I'll start, I missed the outdoor cats struggle session so i don't know what its deal was except a vague idea that outdoor cats were bad, so I've let my two cats stay being outdoor cats because I feel bad locking them inside, like I want to give them some experience of freedom to go where they please so they can live more fulfilling lives
Edit: also kruschev is imo a lot better than most hexbear users give him credit for
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.
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There you go. That's the spirit. Now we got the struggle sesh.
Gonna blow your mind here: you wash them.
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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.
Hmm, people seem to have one each here. I don't think I see anyone with multiple wash clothes floating around.
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.
Objectively better at doing what? What goal are you trying to achieve? Does it reduce rates of skin infection? Improve skin health? Make you live longer? Make you happier? It really sounds like conformity to an arbitrary cultural perception of "cleanness" that isn't related to any actual health or sanitary issues, but rather, dare I say, artificially created by loofah companies to sell more loofahs (which, as biological planet material, are subject to decay and harboring bacteria!)
Removing dirt
Clean balls
Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, and also you can wear it as a hat.
I bet you dont use a bidet either.
I grew mine guerilla gardening in the sump pond a condemned ampartment complex. The complex is condemned because i released native bedbugs and sprayed community-sourced MRSA on the doorhandles in an act of anti-landlord praxis. The loofa gourds are not native however, and have started choking out the grasses of the local dogpark. This is a double blow against DSA PMC gentrification and i am a better leftist than you. I will send you loofa seeds by COD mail. You will grow them. You do not have a choice in this.
I bet you're not composting your drain-hair either.
Okay guerilla loofahs is cool as hell. I will start washing my balls now in honor of your good works.
Cleanballgang
Thank you for delighting us with another example of Hexbear Hygiene Advice™
Trying to clean up the left, one drum circle at a time.
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.
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Am I struggling right?
Smart, smart
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
Wash...cloth?
Like a cloth you use for washing?
Who has ever heard of such a thing?
How you wash and where and in what manner is very much a culture thing and varies enormously. Washing legs is one that used to pop up a lot on reddit, with half the thread being like "Wash what? there's nothing on my legs?" and the other half denouncing them as horrible slime monsters who should be held down and scrubbed for their own good.
Now we're making progress!
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.
Rainwater contains microplastics, sweaty. I only wash with distilled white fuel.
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
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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.
No. It's a combination of culture and personal choice. Bathing practices very enormously across different cultures and such. There's probably a pretty cool youtube series on going around the world and talking about how different people wash.
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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