Bar soap… do most people rub the bar all over their body or lather in hands or washcloth?

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:HOW DOES SOAP GET DIRTY?!?


If you rub a bar of soap between your butt cheeks after pooping, peeing, sweating all day and expect it to me germ free by the time you wash your face in the morning… think of all the people who leave hairs on the soap. No one is scrubbing the soap clean, the bacteria is layered and drying on the top.


I think you need to start thinking about the bar of soap the same way you think about a towel. You don’t take the towel, use it on your bum, then right on your face the next day. You wash it between uses. Same thing with a bar of soap. When you lather it and rinse it, it’s clean. There is no layering of bacteria on soap that you lather each time.

I don’t do this myself but this isn’t unsanitary.


I have a bar of soap I use to clean the other bar of soap.
Anonymous
Liquid soaps typically cost more and require five times the energy to produce and 20 times the energy for packaging (in plastic bottles). Not to mention the gigantic amount of unnecessary waste from each and every plastic bottle.

GOOD LORD, PUT BAR SOAP UNDER WATER FIRST IF YOU'RE SO CONCERNED. Like holy crap, you people have no commons sense. If you're such a germophobe that you are worried about dead skin and microbes on soap, run it under the water first to rinse the thin layer off before you put it on your body. Problem solved. Humans have been using solid soaps for almost 3000 years. Liquid soaps have all sorts of synthetic surfactants and dyes etc.
Anonymous
We only use bar soap. I try to eliminate as much single use plastics and that was a no brainer.

I lather my hands. Kids do the same.

For guests, I provide hotel sized wrapped bars.
Anonymous
You all are crazy. Any germs from the previous person come off as you lather your hands. If there were any to begin with. If that person washed their hands properly there wouldn’t be any to speak of.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Ew.
You guys share bar soap with random houseguests?
? I’d be grossed out as a guest (and maybe a little creeped out) if people offered their used bar of Ivory. That’s like offering your loofah full of dead skin for guests taking a bath.

On the rare occasion I use bar soap, like in a hotel, I rub the bar on my arms and then lather elsewhere with my hands.


My houseguests are hot, so I don’t mind.
Anonymous
You all are insane and have no idea how soap actually works.

Soap. Kills. Bacteria. That’s why we use it. All that gross stuff you’re so terrified of? Is why we use soap. Do you think it’s just for the fresh scent like an Irish Spring?
Anonymous
We use bar soap. Dh puts soap to body, and I lather and use my hands. Both the same but my soap lasts so much longer. He goes through a bar each week, it seems like.

I have never figured out how to use a washcloth/loofah. It sits there drying and getting stinky. Or I’ve added a new daily chore to my list.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:HOW DOES SOAP GET DIRTY?!?


If you rub a bar of soap between your butt cheeks after pooping, peeing, sweating all day and expect it to me germ free by the time you wash your face in the morning… think of all the people who leave hairs on the soap. No one is scrubbing the soap clean, the bacteria is layered and drying on the top.


+1

Think of all the bodily fluids on that bar soap!!!!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ew.
You guys share bar soap with random houseguests?
? I’d be grossed out as a guest (and maybe a little creeped out) if people offered their used bar of Ivory. That’s like offering your loofah full of dead skin for guests taking a bath.

On the rare occasion I use bar soap, like in a hotel, I rub the bar on my arms and then lather elsewhere with my hands.


My houseguests are hot, so I don’t mind.


True - if they are hot, I guess it doesn’t matter.
Anonymous
I think this is becoming an epic/classic DCUM thread.

The turning point was this PP:

"I have a bar of soap I use to clean the other bar of soap."
Anonymous
Bar soap only for showers and baths. I hate staying places where they only have body wash, ugh. I bring my own little bar when I go to people’s homes. No wash cloths, although I put them out for guests along with a brand new bar org soap and a tiny bath soap bottle usually from some hotel.

And for hand washing I have pump bottles which I refill from a big bottle. Same with dish soap. Just seeing how much plastic wrap we discard (frozen foods, bread bags, snacks) makes me anxious, and I try to reduce if I can.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:HOW DOES SOAP GET DIRTY?!?


If you rub a bar of soap between your butt cheeks after pooping, peeing, sweating all day and expect it to me germ free by the time you wash your face in the morning… think of all the people who leave hairs on the soap. No one is scrubbing the soap clean, the bacteria is layered and drying on the top.


I think you need to start thinking about the bar of soap the same way you think about a towel. You don’t take the towel, use it on your bum, then right on your face the next day. You wash it between uses. Same thing with a bar of soap. When you lather it and rinse it, it’s clean. There is no layering of bacteria on soap that you lather each time.

I don’t do this myself but this isn’t unsanitary.


I have a bar of soap I use to clean the other bar of soap.
lol. Thanks. This is funny.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Yep, I stick the bar of soap right up my butt. Then I rinse it off. I also use it on my lady parts. DH and I share a bar. No cloths.
who wedges a bar of soap right up their crack? You really should use a cloth to swipe clean all the little bile salts and poop particles that are in the puckering skin of your anus. You really are not getting a perfectly shiny hiney by just wedging a bar of soap into your crack. It’s not a thorough clean job.
Anonymous
Bar on body.
What’s gross about soap?
Anonymous
I can’t believe there are 8 pages on this topic. Thank u DCUM.
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