On the flip side, most people who use toilet paper think their butts will get completely clean. That is actually not the case.
But either is not a big deal because the skin in that hind area is quite resilient.
To the surprise of many people, the game-changer in bathroom hygiene is properly washing hands after using the toilet. People in developing countries lack access to clean water and soap. Nobody really misses toilet paper.
I'm not talking about wetness. I'm talking about feces. As in sitting there getting blasted with a sprayer for well over a minute trying to hit all the angles and then seeing brown on the paper being used to dry up. Just spraying water does not work on its own. If you wipe normally first, then a bidet afterward will probably get you cleaner. But if you don't wipe first then there's no guarantee that it will do better on its own than wiping would have.
Personal experience does not agree with you. But I'm glad that it works well for someone.
I have tested the cleanliness with paper, but after 6 years now I never need any paper. Unless your ass is really hairy there won't be as much residual wetness as you'd expect and air drying for a moment is enough.
Method 2: If there's a jet/bidet fixed on the toilet that shoots a stream of water, you still need one had to gently wash the butt. Then wash your hands (twice) with soap and water.
There's only one issue with this -- public toilets/hotels where you don't want to touch the spray gun. Need Toilet Paper there.
That's how we all are taught to do in south-east asia atleast. *I feel unclean if I'm using toilet paper alone! Billions of people do it this way!
1. I can not imagine my life without it 2. In my very humble opinion the only effective use of bidet, as parent states, is seated towards the tap using hands, soap, and mildly warm water. After that, washing hands at the bathroom sink
Do they?
yeah yeah we are all unhygienic savages, but isn't this what the two showers a day are for?
With TP some people need a couple of sheets and they come away with a clean sheet, others need half a roll.
And as I understand it, laser removal is less painful than getting waxed.
This is the only thing I don't get about bidets. Unless I'm missing something it's like unavoidable to get droplets on your hand/spreayer for the manual types? I personally wouldn't really care, but I just wonder why not more people make a fuzz about this. Again, maybe I'm missing something.
I bought mine off Amazon for like $40 and it does that.
BTW I do clean mine now and then, and there is like, almost nothing to clean. Compared to e.g. my humidifier, that needs almost-daily cleaning.
Does it spray bleach or soap or just plain water? You wouldn't wash your hands with just water.
Though, I guess the issue here is comparing bidet to no-bidet.
The bidet is so much better than TP only, it is not even close. Instead of feeling gross, you feel glorious, is what it is.
Yes, you use your hand along with the water to clean! It sounds disgusting but actually feels super clean and hygienic once you are used to it.
Your hand will not smell afterwards and it is heavenly for the butt, feels so nice and clean. Also IME feces will lose some of their disgustingness, just because everything around it is so much cleaner now. I lived "western style" until 30 y/o and with a "bum gun" since two years, one of the best life improvements for me.
You would have to wash it with water and rub with your hands to fully clean it, and then wash your hands again.
Compared to using a tissue, a bidet is definitely eco friendly, considering the amount of energy required to make the tissue in the first place.
It’s cleans itself and dosnt blast feces as you very eloquently put it.
It does not eliminate toilet paper for us. But most of it goes towards drying off quickly. If you're patient you can use the built-in blow-dryer, but it's much slower than patting down.
Really eliminates 95-99% of wiping, in my experience. The temperature-controlled seat and water are very nice in winter (Seattle, where another commenter noted that tap water is somewhere in the 40°s Fahrenheit).
> So, ok, using wet paper can get you much cleaner and is gentler than dry paper
Yes, this is the main idea.