When we go swimming and spend extended time in water, do the little bugs who live on our skin suffocate and die? - eviltoast
  • T156@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Shower, probably. Part of the function of soap (and scrubbing) is to dislodge dirt and bacteria, so it gets washed away.

    So you’re either committing genocide by killing them outright, or forcefully relocating them from your body. (also why 99% soap generally doesn’t matter too much compared to regular soap)

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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t the nature of subsurfacants rip apart most bacteria? That’s what I have always been taught, but my mother supplemented a lot of my education and I have learned she hasn’t always been 100% right… although neither were my textbooks l… so I guess flaws all around