I just don’t want to mix them because I feel like it would make me less clean.
Relatedly, what’s the best way I can follow the Patrick Bateman skincare routine as a simplified version that’s actually practical to follow and contains the most important steps?
Yes people really do sterilize those areas. Its more common when you need to take a farmers bath. You sterilize because the main cause of stink is not dirt or oil or sweat but microorganisms.
Bacteria that live on your skin colonize and thrive in those areas. That smell is sulphur based waste they produce.
Soap does not kill microorganisms very well on its own, instead it helps the water pick them up and wash them away. If you have a lot of clean running water and a lot of soap it works well enough but doesnt 100% get rid of the colony. sterilizer kills off whats left.
That being said most people (me included) who use sterilizer are cautious about putting it on the groin/taint since those areas are so sensitive but a teeny tiny bit on a realy wet washrag seems to be okay imo. I mainly use it for the pits and just soap and scrub really well down below.
Also about the surgeon thing I’m pretty sure they still use sterilized gloves in a sterilized environment with equipment that’s been through riggerous decontamination. They probably use hand sanitizer too lol.
Interesting, I didn’t know about that term at all. What’s a farmer’s bath, some kind of deep-wash, basically?
Which is why I mentioned soap as a degreasing agent, removing oils and the vast, vast majority of microorganisms with it, alongside water and friction.
Because they’re gonna play with your insides, where the smallest thing could infect and kill you.
While washing their hands with soap and water?