• Flying Squid
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      22 years ago

      I always wondered what it would be like to soak everything in Palmolive…

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

    • stebo
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      doesn’t everyone use shampoo?? who tf uses a bar of soap for anything else than washing hands??

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

  • platysalty
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    There’s liquid soap, you know. Didn’t need to shove anything inside anywhere to stay clean.

    • BlueFairyPainter
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      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

  • kairo79
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    162 years ago

    Follow-up question: do you wash your feet extra or do you also think that the shower gel water below will fix that?

    • MrScottyTay
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      Feet need to be scrubbed, not rinsed.

      When you take a bath you don’t just dip yourself for a bit and then get out

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

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      Everything that is below my pp i dont touch. Never have in my life. I just dont get that dirty that often.

    • Space Sloth
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      I’ve got really bad calluses so yeah I usually give them a good rough scrub with a coarse washcloth.

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      You fucking bet I scrub my feet. I rock climb and as most climbers do I wear my climbing shoes without socks, which also means they collect a ton of dead skin cells and sweat which makes them smell absolutely vile. I spray them all the time with a multitude of bacteria and fungus killing products, even wash them from time to time, but there’s no real solution. I just treat them as biohazard when not climbing. So yes, I make an effort to thoroughly scrub my feet to ensure they don’t retain the smell and to try to reduce how many dead cells end up in the shoes.

  • pruwyben
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    172 years ago

    To quote Chandler: “Soap is soap! It’s self-cleaning!”

    • @[email protected]
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      Isn’t soap technically self-dirtying since it’s supposed to get dirt to cling to it rather than your skin?

      • Riskable
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        No. The point of soap is to reduce the surface tension of water so that grime, oils, and bacteria can’t stick around.

        This is why the CDC recommends wetting before applying soap… Because the moment the soap propagates through the water (which happens extremely fast) is the moment microorganisms lose their grip. Applying (wet) soap beforehand reduces its efficacy.

        Anything unsanitary stuck to or in the soap isn’t going to be able to stick around once rinsing takes place.

        Also remember The Law of Conservation of Filth: For something to become clean something else must become dirty. The water is what’s getting “dirty” because of the soap.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.