Not using soap to wash hands

[hydrangeadangerea]

In a nutshell it’s comes to light that my DH doesn’t use soap to wash hands unless he is visibly dirty. So after wiping his bottom, his logic is, he doesn’t make contact with his bum himself so it’s fine to just rinse with some cold water.
This is a massive, unforgivable ick to me and I don’t think I can over look it.
Im a HCP so hygiene is engrained in my every move!

Also was nursing over 40 years. I had colleagues who didn't wash their hands. Our trust used Sparkling Betty, then UV light to show up the "germs" you missed. The trick is to moisturise,I keep hand cream next to the handwash,DH likes bar soap. You might show this to the folk on MN who say it's not necessary to wash your hands because you use toilet paper. You are unreasonable to say ick though. My 3 year old dgd said it recently, and it's the only time I've heard it outside of MN.

This is disgusting! It would seriously give me the ick

It's the soap that really cuts through and dissolves any grease, dirt and grime, which is there even though you can't always see it.

Washing without using soap is pretty ineffectual. Just rinsing really. Always use soap.

I'd tell him he's being disgusting.

Buy some of that gel that glows under black light and stick it on the flush handle or loo roll and then see where it ends up and show him.

use a hand cream everytime. I do the same. This is in response to person who finds hand s dry after frequent washing. Don’t know why it didn’t get posted directly under her question

Wetting his hands makes a nice breading ground for new germs.
Someone I know lets their child do this - he is always ill and snotty.

I used to use bar soap as a kid and teenager - I still suffered back then. I really, really cannot stand the feel of bar soap. I don’t know why, it’s really a massive struggle for me.

Pears liquid soap with 98 percent glycerin.

Water on its own does clean. In science it's known as the universal solvent. Not as good as soap though