Those of you who shower barehanded: Do you lather and then use your hand, or just shove the soap wherever it needs to go?

who shower barehanded

There is another way...?

I shove the bar of soap strait up my ass and just express the foam into my hand from there until I'm done.

I mean, yeah?? I just put the soap wherever it needs to go??

The soap isn't dirty folks. Half of the time all I'm showering off is sweat and dead skin cells anyways. And if any bugger dares reply to this with some clever comment about taint smears, I'll inform you beforehand I do not speak with bidet-less miscreants.

...I'm supposed to wear gloves in the shower?

I just rub the shower gel bottle over myself. It's lasting me ages

Soap on hands; hands on body.

I don't shower barehanded. I wear gloves at all times as to not scuff my jorts.

The way this question was phrased killed me. lmao

What I do is I take several guns and a baseball bat with me when I shower so that I'm never caught barehanded ever.

The same way you wash your hands

Liquid soap, problem solved.

There's liquid soap, you know. Didn't need to shove anything inside anywhere to stay clean.

Anywhere skin-on-skin contact occurs (butt, balls, armpits), I use a small amount of benzoyl peroxide facewash. It kills the bacteria responsible for BO and for 24-48 hours body odor is impossible.

You apply it, wait 5 minutes and rinse well. If you don't rinse well you can bleach your towel or clothes.

As far as body soap goes, I use a a fragrance free body wash with salicylic acid. Heavy mechanical exfoliation is not necessary when using a chemical exfoliant. Also, loofas are just a bunch of plastic waste.

After the shower, I use a lightweight gel moisturizer with cerimides. I use a thicker moisturizer on my hands and weenis.

That's just the body. I--of course--have a completely seperate routine for my face.

Use beard as soap distribution hub.

I lather everything on my belly and then spread it across my body.

Have you ever heard of shower gel?

Those of you who shower barehanded.

Huh?

Barehanded as opposed to what? I just rub the bar of soap all over and Robert's your mother's brother.

I use a bar of soap that is exclusive to me. I lather somewhere hairy, like my stomach, to build up some suds.Then, I soap everything with the suds and soap.

It wastes a ton of soap compared to a washcloth. And when I'm done I wash the bar off and wash my hands one last time. It's the quickest way I have found to shower. I am usually out in about 15 minutes.

I raw dog bar soap all day ery day. I don’t lather it up, just rub it on my body. Wash clothes are a PITA and I honestly don’t see an exfoliating benefit. Loofahs are gross. I prefer dove. Very cost effective and leaves me smelling fresh.

People who use exfoliating gloves and wash clothes are fine and all but it's not like the majority of the world works in high viscosity grease factories. I roll bare-handed and never stink or feel dirty during a typical day.

That soap does what it's told or it gets the hose again.

I just put shampoo on my head and t-pose

That bar of soap goes wherever it needs to go. I’m mean it’s made out of soap. So it self cleaning as far as I’m concerned.

Two words: pube loofah. The mons pubis is a great place to lather up. Then I just scoop up soap with my bare hands and bring it where it needs to be.

I don't care about any of that. What I really want to know is do you wash your legs?

Lather my hands and hit my crevasses.

Literal !showerthoughts@lemmy.world

I use a soap bar, and just scrub my body with it. It does the job.

I use a loofah, man you guys are really living up to the male stereotype haha

No one in here uses a loofa?!?

To quote Chandler: "Soap is soap! It's self-cleaning!"

I just use my chest hair, I feel like if I use a washcloth I’ll smell moldy without realizing it

This thread of comments is disturbing.

It’s soap. It’s a bar. I rub it on my wife then myself and then we rinse it off.

Follow-up question: do you wash your feet extra or do you also think that the shower gel water below will fix that?

Lather first

Also, a lifehack: if you have body hair, you can lather soap onto your hands and then just move them through your body hair

This allows you to generate tons of soap foam with which you can wash EVERYTHING

Shove the soap.

Lather and hands. Unless you live alone shoving the soap leaves hair on it and that's just nasty for everyone else to look at or deal with.

My shower has different cycles like a self serve car wash. I just move the dial to the appropriate setting and go from there.

I always start with that bubblegum-scented foam brush.

I swipe the bar of soap between my butt cheeks like a credit card...

what

Lather up by rubbing bar on hairy bits. Use hands to rub everything down with lather.

Look up the green "Asian body scrub" cloths. They're next level wash cloths that exfoliate, dry fast, and are washable. Bonus, they're super cheap. I swear by them and can't ever go back to other scrubbers.

Nice excuse for softcore

Isn't the soap that touches the body ablated by friction with the skin?

For the longest time I used my hand lathering with the bar first, then realized using a washcloth works much better.

Ya'll ain't using a washcloth with your soap? 😬

Both, hard to shove soap on your back, easy on your belly

Bar goes where it needs to go

latherer reporting in o7

I soap up my hands and then wash every part of my body and reapply soap when needed. I have a scrub washcloth with handles that I occasionally use too.

