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

[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.

[Anonymous]

No one mentioned a burgundy washcloth yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lather bar soap on my hands and use that. I don’t like the feel of wash cloths or loofahs and I don’t actually like any body washes. I love my cetaphil moisturizing bar soap. I put it on little soap trays (those are easy to wash in the shower) and it stays decently not gunky.

Guests get a new bar, and all hand washing is done with pump soap dispensers.

how do you scrub your butt crack? Just with your hands?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The advantage of a washcloth is that it is rough so can remove stuff with its slightly abrasive action. You people that lather but don't use the bar directly, how are your slimey hands able to remove anything stuck on that needs exfoliation?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I use a bidet and clean myself well, so I don’t need to use a wash cloth. Just a bar of soap