Anonymous wrote:I wash EVERYTHING with dove bar and a washcloth. Literally takes 10 min to suds up and rinse.

Shampoo & condition my hair every 2-3 days depending on how it looks.

Op, your DH is showering right. You people who just rinse are probably the stinky ones in public that don’t realize how bad they smell.

10 minutes in the shower is a a slap in the face of everyone struggling to meet their water needs. Holy cow.

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Anonymous wrote:How are people here not washing their feet? That is NASTY.

NP. I don't, because we don't wear shoes in the house, and I literally never leave. Also I'm losing a ton of hair and have to use Drano once a week, so there's usually water pooling in the shower that cleans them well enough.

Drano is terrible for your pipes. Get a hair trap.

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Anonymous wrote:I pee in the shower.

Doesn’t everyone?

Eww no. I don’t. My kids bathe in that same tub that the shower I use is over.

Anonymous wrote:Dried sweat, oil, and bacteria isn’t coming off your with a rinse. Anything without soap and a washcloth is for camping.

Sweat is water soluble, so yeah it’s coming off.

My limbs don’t produce much oil and what it does I’d like to keep.

My limbs are also not colonized with odor causing bacteria and I’m not too worried about harmful ones.

Dried sweat, oil, and bacteria isn’t coming off your with a rinse. Anything without soap and a washcloth is for camping.

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Anonymous wrote:I wash EVERYTHING with dove bar and a washcloth. Literally takes 10 min to suds up and rinse.

Shampoo & condition my hair every 2-3 days depending on how it looks.

Op, your DH is showering right. You people who just rinse are probably the stinky ones in public that don’t realize how bad they smell.

I love when people who don’t wash their hair every day try to tell people they stink. Unlike your leg, your scalp actually produces lots of oil and sweat and hair holds onto scent. If there’s anything you should wash every day besides your butt and armpits it’s your hair. I don’t really care that you smell a bit like old sebum, but you don’t have room to tell anyone else they smell.

+1 dirty scalp smell is nauseating. I would much rather you forgo the full body cleanse and just focus on the swampy parts and use that time to wash your hair every day. It’s so nasty.

Anonymous wrote:I wash EVERYTHING with dove bar and a washcloth. Literally takes 10 min to suds up and rinse.

Shampoo & condition my hair every 2-3 days depending on how it looks.

Op, your DH is showering right. You people who just rinse are probably the stinky ones in public that don’t realize how bad they smell.

No, your stinky with your greasy hair.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a nurse. Ladies, you might think you don't smell, but you do.

I can assure you that the length of my limbs, which don’t sweat and are not exposed to anything dirty, smell just fine and there is no need to scrub them.

You can wash without scrubbing.
And yes, if you don't wash, you do smell.

Sniffing my forearmarm right now, which probably hasn’t gotten soaped up in…3 or 4 months?. Smells like nothing. I think I’m good, thanks though!

Same. All scrubbing would do is waste water and soap, plus dry out my skin.

Why is it so hard to understand that you can wash parts of your body without scrubbing them?
I'm sitting here in disbelief that DCUMers seem think showering means either some major exfoliation or...just standing there. Didn't any of your parents teach you how to wash yourselves?

This 100%. And a reminder, just because you are used to or can’t smell your funkiness anymore doesn’t mean everyone else can’t.

What activities are you engaging in that involve you getting so close to strangers that you can smell them?

Other than my wife and kids, I'm rarely that close to anyone to actually smell them. You're kind of odd.

Anonymous wrote:I wash EVERYTHING with dove bar and a washcloth. Literally takes 10 min to suds up and rinse.

Shampoo & condition my hair every 2-3 days depending on how it looks.

Op, your DH is showering right. You people who just rinse are probably the stinky ones in public that don’t realize how bad they smell.

I love when people who don’t wash their hair every day try to tell people they stink. Unlike your leg, your scalp actually produces lots of oil and sweat and hair holds onto scent. If there’s anything you should wash every day besides your butt and armpits it’s your hair. I don’t really care that you smell a bit like old sebum, but you don’t have room to tell anyone else they smell.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a nurse. Ladies, you might think you don't smell, but you do.

I can assure you that the length of my limbs, which don’t sweat and are not exposed to anything dirty, smell just fine and there is no need to scrub them.

You can wash without scrubbing.
And yes, if you don't wash, you do smell.

Sniffing my forearmarm right now, which probably hasn’t gotten soaped up in…3 or 4 months?. Smells like nothing. I think I’m good, thanks though!

Same. All scrubbing would do is waste water and soap, plus dry out my skin.

Why is it so hard to understand that you can wash parts of your body without scrubbing them?
I'm sitting here in disbelief that DCUMers seem think showering means either some major exfoliation or...just standing there. Didn't any of your parents teach you how to wash yourselves?

This 100%. And a reminder, just because you are used to or can’t smell your funkiness anymore doesn’t mean everyone else can’t.

I soap my feet, neck, pits 3x, and private bits unless I am visibly dirty. I sometimes use a nice smelling body oil or soap all over.

I was my face in the sink morning and night.

I wash EVERYTHING with dove bar and a washcloth. Literally takes 10 min to suds up and rinse.

Shampoo & condition my hair every 2-3 days depending on how it looks.

Op, your DH is showering right. You people who just rinse are probably the stinky ones in public that don’t realize how bad they smell.

Anonymous wrote:Why is DCUM so obsessed with showering? It’s baffling. There is at least one post every month about showering. How difficult is it?

I’ve never given it a second thought nor care what anyone else does but clearly lots of DCUM does.

It’s a striver/new money thing I think.

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Anonymous wrote:In addition to thoroughly washing your entire bodily surfaces, it is crucial to use antibacterial soaps.

No, there's no need whatsoever to use antibacterial soaps. They're no more effective than regular soap in actually getting you clean, and are one of the things leading to the rise of resistant bacteria.

Soap, when used properly, is more than adequate to get people clean. I can't understand this weird obsession some people have with washcloths.

Wrong.

The antibacterial soaps are specially designed to kill almost all types of bacteria which is what you need to keep from getting sick all the time.

And the ones they don't kill then become resistant to antibiotics, which is becoming a serious problem.

"Antibacterial" products are a marketing ploy to sell stuff to anxious germophobes. If you're properly lathering with soap, the soap will remove any bacteria. There's no need to use antibacterial soap to get clean, for the average person.
Do you even understand how soap works? Soap is naturally antibacterial because soap molecules physically destroy bacteria and other contagions in a way that they can't evolve their way out of.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a nurse. Ladies, you might think you don't smell, but you do.

If you’re a nurse, why aren’t you weighing in on all this potentially irritating soap on the vulva? Warm water and clean the folds with washcloth or hands.