: 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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It’s not worth the skin damage that over washing can cause. It will remove more bacteria but as long as you’re washing thoroughly the first time then it’s fine.

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