You know, I can understand not needing to scrub if you live somewhere where you don’t really sweat or it’s not humid enough that dirt just sticks to you because you exist, but that’s not me and the thought of someone just wiping themselves with soap makes me feel icky. I need a shower.
No. The point of soap is to reduce the surface tension of water so that grime, oils, and bacteria can’t stick around.
This is why the CDC recommends wetting before applying soap… Because the moment the soap propagates through the water (which happens extremely fast) is the moment microorganisms lose their grip. Applying (wet) soap beforehand reduces its efficacy.
Anything unsanitary stuck to or in the soap isn’t going to be able to stick around once rinsing takes place.
Also remember The Law of Conservation of Filth: For something to become clean something else must become dirty. The water is what’s getting “dirty” because of the soap.
You fucking bet I scrub my feet. I rock climb and as most climbers do I wear my climbing shoes without socks, which also means they collect a ton of dead skin cells and sweat which makes them smell absolutely vile. I spray them all the time with a multitude of bacteria and fungus killing products, even wash them from time to time, but there’s no real solution. I just treat them as biohazard when not climbing. So yes, I make an effort to thoroughly scrub my feet to ensure they don’t retain the smell and to try to reduce how many dead cells end up in the shoes.
You’ve never had to play a game of chase the pube around the soap bar. It’s a phenomenon physics has not yet found a way to explain, but rinsing soap with a pube on it just causes the pube to quantum jump to the other side of the soap bar.
I mean, yeah? I don’t use a wash cloth anymore, I use a different kind of scrubber that dries out quickly, but when I used a wash cloth I just used a different one every day. Marginal impact on my laundry and a pack at Target was cheap. Every day I could wash my face with a clean cloth and then wash the rest of my body.
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.
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