Do you use a washcloth? What race are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I use one for washing my make up off at the end of the day, usually out of the shower. In the shower, I just use soap - different soap for face and for body but I don't get why you use both a wash cloth and a bar of soap for your body - are these wash cloth only people using shower gel instead of bars?

I'm white.

White washcloth user here:

Take your (wet, but wrung-out) washcloth. Spread it out and drape it over your left hand (assuming you are right-handed; if not, reverse). Use your right hand to pick up the soap. Make sure it is wet and, if not, put it in the water for a sec to get it wet. Now swipe it over the surface of the wash-cloth which is laid out over your open left palm. When finished, put it back n the soap tray/shelf/thingy on the side of the tub. Switch the washcloth back to your right hand (now it's spread out and draped over your open right palm). Now use right hand to clean whatever part of your body you are cleaning. All of the above really takes 2 seconds but I purposefully wrote out every elaborate detail for inquiring minds!

(This is how you use a bar of soap with a washcloth.)

[Anonymous]

wash cloths sound disgusting. just use soap and your hands and lots of warm water. strange ....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Microbiologist here. No washcloth. Hands are ideal. Everything is full of soap, and all skin is scrubbed, so no contamination can happen.

You may not be aware of the teeming multitudes of bacteria that reside in your washcloths.
Do you use a fresh one each time you wash? If so, no problem.

And no need to wash your bottom with a different washcloth either, unless you are a very poor wiper.
Soap and mechanical friction takes care of everything.
At the end of the shower or bath, there are no enteric bacteria on your hands.

[Anonymous]

I'm white. Use a washcloth when I use bodywash from a bottle. Sometimes, though, if I've forgotten to grab a cloth once in the shower, I just squirt the stuff in my hands and lather up all over. When my DD takes a bath, I leave a bar of soap on the edge of the tub and just tell her to lather up all over her body. Getting a kid to use a washcloth is sometimes difficult for smaller hands..

[Anonymous]

I wipe my butt with a TUCKS medicated pad after #2. But I don't use it on my face, just my bottom. Itchy hemorroids!

[Anonymous]

I'm white american, my husband is a black american. Neither of us use wash cloths. Neither of is did before meeting each other.

I do use a washcloth when washing my dog's face, though. He's white.
When he gets really dirty/muddy, I just can't get it clean with shampoo and water alone.

[Anonymous]

Washcloth users- how do you wash your hands? Are soap and water enough to clean your hands when they are dirty?

[Anonymous]

Do you share washcloths? Do you use one per day and wash them all weekly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Washcloth users- how do you wash your hands? Are soap and water enough to clean your hands when they are dirty?

I wash my hands several times a day so I worry less about them than I do my body (which is typically a morning shower and if I am lucky an evening bath). I also, wait for it... use a nail brush when I shower!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Munchkin from Kepler-186f...I use a washcloth.

For the win!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm white american, my husband is a black american. Neither of us use wash cloths. Neither of is did before meeting each other.

I do use a washcloth when washing my dog's face, though. He's white.
When he gets really dirty/muddy, I just can't get it clean with shampoo and water alone.

That should tell you something...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you share washcloths? Do you use one per day and wash them all weekly?

Never share. Use once and throw in a hamper. We do laundry more than once a week anyway.

There's a big stack of clean fluffy ones in the cabinet. I never let that run out.

I grew up really poor and didn't have a lot of basic things (I had a pillow made of old clothing duct-taped together), but my mother made sure I always had what I needed to clean my body. That meant a clean washcloth each morning even if we had to hand wash it the night before (Hand-washed items are actually cleaner than machine washed because you scrub them out.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Biracial person here and I don't use a washcloth when I shower.

Why are Asians, Middle Easterners, and other people excluded from this conversation? I'm curious to hear their responses as well.

South Asian here, no, don't use washcloth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Asian. I use an Asian scrubby washcloth:

thanks for posting this! someone gave me one a couple years ago and i love it! now i can order another one.

[Anonymous]

White and no washcloth but I always thought it was an age thing. Grandparents use washcloths.