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?!
Personally I never get in the shower without my circular saw
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Wtf did I just watch… and why did I watch the whole damn thing!?
Same reason I did. If you figure it out please let me know.
This is wonderful
I know toasters are for bathing, but hadn’t heard circular saws were better for showers. TIL.
Personally I never shower.
My local supermarket sells these “exfoliating gloves” that you wear in the shower and basically just use like a wearable washcloth. They’re awesome.
I love these, it’s the best of both worlds. You get the scrubbing and exfoliating of a wash cloth with all the ease and precise control of hands.
They’re like $4 I highly recommend them to everyone.
Arc welding is my favorite shower activity. You need ppe
What if you only have PP? Where to get the E?
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I imagine they mean without a cloth, poof, or loofa. As a kid I would put body wash in my hand, lather, and rub it over my body. But it tended to use up soap quickly so either I had to add more soap part way through or the things I washed last didn’t get washed well. Which is why I switched to a poof.
you dont wear shower mittens?
the people on this federation, i fucking swear.
A “washandje” of course!
a washandje
That sounds like something you ask for at an unlicensed massage parlour
I use the korean version of that
Ahh yes the manhwash
Wash cloths?
I have some stupid questions from someone who rolls barehanded…
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How do you get the soap to lather well when using a wash cloth? I tried it once but it didn’t work all that well.
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Are you supposed to use a new washcloth every time you shower? If yes, how many washcloths do you go through a week and how much does this add to your laundry bulk. If no, aren’t you kind of grossed out by a used, wet, bacteria filled rag being rubbed all over you?
I once saw a post from someone not understanding how bare handers could possibly get clean from only using their hands. But…it’s not like you use a washcloth when you wash your hands and no one is grossed out by that. Why are people then randomly grossed out when you apply that to showering? The action of soap with mechanical disruption, be it with your bare hands or a washcloth, does well to remove grime and bacteria.
To the OP, I lather in my hands with a bar of soap and then wash my body with my sudsy hands…going back to the bar of soap and even “washing my hands” often enough when necessary.
I use an exfoliating washcloth like this. It lathers really well. Scrubs off the dead skin and it’s long so you can scratch your back. It air dries fast.
How do you get the soap to lather well when using a wash cloth? I tried it once but it didn’t work all that well.
It lathers better than soap/hands for me.
Are you supposed to use a new washcloth every time you shower? If yes, how many washcloths do you go through a week and how much does this add to your laundry bulk.
Not I. I change mine weekly. Even if I did daily, they’re tiny, so 7 would be about the same mass as a shirt.
If no, aren’t you kind of grossed out by a used, wet, bacteria filled rag being rubbed all over you?
Not anymore than rubbing a used, wet, bacteria filled bar of soap being rubbed all over you. Or used, wet, bacteria filled hands.
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First time I heard of that. What is the advantage they have compared to just using your hands, besides the lathering abilities mentioned in one of the replies to this comment which is something I never had a problem with?
I lather up a washcloth and scrub that way.
That’s the way all our great-grandparents did it. But with a bowl of warm water.
Uses just a fraction of energy & water. With the abundance of cheap energy, affordable piping and heating became affordable for the masses.
I mean, I also use an actual shower for the rinsing and hair, I just use a washcloth instead of my bare hands or a bar for soaping everything up.
That’s what I thought, hence I mentioned the bowl of water. Which was heated with wood or coal which had to be carried manually… in buckets… Imagine that :-)
I use soap bar bags… I can’t figure out if that qualifies as barehanded or not
I wash myself with a rag on a stick.
You can also get shower brushes, mostly for dislodging dead skin cells…
I shove the bar of soap strait up my ass and just express the foam into my hand from there until I’m done.
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A yes, the Gere technique
I do this too, but I use the moves I learned during my breakdancing days to spin on my head and evenly distribute a layer of suds all over my body. It’s super efficient!
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’m supposed to wear gloves in the shower?
I just rub the shower gel bottle over myself. It’s lasting me ages
Watch out for Big Soap! They don’t want the people to know your one weird trick!
Soap on hands; hands on body.
