To think loo roll is not enough

[Makinglasagnatakesages]

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 😬

Are you saying people are expected to use the same cloth? No way!

When we were trekking years ago in some remote areas of Muslim countries where cleanliness obviously holds a very, very high importance both in religion and culture, we were advised to use ordinary plastic drinking bottles and everyone carried spares in their back packs for this purpose, so it doesn’t have to be complicated.

Sorry for tmi but you use the flexibility of the bottle to squirt water at your butt!

I have Muslim friends in the UK and they have bidets or specially designed jugs in their bathrooms for this purpose.

(To any Muslims reading this, I hope I have described this correctly and respectfully and and please correct me if I am wrong! I am Catholic so I don’t know the correct terms for things, apologies.)

The irony of using a bidet to be more hygienic and then sharing a bum towel with other people 🤣

Who says you share the bum towel?

There is NO bio-degradable, flushable wipes. It is a lie.
Get them in the bin

I just spit on the toilet roll

Flushable wipes are not actually flushable. Same with the cleaning toilet wipes.

use wet toilet wipes which are said to be easily disposable here and not harmful to the environment

Unless you are on a different planet to most of MN users, your wipes are just as bad for the environment as the ones in the UK.

Just how much time do you spend obsessing over the cleanliness (or otherwise) of other peoples bums OP? 😂

Those Wype things - caused horrible allergic reaction in nether regions for me.

I'm often in Japan where a warm toilet seat and cleaning the front and the back is absolutely the norm and expected almost everywhere. After these experiences I agree that loo roll is definitely not enough, doesn't even come close.

You can keep a pot of vaseline in the vicinity of the loo.
The teensiest, and I mean literally barely there, smear of vaseline onto the paper will improve the wipeability factor.
My elderly mum told me this recently, and it's an an absolutely game changer. Cleaner bum hole, less wiping required, less paper used.
It's also a much more soothing way to wipe if you have piles.
Apologies for tmi, but it's an everyday thing for everyone. 🤷

Unless you are serving lunch off your bum hole, what is the problem with just using toilet paper?
We proud brits have had stinky bits for generations and we aren’t about to change now.

Fresh X spray for toilet paper is available on Amazon. Similar to Wype I expect.

What's wrong with a good old fashioned flannel and soap when needed?

Bidet towels are not shared. I share one with DP as it’s in our home and we tend to share bodily fluids anyway. Neither of us saws away at our bum crack, it’s usually a few dabs externally and away we go. The DC used to have their own.

I have never seen a bum towel in a public loo where there is a bidet, you just pat dry with a paper towel (the same ones used for hands) and put that in the paper towel bin. The ones in hotels I assume will have been laundered, like all the other towels (which may or may not have been used to scrub someone’s bum hole).

We use wipes and bin them
Or a squirt of body lotion on toilet roll will do the same job. I have used wype in the past but it's expensive for what you get.

If you got 💩 on your hands, would you just wipe it off with toilet paper, or wash it off with soap and water?
That’s your answer.
Just because your arse is not out in public, doesn’t mean that you can’t keep it properly clean.

Isn't just a bit of water on some tissue paper enough?

If there is one bum towel hanging next to the sink, obviously you’re expected to used that one! I certainly wouldn’t! If it is a disposable one from a dispenser, ok.

No the paper dissolves

Buttocks are very well adapted to protect the outside world from any lingering traces of poo until your next shower. It almost makes me wonder if there's something in the Intelligent Design theory.

Trouble is the wipes are not flushable whatever they say on packet and cause fat bergs in sewers

if you are showering afterwards, why would you need a wet wipe anyway?

But surely you increase the risk of it smearing and ending up with a shiny streak of poo on your bum?

this reminds me of that awful Jeyes loo roll they used to have in schools, they never absorbed anything, just smeared.

Lol at the "just paper has been fine in this country for decades" reasoning 🤣 I used to use just toilet roll but at home we wash with water each time after both wee and poo. When I thought about it properly, I really wouldn't think toilet paper is enough to clean poo from any other part of my body so why accept less in those areas.