312 points

who shower barehanded

There is another way…?

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What? What kind of heathen doesn’t have a pair of heavy duty work gloves for showering? Am I the only civilized one among us?!

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Personally I never get in the shower without my circular saw

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I know toasters are for bathing, but hadn’t heard circular saws were better for showers. TIL.

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Personally I never shower.

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My local supermarket sells these “exfoliating gloves” that you wear in the shower and basically just use like a wearable washcloth. They’re awesome.

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I love these, it’s the best of both worlds. You get the scrubbing and exfoliating of a wash cloth with all the ease and precise control of hands.

They’re like $4 I highly recommend them to everyone.

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Arc welding is my favorite shower activity. You need ppe

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What if you only have PP? Where to get the E?

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I imagine they mean without a cloth, poof, or loofa. As a kid I would put body wash in my hand, lather, and rub it over my body. But it tended to use up soap quickly so either I had to add more soap part way through or the things I washed last didn’t get washed well. Which is why I switched to a poof.

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34 points

you dont wear shower mittens?

the people on this federation, i fucking swear.

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A “washandje” of course!

Bonus for the Dutch speaking people.

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12 points

a washandje

That sounds like something you ask for at an unlicensed massage parlour

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I use the korean version of that

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Ahh yes the manhwash

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12 points

Wash cloths?

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I have some stupid questions from someone who rolls barehanded…

  1. How do you get the soap to lather well when using a wash cloth? I tried it once but it didn’t work all that well.

  2. Are you supposed to use a new washcloth every time you shower? If yes, how many washcloths do you go through a week and how much does this add to your laundry bulk. If no, aren’t you kind of grossed out by a used, wet, bacteria filled rag being rubbed all over you?

I once saw a post from someone not understanding how bare handers could possibly get clean from only using their hands. But…it’s not like you use a washcloth when you wash your hands and no one is grossed out by that. Why are people then randomly grossed out when you apply that to showering? The action of soap with mechanical disruption, be it with your bare hands or a washcloth, does well to remove grime and bacteria.

To the OP, I lather in my hands with a bar of soap and then wash my body with my sudsy hands…going back to the bar of soap and even “washing my hands” often enough when necessary.

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I use an exfoliating washcloth like this. It lathers really well. Scrubs off the dead skin and it’s long so you can scratch your back. It air dries fast.

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How do you get the soap to lather well when using a wash cloth? I tried it once but it didn’t work all that well.

It lathers better than soap/hands for me.

Are you supposed to use a new washcloth every time you shower? If yes, how many washcloths do you go through a week and how much does this add to your laundry bulk.

Not I. I change mine weekly. Even if I did daily, they’re tiny, so 7 would be about the same mass as a shirt.

If no, aren’t you kind of grossed out by a used, wet, bacteria filled rag being rubbed all over you?

Not anymore than rubbing a used, wet, bacteria filled bar of soap being rubbed all over you. Or used, wet, bacteria filled hands.

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First time I heard of that. What is the advantage they have compared to just using your hands, besides the lathering abilities mentioned in one of the replies to this comment which is something I never had a problem with?

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I lather up a washcloth and scrub that way.

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That’s the way all our great-grandparents did it. But with a bowl of warm water.

Uses just a fraction of energy & water. With the abundance of cheap energy, affordable piping and heating became affordable for the masses.

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I mean, I also use an actual shower for the rinsing and hair, I just use a washcloth instead of my bare hands or a bar for soaping everything up.

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I use soap bar bags… I can’t figure out if that qualifies as barehanded or not

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I wash myself with a rag on a stick.

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You can also get shower brushes, mostly for dislodging dead skin cells…

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

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Dat special scent from Yankee Candle

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4 points

A yes, the Gere technique

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I do this too, but I use the moves I learned during my breakdancing days to spin on my head and evenly distribute a layer of suds all over my body. It’s super efficient!

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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.

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I mean… doesn’t the soap get washed as you use it to wash yourself?

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15 points

Exactly

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7 points

We need to invent a slur for bidet-non-havers

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7 points

I just set the shower to massage setting and then point the end at my asshole.

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…I’m supposed to wear gloves in the shower?

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Wait, are we not all wearing gloves?

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what gloves

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Fancy lady gloves with lacy cuffs.

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How are you supposed to thoroughly clean your butthole?

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16 points

My butthole is self cleaning.

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If you ever do check that theory for its veracity, you moght be surprised.

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8 points

Shampoo

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3 points

With a potato, in my anus…

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With a potato, in my anus…

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

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Watch out for Big Soap! They don’t want the people to know your one weird trick!

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