WEEKLY MORSELS with SCRUBBING BUBBLES...

OK, we'll navigate around the "TO SOAK or NOT TO SOAK" harp camps and visit the offices of Microphone Hygiene instead. Just as well, seems those groups are always locked in armed conflict...
Consider this: As a Tin Sandwich Jockey you spend an inordinate amount of time with your hands, your harps, and your harpmic pressed into your face. Remember what your mom told you & remember what that sign in the club's bathroom said: LAVA SUS MANOS ANTES DE TRABAJAR Y TOCAR (Press 3 for English). Realizing it's NOT a good idea to run Lord Microphone under the spigot when you're washing your paws, what can you do to counteract the cooties sure to be breeding on its surface?
When I was a teen and put together my first harp case, I included and would carry a pint bottle of vodka for the purpose of rinsing-out clogged harps and doing bar towel wipe-downs of my mics and cables. Thinking back, even tho I wasn't drinking the stuff I'm amazed I never got popped for being a "minor in possession"... Altho I wouldn't recommend such a direct "vodka" approach, it turns-out I was on the right track: While vodka is typically 40% ethyl alcohol, many commercial spray disinfectants are just about 37% ethyl alcohol -that's 80 PROOF for the vodka compared to 74 PROOF for the disinfectant. Pretty close. The sprays will have just about a single percent (1%) of dimethyl benzyl ammonium chlorides and dimethyl ethybenzyl ammonium chlorides as "active ingredients" which will hopefully be absent from the vodka.
Using a terrycloth washcloth or commercial bar towel as an applicator (DON'T spray disinfectants directly on or into the mic!), give Lord Microphone a good rub and let dry completely. For cables: A bit more moisture can be tolerated on rubber-jacketed wire. Using vodka? Like Brylcreem, a little dab'll do ya! Hold the olives...