: if I wash hands twice, are they significantly cleaner ?

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When you do the dishes and have a little residue of cheese attached to your fork that contrains you to pass a second time your sponge/dishwashing liquid to be perfectly clean.

If we applied this logic to microscopic things on our hands, that would mean that it’s better to clean them twice “just to be sure”. Since it’s impossible to know if we have particularly resistants microbes or something like that, one more soap/rince seems worth

Is this manner of thinking sounds accurate in a scientific way ?

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I tend to think it’s more important to wash your hands correctly the first time, than wash them twice. I’ve always tried to stick to this rule, and I’ve been OK. That being said, I hate it when I go to a restaurant or a stadium and they only have cold water to wash your hands, I always like to use hot water. So if it’s only cold water, sometimes I will wash twice if I feel the need.

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