Are Bidets Good for Your Health and the Planet?
Have you finally reached to the conclusion where you feel that wiping your butt with toilet paper just isn’t good enough anymore? Or you feel that it is somewhat costly and wasteful with the usage of toilet paper? If your answer is yes, then there’s a product that can not only help you overcome this issue, but also make your life better and healthier.
Fans of the bidet claim it leaves their behind feeling cleaner, fresher, and healthier. When used and maintained properly, a good quality bidet will deliver superior hygiene care. Other advantages of a bidet include being gentler on your skin, whereas toilet paper hygiene can have consequences — from not wiping clean to those being too aggressive in wiping. Even worse is wiping too hard may irritate and damage the area further. Switching to a bidet significantly helps reduce your toilet paper usage, which is appreciable for a lot of trees and the environment.
And that is why the time has finally come for you to rethink how you should clean your behind and consider the bidet, or WASHLET®, which is believed to be more hygienic and more importantly, better for the environment.
Bidets keep you and your hands cleaner.
Did you know that bidets actually help with anal and genital hygiene?
Wiping with toilet paper comes with a risk of getting fecal matter on your hands or nails. If someone doesn’t wash their hands properly after wiping, they could spread germs to whatever they touch, specifically to other people. By using a bidet to wash your butt with water, it tremendously helps remove dirt and bacteria, potentially preventing you from spreading them.
Using a bidet allows you to feel like you just stepped out of the shower. Which is why you’ll never have to wonder if you’re really clean.
Bidets help women and their health.
A bidet can actually provide several benefits for vaginal health.
The spray of a bidet is a pleasant and comfortable way for women to clean up, whether it’s after using the toilet or during their period.
Most women would probably know the rule that you should pee after sex to prevent UTI, also known as Urinary Tract Infections. And a bidet comes in handy in this instance, providing a quick cleanup after sex without the need to take a shower.
Lastly, the convenience of a bidet is especially helpful during pregnancy. Giving birth to a baby is hard work, and a bidet eliminates the need to reach down to wipe with a pregnant belly in the way. And the soothing water of a bidet is exceptionally needed after giving birth, making going to the bathroom a less painful experience.
Bidets are more environmentally-friendly.
Obviously, you save a lot of trees when you opt for a bidet. Toilet papers create an enormous amount of waste and are known to cause plumbing problems and litter in natural areas. Toilet paper manufacturing requires trees, chemicals and lots of water and energy, whereas a bidet uses lesser water consumption and requires zero trees.
Therefore, from a sustainability standpoint, bidets are able to provide complete, sanitary cleaning that often reduces the need to purchase toilet paper alternatives altogether. Although bidets don’t completely eliminate the need to have toilet paper rolls on hand, but they can cut the average usage significantly.
Installing a bidet at your own home will most likely make you a convert for life. Which is why most people who experience using TOTO’s WASHLET® for the first time describes it as life-changing. Because once you experience the quiet comfort and sense of well-being that comes from cleansing yourself with a hygienic stream of water, you will no longer want to solely rely on just toilet paper.