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I should wash my hair.
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That seems more like a pre-shower thought.
Idk its definitely a pre-being-done-showering-thought that could definitely preceed a shower
Remember your towel protocol:
If you actually clean yourself in the shower this is unnecessary.
I still don't want my face to indirectly contact my own clean butt.
I want my face to directly contact someone else's clean butt.
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White for hands, brown for feet, green for torso, thighs and seat. And in the cupboard beneath the stair...
...you'll find the red for pubic hair.
Worst flag ever.
Indeed, it is always wise to be a hoopy frood.
If you're part of the Bidet Master Race and have a stack of mini butt/genitals-towels for use after bidet-ing, the whole towel becomes face-&-body with no worries
Clean yourself right and anywhere is good
You dry your entire body at the exact same time? I start at my head and work my towel down towards my feet. And then I throw the towel into the laundry.
You use your towel once and throw it into the laundry?
Yes, at least the one I use for showering. But I don't shower daily, to save water.
You could try reusing your towel a few times in order to save even more water, along with some electricity. Just hang it to dry in between.
My washing machine is not using less water because there's less laundry in the drum.
Is it on a fixed schedule?
You should really wait until it's full before doing the laundry... That way you use it less often and use less water.
At this point, all the stuff in the shower is sort of automatic. I’m usually thinking about other stuff.
Lucky you. I have to actually try to get anything done
I have to try to remember what I did while I was spacing out so I don’t wash myself three times.
"ok, do the hair first, now the pits, now the arms, now the torso, now the crotch, now the legs, now the feet-carefull dumbass you dont wanna slip again!"
It is so awkward when you trip and do a hand stand in the shower
Legs and feet are good with the run off.
Ew! That's nasty! What if some girl meets you at a coffee shop, and wants to suck your toes??? You just gonna have nasty toes that "dirty shower water has run over them, so it's fine"??? She'll never want to deep throat your foot with that attitude!!!
So I feel slightly bad about this now, but I know there was a solid year where I didn't wash my calves and below. I had been moved to a 0330 hours start time, and I was just a zombie when getting ready for work. I finally had adjusted everything after that year, and then it just hit me one day that I hadn't been washing my calves or feet. I would just get in the shower, and then go head to thigh and get out. Neither the spouse or I shave the legs, so it's not like that was taking care of the problem either.
And you know what? No one noticed. Not me, not coworkers, not the spouse, not the kids, not the dog (well, I don't really know if the dog noticed), not extended family members that I saw once in a while, and nobody that ever said anything at the beach/pool. My skin looked the same, I didn't have any extra odor... So I don't know. I'm just one data point, but I sort of get the whole 'no bathing' movement. It's maybe possible to get to the point where simply rinsing off muck and obvious grime is enough without having to scrub or clean. My personal opinion is that it would be nearly impossible in the more 'yucky' areas, like the groin and armpits, and you definitely want to have good care of the oils on your face and back/shoulders.
Sucking toes may not have been in there, but plenty of feet intimate moments did occur without issue. /shrug
Leave it to Matpat to take an issue that nobody knew was an issue, and then overanalize EVERYTHING!!!
That would bath time. I don’t want some girl sucking my coffee shop toes regardless of shower water or not.
Yeah that's fine
Dude no. You have to actually wash them, what's the matter with you?
Sir. You appear to be lost. This is a Wendy's.
Can you get mine while you are at it?
Take a piss for me while you're up?
Did I wash my hair? That's when I know I'll need extra coffee that day.
Put a few strands between your fingers and pull. If it squeaks, it's been washed.
No
Relatable
Biggest mistake is not repeating the wash-rinse twice. Ask a hairdresser why they do it that way.
Why don't you save everyone some time and say it yourself?
To get you to buy more.
I use far far less if I use a very small amount twice rather than a lot once. The shampoo will mix with oils in your hair and when you wash once you just keep rubbing the oil and detergent mix back onto yourself. Using a small amount and rinsing it off will make it function far better.
9 out of 10 hairdressers agree, what explanation is there needed
Oh bless.
It's 1:30 A.M. and the 24 hour hairdresser hotline (1-800-cut-hair) was shut down years ago, maybe you could explain.
If you read your shampoo label, it probably says the same thing.
Rinse, apply a small amount of shampoo, wash, apply some more shampoo, wash again.
This way, you first remove most of the oil from your hair, and the second time you actually clean it and the scalp.
In a way, it's like a dishwasher works with a pre-wash cycle.
Wash, rinse, repeat... It's an infinite loop, there is no exit statement. How many repeats? Sounds like "Big Hair" just wants us to buy more product.
I wash my hair once a week with water only, and it's fine.
Doesn't smell, doesn't look greasy, and my scalp is much healthier than when I still used shampoo.
I just looked at my head and shoulders bottle and it does recommend rinse and repeat. It does not however discuss why. I was more pointing out that the first person I was replying to could have just shared the information that they seem to have rather than saying ask someone.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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