Help, ideas please

I like taking nice hot baths. But I've heard that bathing in hot water don't cleanse your body, because the bacteria just goes where warm water is. I like to pamper myself, but now I wonder if I'm actually cleaning my body while I treat myself to a relaxing bath. I don't use bubble bath because of getting infections. I just relax then clean my body and get out of the bath. But am I really cleaning my body or no?