I am a barehanded soap to shower poof convert. I moved to an area with a lot of heat and I can’t get all the oil off my body without friction. So I barehand soap on head, then load up the poof and then go like hell

I use liquid soap so going via the hand makes the most sense to me.

I lather up a washcloth.

I usually use a loofah or equivalent, but when I don't, I use one hand to hold the soap and rub it on against the skin, and the other hand to lather and spread soap around. Switch hands when necessary.

I also tend to soap up my face first, then the ears, then down towards the neck and the torso, arms (and hands), and legs (and feet), and then the areas that need extra attention (armpits, groin). And then rinse.

That whole routine is done twice, with shampoo and conditioner in between. I sometimes leave some parts soapy (like armpits and groin) if I think they need some soaking. I also leave the conditioner on my hair for most of the "2nd soaping", only rinsing it thoroughly (and making sure that the conditioner runoff don't touch any other part of my body) just before the final rinse.

I haven't used soap in the shower for at least five years. Only when cleaning hands, and I do use antiperspirant) I just scrub myself with my hands in the shower top to bottom. (I am bald tho).

No one has ever mentioned me smelling bad, even my current co-workers who do say it if someone is smelling.

Yes

The answer is Dr. Bronners, and always towards the heart!

Soapshover all the way. All the way.

I personally use the Turkish oil ass grab method, super easy to clean and grab.

just shove the soap wherever it needs to go?

And this folks, is why I remind my family - Just because it's soap, doesn't mean its clean..

I always wash from top down, with the exception of hair I do last. Since I practically have none (bit of shampoo every few days) I don't think this matters unless I have been shat on by a bird or something!

Neck/ears/face etc first (after a good pre-lather - see above, then a post-lather), then shoulders armpits, arms etc, then belly, balls and bum, down the legs to the ankles. Like someone else said here, I'm 190cm and at this point I am already uncomfortably prone! Feet are always dancing around in soapy water so they are fine, and I never got toe jam so it must be okay.

Not sure what beforehand means, but I get in the shower, sit for 20 mins and think, then stand up, get wet, add bar of soap to wash rag, put wash rag all over my body, rinse, then get out and dry.

I use liquid body wash and shampoo. I pour on a hand, lather with both, then clean where needs to be cleaned. I can feel what’s dirty and I’m washing my hands immediately.

Lather, then use hand. I use a wash cloth to exfoliate though.

Rub soap all over my body and scrub it down like a crazy mofo.

Gross, who uses bar soap in 2023? Shit just smells bad

I lather and then spread it around though. My hands are clean because, y’know, it’s a shower and I’m using soap

The lack of scrubbing here makes me weep for your girlfriend's, wives, significant others. Knowing goddamn well y'all got stanky balls and asses and get musty by noon everyday because you haven't properly scrubbed the hair in your pits. Yuck, your parents failed all of you.

Both.

Lather and then I go "wax on, wax off" all over myself. Relather as I go.

Interesting question! In Scientology, there is a specific way to handle hygiene in order to maintain physical and spiritual well-being. When it comes to showering, here's what I was taught:

• Begin by taking a warm water rinse to wake up the body and get rid of any dirt or debris.

• Then, apply a small amount of soap to your hand or face cloth (if using) and start with the armpits, back, and neck areas first. This helps remove any excess energy that may be stuck in those areas.

• Use circular motions while lathering up, always moving towards the heart.

• Rinse off the soap thoroughly before applying more if necessary.

• Finish off by rinsing out any remaining soap and water from the hair and body.

By following these steps, you can ensure that your shower time is not only hygienic but also helpful for keeping negativity and thetans away. In terms of explaining the connection between hygiene and keeping thetans away, it boils down to the principle of "cleanliness=godliness." By taking care of our physical bodies through good hygiene practices like showering regularly and using good quality products, we are better able to keep negative thoughts and emotions at bay. Just as we would want to avoid touching dirty or stinky things, thetans also prefer a clean and fresh energy field around us. So, essentially, it's all about maintaining physical and spiritual cleanliness and care.

So, by showering properly and taking care of our personal hygiene, we can help keep ourselves and our surroundings free of negative vibes and energies. Does that answer your question? Let me know if you have any other questions related to Scientology or spiritual wellness!

I'm a hairy guy. So it doesn't matter. But if I use bar soap, I'll just rub it over the major areas first, then go back and lather. If it's body wash, I just squeeze a pool in my hand, and use my chest hair to create the lather, disperse to rest of body.

Depends if it's someone else's soap or not.

Why not both?

You amateurs don´t own a body brush? Pathetic!

Soap ain’t got no soul

So to the hole it go!!

Soap over the main parts, and lather with that over everything

Kinda both I guess?

both depending on area and what I use for cleaning (body wash vs soap)

Soap work with friction, so you are forced to use your hand to apply optimal on your skin and actually wash yourself.

I don’t rub the bar on my body. Lather, wash, rinse.

Bar soap sucks anyway, leaves a weird feeling.

Liquid soap all the way. (Body wash, hand wash)

On the occasions where I need to use just a bar of soap to shower with, I usually build up a big lather on my stomach and/or chest then spread it outwards from there (relathering on my torso again if there isn't enough initially.)