By WILIAM HUNTER, SENIOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER<\/p>\n
Published: 12:25 BST, 8 August 2026 | Updated: 12:25 BST, 8 August 2026<\/p>\n
You might\u00a0think your home is spick and span, but a day in the life of this microbiologist puts even the most houseproud person to shame.<\/p>\n
Dr Primrose Freestone is associate professor of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Leicester, and could well be Britain's cleanest woman.<\/p>\n
As an expert on all the germs hiding in our homes, she takes absolutely no chances when it comes to keeping her house sparkling clean.<\/p>\n
However, some people might find her cleaning methods to be a touch extreme.<\/p>\n
From ironing her towels daily and only using sponges once, to avoiding live yoghurt for fear of bacterial infection, her life is as close to microbe\u2013free as possible.<\/p>\n
Dr Freestone even goes so far as to wash her toothbrush with hand sanitiser to keep the bacteria at bay.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
To find out more, the Daily Mail asked Dr Freestone to take us through a typical day in the life of a microbiologist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She told the Daily Mail: 'Once I realised what is growing in us and on us, my first reaction was "yuck"'.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dr Primrose Freestone is associate professor of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Leicester, and could well be Britain's cleanest woman<\/p>\n
Like most people, Dr Freestone's day starts by attending to her own personal hygiene with a nice refreshing shower.<\/p>\n
'Technically the body only needs to be washed once every other day,' Dr Freestone told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n
'But if you are quite precious about your hygiene you do actually need to have a good wash every day.'<\/p>\n
However, this is where Dr Freestone's habits start to make the average person seem positively grubby.<\/p>\n