This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important

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• ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are two camps on this one, both have valid points:

  1. different bacteria live on different parts of the body, makes sense to use different towels for different parts of the body that don’t come into contact much
  2. if when you leave the shower you feel that you can’t use one towel for the whole body you should go back to the shower

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  • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Counterpoint to 2: I’m just paranoid

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    • ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You never leave your shower?🥺

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  • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about the bacteria in the towel?

    If you are using certain sections of a towel specifically for certain body parts, you dont know what germ theory is.

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  • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Counterpoint to 1: Your microbiome is massive. You are constantly emitting bacteria. It surrounds you in a cloud like Pig Pen from the Peanuts comics. The reason you have different bacteria on your face and balls is not because they can’t get from one place to the other; it is because they can’t survive/compete there.

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    • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      |why doesn’t my face smell like pussy yet?|

      You aren’t eating enough pussy. Everyone should eat more pussy. Pussy is fucking delicious.

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• PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m in the 'new towel every day" club.

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  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    More people would upvote this but theyre still doing laundry

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• hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I also wipe my asshole with that same towel. No particular order. I’m coming out of the shower clean so what does it matter.

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• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you use one towel or a fresh towel everyday.

  I have a fresh towel everyday. My current partner thinks I am absolutely insane for this. A 6 pack of basic decent bath towels is $35 shipped online. My partner came from a more affluent family than me and makes more money than me but I still think this is worth spending $35 on once every like 5-7 years until the towels wear out.

  Their argument is that you come out of the shower clean but that’s not really true. You come out less dirty still with bacteria, skin mites, dead skin cells, fungi, etc that get transferred to that towel. It’s probably fine to reuse it for a few days assuming the towel dries in between uses (which it may not, given the humid environment of a bathroom, especially if shared), that you don’t have weird situations going on (athletes foot, bacterial acne, etc), and that you’re not sharing it. But why bother when again a weeks worth of towels is like $40 and slightly more laundry. Yuck

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  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use a towel twice. Once then hang to dry use again then done. I find if i try to hang to dry again it either doesn’t quite dry by the next day or just has a kinda bleh texture i don’t enjoy, not soft anymore. So 2 uses it is

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  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s probably fine to reuse it for a few days

    My dude, hardly anyone uses a new towel every day. Its much more than “probably” fine. Its perfectly fine.

    Is affluence the cause of germophobia because their parents convinced them frivolous luxury was actually important for staying healthy?

    Don’t get me wrong, enjoy your fresh towels! That’s nice. That’s a luxury. Luxuries are nice. But don’t fool yourself into believing that you’re any healthier for not using the same towels twice.

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  • Scrawny@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    youtu.be/4NWxU5RIUnI

    Do you change your sheets every day? It’s your own bacteria anyway. As long as you’re not sharing the towel it’s fine for multiple days. A fresh one is just wasting time and water on laundry.

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  • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re forgetting the cost of an extra laundry load for those towels each week.

    Fresh towel already has bacteria and fungi on it before you dry yourself with it.

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You need to air out your bathroom more or get a dehumidifier if yours is constantly humid. If your towels dont dry I wonder how you dont have mold growing on the walls.

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  • Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you have a humidity problem if your bathroom is humid all the time.

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  • bryndos@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you use a fresh dishcloth/kitchen sponge every time you wash up?
    re: mythbusters ep 135.

    They didn't test towel unfortunately unless there was a follow up that i cant remember.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I cycle the kitchen towel every few days (sooner if there’s a spill). I replace the sponge twice a month because I haven’t found a sponge at any price that doesn’t completely fail apart and look gross after doing dishes for two weeks or so.

      I’m raising a child, so it’s probably a little more intense for me.

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