Can a soap be dirty? In a sense that there are still some bacteria living on it.
In: Chemistry
There’s cleaning, disinfecting and sterilizing. A bar of soap just cleans, and does so by removing dirt and oil.
There are medicated body washes that fight bacteria for things like acne, but plain old soap won’t do all that.
So no, it is clean as long as you wash it off after use, but it is not disinfected or sterile and neither are you. Which is fine.
Source
-worked in infection control in a hospital
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