It's best to avoid unnecessary stress like bathing. Ball pythons don't need bathed regularly, and shouldn't be bathed unless they have shedding/certain medical problems, or are covered in their own messes, like you said.
But honestly I think it would be better and much less stressful if you just took a cloth dampened with lukewarm water and let him slither through it. Maybe a few times if it's really stuck on him.
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