I remember watching a black comedian many years ago and his bit started “Why don’t white people use washcloths?”, and it got me thinking. I started using washcloths and noticed I came away cleaner, soap on a hand doesn’t cut the skin oils and dirt like soap and gentle abrasion can. I also noticed, because I’m hairy, that I get lots of ingrown hairs, especially on my legs. Switched to one of those “poofs” and now I vigorously scrub my hairy bits and no ingrown hairs. Exfoliating helps.
Use a washcloth and don’t forget to brush your tongue, you filthy animal.
How can you tell that you “come out cleaner”? I don’t exactly have motor oil all over my body or anything when I shower.
I don’t exactly have motor oil all over my body or anything when I shower.
Then you’re not doing it right! I know the vegan motor oil is supposedly the best for your skin but I prefer the synthetic stuff. The process is Exon, Exoff.
How do you clean your ears, bellybutton, toes? And hopefully in that order. Some stuff needs extra attention, and some people have different skin types than you. Go scrub out your toes.
toes?
That’s what the pressure washer is for. Takes the human skin right off!
I actively try not to get soap in my ears because it will clog them up. I use an “ear syringe” to occasionally rinse out my ears with slightly preessurized water only.
They don’t properly clean those areas, they’re just gross
Huh… I’m a huge proponent of brushing your tongue (it doesn’t take much, just a brush with a scraper on the back makes a big difference). I’ve never really tried washcloths, but now I’m going to give them a shot
On the flip side, my skin is weird. I get hives for literally no reason, I tried one of those plastic poofs and it makes me itch like crazy.
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just a brush with a scraper on the back makes a big difference
Huh?
Some toothbrushes have a tongue-scraping thing on the opposite side of the bristles.
I guess I didn’t know that was necessary. What’s the reasoning?
A lot of mouth bacteria lives on your tongue. Any dentist will tell you that cleaning your tongue is an important part of oral hygiene, even though it’s often overlooked. Doing it really helps with keeping bad breath under control and generally healthier teeth.
Soap bar bags are the superior option, they save you money too
You are correct.
The Asian body scrubbers are next level exfoliation. The best part is they dry super fast and are washable. I used to use the poofs but they retained so much dang water and weren’t washable.
Yes, but whose body?
I don’t shower barehanded. I wear gloves at all times as to not scuff my jorts.
Man, I used to have some jean shorts like that too. I slept in them shits, man. Eventually, I blew the crotch out of them things. But you can’t wear 'em every day and expect for 'em to hold up. That was some nice-ass denim too. I miss them shorts. But you gotta take 'em off every now and then. You gotta take 'em off, son!
This Arrested Development/Always Sunny cross over is exactly what I needed today, thank you both.
There are dozens of us!
Dozens!
The way this question was phrased killed me. lmao
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.
Maybe op has only used shower gloves and has now seen the light…
The same way you wash your hands
Someone out there is rubbing the bar all over each hand and then just rinses. Knowing humans this has to be true for someone.
If there’s a betting pool I’ve got $5 on Florida.
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.
Bar soap feels much cleaner at the end. Also it doesn’t create plastic garbage.
Me too. I kinda do it in parts. Like arms, torso, legs and fave. Then lastly is use a nail cleaning brush to scrub my butt. I like to think I have the cleanest butt in town.
use a nail cleaning brush to scrub my butt
I always wondered what it would be like to soak everything in Palmolive…
There’s liquid soap, you know. Didn’t need to shove anything inside anywhere to stay clean.
Liquid soap is a bitch to rinse properly.
I’ve never once found that to be the case, and I love those super lathery ones too
It rinses just as any other state form soap, what are you talking about
Astroglide is not a brand of liquid soap
This is a common problem… You need to buy “body wash” from the supermarket or pharmacy. Not the “wash” from the body shop.
Liquid soap/body wash is a sham. It’s just the company selling you less soap by diluting it with water. Bars of soap are more economical.
I’m old enough to remember when body wash was not the normal and now soap bars seem to be used less than body wash.
I actually wasn’t aware of soap bars before today. I only see those for hands, not the whole body. Reading these comments, I’m not sure if it’s more of a generational or cultural difference.
Use beard as soap distribution hub.
I’d like to see you distributing the soap to the loin area of even beyond the taint.
By ‘I’d like to see’ I’m not really soliciting for pictures (moving or not), I’m merely enjoying the mental picture and it’s comedic implications.
Raises eyebrow…
For… science?
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.
