Using your left hand to wipe

[Cooky]

I was just wondering what it's like using your left hand to wipe, as is done on the Indian sub-continent. I wonder, because I have only about 6 rolls of toilet paper left and might soon have to find an alternate method. So is it sanitary? And if so, is this something people might have to get used to in the age of COVID-19..?

Are there any other options left. Especially considering that soap is becoming rare, can we use clay to wash our hands?

 

[SalixIncendium]

Are there any other options left.

Have bidet installed.

 

[Rival]

Soap? Rare? I live in a house with 3 other people and a bar of soap lasts much longer than a month.

 

[Nakosis]

I was just wondering what it's like using your left hand to wipe, as is done on the Indian sub-continent. I wonder, because I have only about 6 rolls of toilet paper left and might soon have to find an alternate method. So is it sanitary? And if so, is this something people might have to get used to in the age of COVID-19..?

Are there any other options left. Especially considering that soap is becoming rare, can we use clay to wash our hands?

https://urbansurvivalsite.com/ways-to-wipe-your-butt-when-the-toilet-paper-is-gone/

 

[columbus]

Soap? Rare? I live in a house with 3 other people and a bar of soap lasts much longer than a month.

Some of us are cleaner than others.
Tom

 

[SalixIncendium]

Soap? Rare? I live in a house with 3 other people and a bar of soap lasts much longer than a month.

In many areas on this side of the pond, soap is absent from supermarket shelves, especially that of the antibacterial persuasion.

 

[Rival]

In many areas on this side of the pond, soap is absent from supermarket shelves.

I take it most people don't stock soap typically? We do. We have at least 2 spare bars and I keep one in my room.

 

[Cooky]

I take it most people don't stock soap typically? We do. We have at least 2 spare bars and I keep one in my room.

I haven't used bar soap in over a decade. I almost forgot they exist -we use the push top dispenser kind, which goes quick.


Good idea.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I take it most people don't stock soap typically? We do. We have at least 2 spare bars and I keep one in my room.

For hand washing, I use antibacterial soap. I have a pump at my kitchen sink and at my bathroom sink. I have a refill bottle stashed for both. I shower with body wash, which is readily available because it has no antibacterial qualities.

 

[Cooky]

For hand washing, I use antibacterial soap. I have a pump at my kitchen sink and at my bathroom sink. I have a refill bottle stashed for both. I shower with body wash, which is readily available because it has no antibacterial qualities.

I heard from a doctor that tide, hair shampoo and dish soap are all better at killing Coronavirus than anti-bacterial soap last night on TV.

He said basic soap reacts to the fattiness of the cells which "cracks the case" of the virus cells, during scrubbing, and "destroys" the cells.

 

[Rival]

For hand washing, I use antibacterial soap. I have a pump at my kitchen sink and at my bathroom sink. I have a refill bottle stashed for both. I shower with body wash, which is readily available because it has no antibacterial qualities.

We have bar soap here and a dispenser. We use Dettol bar soap and Dove.

https://www.superdrug.com/Toiletries/Washing-%26-Bathing/Soap/Dettol-Anti-Bacterial-Original-Soap-2-x100g/p/279952

 

[SalixIncendium]

We have bar soap here and a dispenser. We use Dettol bar soap and Dove.

https://www.superdrug.com/Toiletries/Washing-%26-Bathing/Soap/Dettol-Anti-Bacterial-Original-Soap-2-x100g/p/279952

We have Dove here, but I've never heard of Dettol, so I'm guessing it's only available in Europe.

 

[Rival]

We have Dove here, but I've never heard of Dettol, so I'm guessing it's only available in Europe.

It's a well-known cleaning brand. Does some really good products. It's trusted.

 

[sun rise]

As to the OP, I'm left handed so I have to think in terms of using my right hand to get a feel for what the question really is.

 

[columbus]

I'm left handed so I have to think in terms of using my right hand to get a feel

Did you really mean to post that on a forum I post on?
Tom

 

[Quagmire]

I was just wondering what it's like using your left hand to wipe, as is done on the Indian sub-continent. I wonder, because I have only about 6 rolls of toilet paper left and might soon have to find an alternate method. So is it sanitary? And if so, is this something people might have to get used to in the age of COVID-19..?

Are there any other options left. Especially considering that soap is becoming rare, can we use clay to wash our hands?

A re-post from another thread:

I just ordered one of these for my brother in Chicago: Clean Clear Rear End Bidet Butt Wash Washer Adjustable Fresh Water Spray Toilet 636339763806 | eBay

He's been to Europe, he'll cope.

It was only $30. Not sure what that comes out to in toilet paper rolls.

Think it's 3 now.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

We have Dove here, but I've never heard of Dettol, so I'm guessing it's only available in Europe.

It's certainly available in Australia, too...

 

[Stanyon]

There are plenty of options besides using your hand, soap is easy to make.

 

[Thief]

I was just wondering what it's like using your left hand to wipe, as is done on the Indian sub-continent. I wonder, because I have only about 6 rolls of toilet paper left and might soon have to find an alternate method. So is it sanitary? And if so, is this something people might have to get used to in the age of COVID-19..?

Are there any other options left. Especially considering that soap is becoming rare, can we use clay to wash our hands?

and some countries.....the people will NOT shake your hand in greeting

they know what we do

 

[Thief]

and it may also interest people here....

there is a WAR going on
on every inch of your skin
the good bacteria is fighting the bad

you are the battle field

when you disinfect...you clear the field
you are then subject to whatever regains a foothold........first