If you read the posts right after it, you'll notice I've clarified it a few times. Not that the original statement is false for me. Personally, I don't need to

If you read the posts right after it, you'll notice I've clarified it a few times. Not that the original statement is false for me. Personally, I don't need to use the alum-salts anymore. Once the bacteria is "gone" (okay... reduced to the lower, natural levels), it's just a matter of using soap and nothing else for me. It's a sign of good health, but your results may vary. The notion that bacteria #s comes back (in a few days) to the same over-realized levels that you've grown over the previous 20+ years is ridiculous. You have natural balanced levels and types, that get augmented over time via lack of proper management. Once you kill off the extras, those #s get back to lower natural levels which are manageable by other means (soap during shower). As long as you manage those #s, they stay leveled. Maybe we're just different. Maybe we're in different environments. Etc.