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Can we do "please use a washcloth in the shower?"
I think it has the potential to really annoy the core audience here, and also gives room for loofah posting.
I'll bite: why? its just another rag that I'll have to run through the wash every like 2 days
Because actually using a wet cloth to scrub something gets it cleaner than just putting soap on it then rinsing. If you think you're doing a good job scrubbing with your fingers, you aren't getting nearly as much coverage as you'd get in half the time with a rag.
also exfoliation.
There you go. That's the spirit. Now we got the struggle sesh.
Gonna blow your mind here: you wash them.
Some people rinse/wring. I hang mine to dry in the shower and just toss it in a bucket the next day to wash with the towels.
Rags are like $10 for a dozen, so like, as long as you're doing laundry regularly
, you should be fine.
Narrator voice: He was not doing laundry regularly.
Its not a matter of abrasion or exfoliation, so much as friction. Soap helps but the primary cleaning mechanism in any shower or bath is manually scrubbing dirt particles away. A washcloth or loofah is objectively better than your hands or a raw bar of soap.
Thank you for delighting us with another example of Hexbear Hygiene Advice™
Trying to clean up the left, one drum circle at a time.
Loofa
Loofas get gross quickly. Leaving a wet thing in your shower is inviting bacteria and mold that you'll keep scrubbing everywhere.
Washcloth way more hygienic. If you want it to be as gross as a loofah don't even bother replacing it.
If you rinse, wring out, and hang the loofa it dries oit.
PS in the spirit of this thread, I'll declare that your opinion makes you somehow anti-black.
I put up one of those sticky hooks near a window just for this purpose! Never had a loofah get gross on me. I am using the gourd type, too.
No I swear to god it's a yt people thing to not use wash clothes.
I upvoted but I don't know what yt means.
White
Now we're making progress!
These are baseless assertions - Your skin is covered in a layer of oils and skin that will capture your grime, and will naturally come off with hands and soap in running warm water. Unless you're regularly covered in like glue or you're showering every hour then using your hands will absolutely work to the same efficacy.
Exfoliation happens naturally, it does not need artificially scrubbing and materials unless you have a medical condition. My own baseless assertion is that scrubbing with a sponge or rag will remove more oils or skin than you should and instead expose and dry out your skin, making it worse.
I like to keep my assertions baseless, as it affords me more agility.
You'll need that agility to catch all the gross wet rags you're dropping.
spoiler
Am I struggling right?Just wash it with your towels. And loofahs that you never wash just turn into big bacteria sponges that you smear all over your body
but I already don't wash my towels enough (nothing awful but I like to get more than one use out of them) and washcloths get so much dirtier. easier to just spend the extra time and scrub with my hands
I wash my towels like once a week
I've got this rubber on that has soft rubber bristles.
tbf i don't shower hardly at all because i don't smell bad
Bunch of fake leftists in this thread. I only use rainwater to clean myself
A true leftist can banish bacteria and grime by sheer love of the people
Based Inframaterialist take
As an anarchist friend of mine once said, somebody's got to represent the stinkies.
This one is genius. It's genius because people can be mildly offended by it, and need to retort to defend their honor. "What, you're saying my body is grubby all the time?" "Of course I wash my washcloth after every use!" "No my bathroom is not infested with bacteria!" I'll be back in a couple of hours to check how it's going
This is acceptable. Thank you for your cooperation.
If you shave all the SMELL ZONES then hand-washing is enough.
Seal smooth gang stay winning.
Do people really not use a washcloth, loofah or sponge? I've used one all my life, and I'm broke.
These are lies sold to you by the wash-material bourgeoisie, comrade. You can absolutely handwash to perfect cleanliness without having a disgusting filth-collector to do it.
I only use one occasionally. I need to up my showering game.
i use a sponge
this mf using one of those green and yellow kitchen sponges in the shower l m a o
they're big pink ones :D
like this!
that's a cute sponge
Personally I retvrned to tradition and started rubbing myself down with olive oil and scraping it off like the Greeks of old
I'm using a loofah now, but if it doesn't help my acne soon I'm gonna take drastic measures and break out the steel wool