner than using toilet roll.
I originally did it to save money, to be honest. I use chopped up old t-shirts and bought some cheap flannels that I chopped up into 4. I was them every 2 or 3 days.

I also use cloth nappies and used the same ones on 3 babies .I have never weaved a lentil or knit porridge.

sorry, shattaf, not shittaf (though it is an apt name!).

*wash them every 2 or 3 days.

(That's why I couldn't do it!)

Do you have kids? I'm guessing theirs, and possibly your underwear goes in the wash with a trace of wee/poo on it anyway?

We have a special hose plumbed to the toilet for washing your bum. It's called a hand bidet, although I've seen them on UK websites referred to as a "muslim shower". Really common in many parts of the world, far less toilet roll is used and it's much kinder to your bum.

I got it in the first place when I had hemorrhoids in late pregnancy and remembered using them in India and had to try SOMETHING, and we've never looked back.

Yuck...

No I couldn't use them

We use washcloths often at work (carer) as loo roll isn't often enough. Or we use wipes and then water/flannel