I have been OP since mid June and I have never had scrubby hands, but they are also definitely super soft, like you said, childlike soft. I have had a definite improvement in the tooth that I was supposed to eventually have a root canal on...it is hardly sore at all, and my tooth sensitivity overall is gone. It was bad. So I can't wait to see what it will all be like after 6 months, 1 year, 2 years.