Gross post #2: Are we all really oozing dirt, sweat and oil all day?

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For years, I've been soaking speaker grille cloths in my Special Secret Formula (Oxyclean and dish soap) to clean them up. The results are pretty amazing: An overnight soak can remove 45 years worth of cigarette and marijuana smoke, pollution, water damage, and who knows what else. On a whim, I decided to soak my white t-shirts (before doing my laundry) to see how non-white they really were. I used my Special Secret Formula and warm water, and let them soak overnight in my kitchen sink. Some had a touch of "ring around the collar," but none were particularly soiled. I tossed a grey one in too, for good measure. What I found in the morning was a bit of a surprise: the water was dark grey. "We humans are pretty disgusting," I thought. I decided to rinse the t-shirts and soak them again. More dark grey water. The photo is of the t-shirts after my THIRD soaking. The humanity of it all! Are we all really that gross, with dirt and sweat and oil oozing from our pores as we go about our daily business? The t-shirts DID look whiter when my experiment was done, and the ring around the collar was gone. Do you soak some clothes before you wash them? I'm going to keep doing this periodically. It's kind of pleasurable, like vacuuming.