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Cleaning blood off of skin: what should be used to clean it off properly?

So, I work bathrooms at my workspace. Not a great position, but I haven't had any hiccups until today. Today was a nightmare as one restroom was fully plugged and another had me come in close contact with blood. I had to clean out a bin with bags for women to put their hygiene products in (tampons, toilet paper, etc.). However, someone had the FUN idea to drop her undergarments and go home. In the bin was also clumps of what I could only presume was menstrual blood judging by the … quantity. I don't know if I came into direct contact with it, I was wearing two layers of gloves and picked everything up with layers of paper towel. My wrist might have come into contact with the bin this was all stuffed into, so i'm worried about residual blood that could just be the product of my own anxiety. I don't know how to approach cleaning my wrist; I washed with soap and water, I even lightly spritzed harmful chemicals on the area because I was so appalled by it. I'm something of a severe mysophobe, and should this woman have had something, I DON'T want it. How would one go about cleaning this off, and ensuring that no STD's or anything else blood-transmitted was taken care of?
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Be rest assured that you didn't posses any risk for HIV contraction. HIV essentially is a sexually transmitted disease.

Please take a moment to read through the FAQ section of the forum for risks of HIV transmission.

You need not worry about HIV and testing won't be necessary.
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This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore  testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
If you didn't have one of the 3 then you are just worrying about your own hiv theory - which is unrealistic for you to think that can become reality - so you should move on back to your happy life instead.
Do not spray harmful chemicals on your body wounds. Perhaps talk to doc about this if you plan to do it again.
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