To think loo roll is not enough

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Not the nicest subject in the world -sorry!

I live abroad and bathrooms have bidees (spelling) I don’t use these, but always use wet toilet wipes which are said to be easily disposable here and not harmful to the environment
Since doing this it makes me think how normal loo roll paper is pretty gross and just can’t possibly get you properly clean 😬

Oh here we go, yet another overly obsessive hygiene related MN thread. As pps have already mentioned so many of you seem to care nothing for our world and the way it is going environmentally - you just create more and more unnecessary waste. People managed with normal loo paper for a very long time, suddenly it's not enough.

Edited to say I have never encountered anyone worrying about this in real life, only on MN (along with many other batshit theories), and I've never been to anyone's home where they have anything more than loo roll.

I also hope none of you hygiene freaks ever get caught up in a natural disaster where there is no running water - you really won't cope - and what do you do when you visit a public loo, or go to the loo at work? No, don't tell me - you don't poo away from home. 😁

I use a peri bottle and tissue as I suffer from chronic UTIs so it’s extremely important that I’m clean. If you got poo on your arm, you wouldn’t use tissue, you’d wash it off! People who use tissue alone are walking around with bacteria-laden arses. Shudder.

If I got poo on my arm, I wouldn't just squirt it with water either!

Weird analogy.

Yes, it turns toilet paper into a wipe without clogging drains. Femfresh do one too thats cheaper called Tissue foam

I always use wet wipes. Definitely doesn't feel clean enough just to use paper. Don't flush them

I use a plastic measuring jug which I fill with plain warm water. Spread legs, lean back and just pour it over your nether regions from the front. Yes, a water gun is okay in tropical countries but I don't think I'd be up to pouring ice cold water during a UK winter. In a pinch I'd use a very small amount of soapless cleaner applied with toilet paper before using the warm water to rinse it off.

Are you really a grumpy old woman or are you actually a 3yo boy?

Sorry to break it to you that water isn't antibacterial.

Incidentally, if you get constant UTIs both you and your partner should both have a shower first. Maybe not spontaneous but neither is having burning bits, hunched over and being in urgent need of antibiotics. Some people are luckier than others - a urologist explained that some people just have stickier cells than others and so are more prone to UTIs. The advice to urinate after sex is not the full story. Most people aren't looking to have sex with a full bladder. You actually have to have enough liquid to flush out the bacteria - not just a trickle. The thing is to have a glass of water on hand, drink and wait a little bit and then urinate.

I use a water free skin cleansing foam. It’s made for the area, and really gentle on my very sensitive skin. It’s only about a fiver for a big spray can on Amazon. There is always one beside my loo.

Bum guns are connected to mixer taps in my country so can always get them the perfect temperature

Not that I use them at work, but we have bum guns in our work toilets and most public toilets have them too where I am.

I’d go to the bathroom for a quick wash. Takes a couple of minutes.

I grew up somewhere without running water, everyone used soap and water to wash after using the toilet. Well the work toilet is downstairs in my own house. And no I wouldn’t poo in a toilet with facilities that aren’t adequate, just as I wouldn’t wee in a toilet if there were no handwashing facilities.

Doesn’t the tissue disintegrate?

That’s gross. You can’t use the same soap for washing your hands that’s you’ve used DIRECTLY on your dirty arsehole, or happily let others use it to wash their hands.

I hope I’ve never been to your house 🤢

A bit of a dampened toilet roll does the job. No way would I use wipes.

You rub a soap bottle or bar on your body? Most people just lather their hands, or if liquid squirt it onto their hands/a flannel/a body puff thingy. Rubbing a bar on your body is not normal, plus if someone did that it wouldn’t be a communal bar anyway.

Don’t be so RIDICULOUS 🤣
People use the same soap in the shower to wash their whole body!
Do you disinfect your soap after using it??
Christ on a bike! 🤣

What is not normal about using a bar of soap on your body?
I don’t like shower gels etc.
I use dove soap, we all use it in my family. No one in my family likes shower gel.

There is one bar in the shower at a time. It’s used to wash the whole body of everyone who has a shower.
It’s then replaced with a new bar when it’s finished.

I have liquid soap and a bar of soap at the sink for washing hands.

I also use Wype gel - very good

How do all you people cope with periods? The mess of childbirth and afterwards? When your kids are sick or wipe their bogies on you? Nappy explosions? Are you constantly coating yourselves in Dettol? Life is not sterile.

Ours does if you run the tap at the same time! Highly recommended. You just need to ensure the toilet and sink are positioned right next to each other ☺️

the gun doubles up as ing useful to clean the toilet too!

EDITED- sorry, I seem to have replied to the wrong person. My apologies.

I’ll go for a poo wherever I have to, and if I can, I’ll squirt some hand wash onto some toilet paper and go back in (obviously, I have vacated the cubicle/bathroom and flushed!) and clean up properly.

Prefer my own bathroom, of course, but needs must.

I’ll happily pee outdoors if I have to! Caught short while out a walk? Find a nearby bush etc. Either that or pee myself.