#washyourhands
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Soap then water. Or water soap water.
Here's the routine I use at work:
- Apply soap to hands. (Might be better wet, but I usually do dry)
- Spread and agitate soap like it's location so it can emulsify hydrophobic substances. Get everywhere, like between the fingers. Scratch palms to get soap up under fingernails.
- Rinse with the hottest water comfortable.
- If available, de-bulk most of the water with an air drier.
- If you debulked, 1 paper towel should be more than enough to completely dry your hands. Otherwise, fold the paper towel twice to utilize inter-fiber absorption.
- Barely touch the door on the way out.
- Finalize with hand sanitizer. Especially if the soap says "no detergents" or "chemical-free". In which case they are either lying, or it isn't soap. Since soap is by definition a detergent. So don't trust it to sanitize your hands.
It sounds excessive, but I do all this without thinking.
This really is an amazing question; I feel like Alice in Wonderland right now.
I dont even know how to interpret the data i am seeing here, the original poster plus 15 people are telling me that they apply soap to dry hands.
What?
I believe the OP as some weird outlying statistic as she seems geniune, but I dont know what to do with the other 15.
It seems like either they or I have not understood the question or they are just trolling the poll.
I am utterly stupefied by this, it just makes no sense.
On the bright side, when the robots take over, maybe we could weaponise this concept and use it to crash their programs.
Lol o... kay
No, no, no, don't be pretending that I am the crazy person here dry hand soaper.
ππππ leave me aloneee
First I turn on the water, then I wet my hands, then I take the soap on my wet hands and rub the soap on my left hand with my right hand. When I see that I am getting enough suds, I put the soap back in and then turn off the water. At that time, I rub my hands together until soap bubbles foam in my hands and fall into the sink. And I turn on the water last and rinse my right hand and then my left hand first. 😌😌
i put on some soap and rub it around then add a bit of water and rub them some more then add more water and continue rubbing then rinse then add more soap and rub them again then rinse. That's it what do you think about that?
This is exactly how I wash my hands.
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With liquid soaps, you rub the soap in really well first, that gets it to bind the grease, grime, and oil. Then and only then, you wet it down and rinse all of it off. And some abrasive in the soap works wonders (like lava soap).
Anyone who routinely paws around in grimy engine bays will agree with this.
The same concept applies with microbes and stuff that you can't see. It's just not as obvious how much better the (nonpolar) lipophilic side of the detergent molecules accomplish their work in the absence of the (polar) water molecules.
Soap lather for 15-20 seconds, then water for 10 more. You know, the CORRECT way?
If you're using a bar, you might want to get the bar a little wet first, but the soap would still count as "first" though, because you got to rinse the soap off you. For hands, I only use gel soap, so no pre-wetting is required.
Yeah I use foaming hand soap
- I wash my hands with water very quick, dry them
- then I wash my hands with water again, quick, dry them
- then I wash my hands with soap, thoroughly, dry them...
- then I wash my hands again, with water... lol
OCD?
@TwinkleLily5 yes... both, mild OCD and germophobic... lol
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These folks are good at what they do, but you won't see the finished product until it's almost too late, because Capricorns are relentlessly looking for what's wrong in their own work, and they will find it too. That's what compulsion does: it makes you work.
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August
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Turn on water wet hands add soap soap up herbs till sugar appear scrub flat parts of held then wash between fingers then all of hand together rinse repeat - literally- about 5 times.
Soap, then tepid water for 15-20 seconds. Dry hands with a paper towel... use said paper towel to turn off facet and open doors if need be, before disposing of it.
Source: hand hygiene protocol at my hospital.
I like to use the traditional bars of soap. So Iβll wet my hands first, then roll the bar of soap round and around in my hands to get a good lather going. Then put the soap bag in the soap dish, and continue to work the soap all around my fingers and backs of my hands and then rinse with water.
So if I'm using bar soap I'll pick the bar up and put my hand under the water and then start lathering.
Front to back, side to side, around the fingers, in between the fingers, and the palms and wrist. Takes about 10 seconds I've had a lot of practice washing in the army and in the food service industry.
Water > soap > water. From point of hygiene it's important to rub you hand with water before purring soap on them. Most soaps work like lubricants, it reduces friction which remove mechanically some impurities.
It's water then soap! They even put it on the sticker in the washroom!!!
Here is the proper procedure:
#1 Rinse you hands, up yo your elbow with warm water.
#2 Use soap to wash, clean and scrub your hands, including under your nails and up to your elbows. Also wash the water faucet knobs while you are at it.
#3 Finally, rinse everything with warm water. Repeat if necessary then dry your hands.
Here is why this works and not the other way around. Rub your hands with oil and dirt until they form chunks on your hands. Then try to wash them. You will notice that rinsing with water helps loosen the dirt and wash some of the oil away before you waste you soap and have to wash again. The only way also makes your nails to pack full of dirt.
Ehhh lol I've always washed my hands with soap first
It depends on the soap. With a bar of soap, water first to dissolve the soap. If it is liquid soap, you can do either.
a. Wet your hands first.
b. Lather up the soap in your hands.
c. Thoroughly rub/scrub your hands together.
d. Thoroughly rinse the soap off your hands with water.
It depends on the kind of soap. If it's liquid soap, then soap first. If it's a bar of soap, then water first.
We use foaming hand soap
Then soap first
How cute. Proper way is wet hands, and then add soap. I prefer it the other way around 🙃. But I practiced it so much in nursing I canβt forget lol.
i was always taught water then soap then rinse. have seen and done soap then rinse but still preffer water 1st. was taught this in health classes, by my parents and other family, and health proffessionals.
Nothing really to do with this but rembering my ex girlfriend who wouldn't let me anywhere near her unless I washed my hands for over 2 minutes and get soap several times. And it's not like I'm a super uncleanly person. Really crazy germaphobe
I mean if you put soap on first and then water, the water washes off the soap. So do the other one.
Isn't the point to wash off the soap? I scrub my hands with soap, under the faucet for a sec, more scrubbing, rinse, one more pump of soap, scrub, wash off, dry.
No, the point is to wash off the dirt. The soap and water mix does that. Then you rinse off the soap.
The food service way: 20 seconds of hot water and soap, scrubbing thoroughly.
Water, then soap. Some soaps will be too dry to clean if you don't get your hands wet first
Water then soap then water then soap then water again
Wet your hands first and then apply soapy so it gets all foamy.
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