But Korean people painstakingly scrub the dirt from their bodies. I am recommending that everyone visit a Korean bath house/spa/sauna and have a first hand experience on cleaning the Korean way!
You literally get layers of dead skin, DIRT, removed from an "italian towel". Italian towels are rectangular, coarse bath mittens. Most people think they feel too strong for the skin, but there’s nothing quite like them.
Scrubbing someone else's back shows how much you care for them. Growing up my mom would call me into the bathroom all steamy and hot, I would sweat profusely and scrub her back until it was bright red.