Do you wash your back?

@SecretSoul @starrynight21 Ummm really?

Actually I do wash mine.......... but Im in and out of the shower within 5 minutes. I do not smell stinky.
People that stink are those that arent washing at all. Or not washing their clothes often enough. They arent specifically not washing their pits, they arent washing enough at all.

Also laughing at all the variations of loofah.

I have a long-handled brush and give it a good scrub. I feel so invigorated afterwards.

I have definitely sat next to or been in close-proximity to people who apparently don’t wash their genitals. It really does smell.

@CrunchyCarrot

Not specifically but it all gets washed from soap and shampoo run off.

Or if you go in the loo immediately after someone, you can smell their dirty body and particularly their downstairs!

I used to get bad spots on my back which the GP thought might be caused by shampoo or conditioner run off so I've washed it ever since. I've got more flexible as a result!

Is the 'loafer' your DP?

Soapy toothbrush and a loafer?

The most surprising thing for me on this thread is hearing about donkeys resetting hair.
I have a lovely mental picture of donkeys working in the salon.

I use something similar. With bar soap.

I think my favourite thing about this thread is all the different spellings of loofah! I didn't realise so many people used them! I haven't had one for decades - I used to find it went all manky!

I wash all of my body using my hands and a bar of soap, in the shower every morning. I can (just about) reach all parts of my back, as I'm fairly flexible. I'm not at all obsessively hygienic (and often find MN bonkers on that score tbh), but it wouldn't occur to me to miss any bits out when I'm washing. I like a bath, but only have time for that once a week at the weekend, when I often use some body scrub.

I lather armpits, feet, and I clean genitals etc but back and things I let the soap run over. Honestly I have quite good skin and I put it down to not using lots of different chemical and no make up or skin cosmetics. I use a tiny bit of soap and water on my fave and only get one spot on my period. I think the cosmetic industry have women in a chikehold and unless you specifically need a product for overly oily or overly dry skin or eczema a etc then you don't need to load your skin. Let it breathe!

Yep. Over the shoulders then up from the waist. But I am Hypermobile so may make it easier.

That's amazing! 'Shiny suds' 😂

Surely washing your arse is a bigger priority than pits?

This cracked me up! 😂There are priorities? 'oh no, I have only a drop of body wash left - let me see, oh yes, here's my list - arse! Sorry pits, you are a lower priority, you will have to wait!'

You wash no other part of you? 🤢

😂😂
I too prefer baths. A good soak, scrub then rinse off with shower faucet.
I always wash and exfoliate my back.

We know we’re sitting next to those people. Because invariably they bloody stink.

If you don’t give your nether regions a proper clean, there’s a very distinctive kind of sweaty, yeast-like odour that wafts around. Totally different to BO but I think it’s actually worse! I know someone like this and her house actually reeks of it too, it’s genuinely grim.

I don’t obsessively scrub my back or legs, occasionally they’ll get a proper scrub but rarely. I do scrub my arms when I shower, and my neck, chest, under arms, and down below, front and back. Also, I soap below my boobs every day - that area is one of the hottest and sweatiest and needs washing at least once a day. Might be less of an issue if you’re smaller up top.

But fannies and arses really do need washing properly. People who have to sit next to you will be thankful.

You might not say anything, but PHEW ! Yes your fanny can smell appalling for those poor people sitting next to you. In my long life I'd say that the people who've told me " I don't smell bad .......my fanny doesn't need soap" etc, they are the ones who absolutely reek when you are next to them.

I have one of these too. So easy to use, gives your back a good scrub.

Yes with a long handled wooden back scrubber and sulphur soap otherwise I still get spots on my back. I can feel the conditioner on my back until I wash it off. Don't shower daily though or brush up my bum! 😳

A long Korean towel.
It exfoliates very well

I don't scrub my back. Might reach to give it a wash but I assume the shower gel, water and shampoo from elsewhere will clean it, but I definitely clean down there with shower gel. If you use the toilet daily you need a proper clean. As long as you aren't inserting soap inside you it's not going to do any damage. Aren't you a bit stinky if you don't clean down there properly?

Letting soap run over your body isn't cleaning anything properly.
There's a reason why we scrub the likes of dishes and don't just let water run over them.
A loofah is fine to use.

@BananaPyjamaLlama

Newsflash. You are sitting next to people, chatting with people etc with that same routine (or very little extra) daily. And you've never noticed because its not a noticeable issue.

It gives a heavy boak in the bedroom though 🤢

I scrub every inch with pears or dettol soap. Not sure how you lot that 'let the water run down' feel clean