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who shower barehanded
There is another way...?
What? What kind of heathen doesn't have a pair of heavy duty work gloves for showering? Am I the only civilized one among us?!
you dont wear shower mittens?
the people on this federation, i fucking swear.
I mean, yeah?? I just put the soap wherever it needs to go??
The soap isn't dirty folks. Half of the time all I'm showering off is sweat and dead skin cells anyways. And if any bugger dares reply to this with some clever comment about taint smears, I'll inform you beforehand I do not speak with bidet-less miscreants.
I mean... doesn't the soap get washed as you use it to wash yourself?
I don't shower barehanded. I wear gloves at all times as to not scuff my jorts.
There are dozens of us!
Soap on hands; hands on body.
Yes, but whose body?
What I do is I take several guns and a baseball bat with me when I shower so that I'm never caught barehanded ever.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was wondering what on earth OP was taking about
It's like interdimensional cable but for internet forums. In my version of reality, we get completely naked when taking a shower, not just our hands. We have these kind of lay-down-showers called baths too, but that's a whole other thing. Also, the chemical element with atomic mass 207.2 g.mol ^ -1, which may seem like a useful building material, especially for shower pipes, is actually dangerous to life that is based on the chemical element 12.011 g.mol ^ -1. Figured I should include that in case OP's reality hasn't figured that out yet. In exchange, consider sharing something dangerous your reality has discovered that might not be obvious to us yet.
The same way you wash your hands
Liquid soap, problem solved.
doesn't everyone use shampoo?? who tf uses a bar of soap for anything else than washing hands??
There is shampoo as soap bars in Europe.
I use it since it brings better cleaning results. There are also environmental reasons not to pack everything like shampoo into plastic. A soap bar comes with just a bit of paper around.
There's liquid soap, you know. Didn't need to shove anything inside anywhere to stay clean.
I lather everything on my belly and then spread it across my body.
Anywhere skin-on-skin contact occurs (butt, balls, armpits), I use a small amount of benzoyl peroxide facewash. It kills the bacteria responsible for BO and for 24-48 hours body odor is impossible.
You apply it, wait 5 minutes and rinse well. If you don't rinse well you can bleach your towel or clothes.
As far as body soap goes, I use a a fragrance free body wash with salicylic acid. Heavy mechanical exfoliation is not necessary when using a chemical exfoliant. Also, loofas are just a bunch of plastic waste.
After the shower, I use a lightweight gel moisturizer with cerimides. I use a thicker moisturizer on my hands and weenis.
That's just the body. I--of course--have a completely seperate routine for my face.
Have you ever heard of shower gel?
I use a bar of soap that is exclusive to me. I lather somewhere hairy, like my stomach, to build up some suds.Then, I soap everything with the suds and soap.
It wastes a ton of soap compared to a washcloth. And when I'm done I wash the bar off and wash my hands one last time. It's the quickest way I have found to shower. I am usually out in about 15 minutes.
15 minutes is a pretty long shower
I legitimately don't know how people shower quicker than that. Like, if I'm in a rush I can, but I know I'm missing areas and not getting as clean as I could be.
But to be honest I have OCD that mostly manifests as germaphobia/obsessively sanitizing. I'm not good about understanding how normal people clean themselves.
That soap does what it's told or it gets the hose again.
Step out of the water, lather up hands, scrub, then back into the water to rinse. Face, then hair, the upper body then lower body - with a good spray of the undercarriage (shower heads are supposed to be removeable, not stuck to the wall).
It's a pet hate of mine that people often miss the step of rinsing when cleaning. The whole point is that the soap picks up the muck, then rinsing it removes it. This is a particular problem with dishes, where people leave (sometimes very dirty) dishwater on the plate to drip dry, with much of the residue remaining. My dishes fucking sparkle, and that's because I rinse them clean.
In contrast, with showers I think some people lather up in the water, which dilutes and rinses the soap away before it even cleans anything.
Lather first
Also, a lifehack: if you have body hair, you can lather soap onto your hands and then just move them through your body hair
This allows you to generate tons of soap foam with which you can wash EVERYTHING
I use a soap bar, and just scrub my body with it. It does the job.
To quote Chandler: "Soap is soap! It's self-cleaning!"
what
Two words: pube loofah. The mons pubis is a great place to lather up. Then I just scoop up soap with my bare hands and bring it where it needs to be.
Follow-up question: do you wash your feet extra or do you also think that the shower gel water below will fix that?
I'm 196cm tall. Do you know how far I need to go down to wash them? I trust trickling down soapy water will fix that.
Both, hard to shove soap on your back, easy on your belly
Lather up by rubbing bar on hairy bits. Use hands to rub everything down with lather.
I use liquid body wash and shampoo. I pour on a hand, lather with both, then clean where needs to be cleaned. I can feel whatβs dirty and Iβm washing my hands immediately.
My shower has different cycles like a self serve car wash. I just move the dial to the appropriate setting and go from there.
I always start with that bubblegum-scented foam brush.
I haven't used soap in the shower for at least five years. Only when cleaning hands, and I do use antiperspirant) I just scrub myself with my hands in the shower top to bottom. (I am bald tho).
No one has ever mentioned me smelling bad, even my current co-workers who do say it if someone is smelling.