Here’s the nasty reason why you should never trust the plastic hygiene liners on bathing suits

When it comes to swimwear shopping, one of the worst things you can do is try on a suit fully nude.

Although bathing suit bottoms usually have a plastic hygiene liner in them — according to a microbiologist, that’s the last thing you want near your privates.

Nicholas Aicher is a scientist from Chicago. He took it upon himself to swab the plastic seal of two different bathing suit bottoms that hung in a retail store and place them into a petri dish to see what kind of bacteria live on them.