When showering

[mb182]

Read an article in daily mail recently saying , when showering, you should only use soap or gel on bits and pits to avoid drying out your skin. Just water is apparently all that's needed to keep the rest of you clean. As someone who has washed every inch of my body with anti bac soap for the last 30 years since giving up baths, I found this hard to believe. When I asked my daughter, sister and husband what they thought, I was surprised that they all only soap bits and pits. How could I not know this? AIBU to ask what your showering habits are?

[Cuddlymummy77]

Pmsl At Queenbean's comment! 😂

[RubbishMantra]

G'wan Pineapples, treat yourself!

A little goes a loonng way. And You're Worth It, right!? and it's paraben/silicon free.

Reckon tis cheaper at supermarkets than independent chemists.

[rubybleu]

Pits, bits, feet, face and hair with a mild fragrance-free body wash followed by Aveeno moisturiser.

My skin would fall off otherwise.

[mercifulTehlu]

All over, including bits, with a mild, moisturising shower gel. I have never had thrush in my life, and clearly loads and loads of other women use shower gel on their bits with no ill effect either, otherwise they would presumably stop using it .
I started using soap for a while instead of shower gel, but my skin got a bit itchy. Love Korres stuff, but haven't seen any for ages. Where do you buy it? Don't say Waitrose - haven't got them oop here!

[mb182]

Inspired by so many people not soaping all over, I've started a week's experiment" I'll soap only face, neck, pits and between the legs. This morning after soaping just those areas, I gave my hair just a rinse without shampoo. I have to say it was a revelation. Five minutes instead of 20 minutes and I felt so much more refreshed. I usually feel worn out after a shower - got severe arthritis in knees- but I fairly bounded out the shower room this morning. I just wonder how long I'll be able to go without using shampoo as my hair usually feels greasy without a daily shampoo.

[Cheezewhizz]

One squirt of shower gel, under arms, round boobs, suds over shoulders an down front.
I don't use the actual gel anywhere except under arms, and no soap of any sort near my 'bits', that's thrush-city doing that

Same here.

YANBU to wash however you like.
YABU to use anti bac and read the daily fail.

[quencher]

Are people trying to save water? Has this come about as a result of trying to save water ? Threads like this always gives me the creeps. I don't know why but it does. Am not judging, each to their own.

[Cheezewhizz]

I wash my hair every day. I never spend more than 10 mins in the shower.

[TuckingFablet]

All over here too with dove showergel. Shower once a day if I don't shower in the morning I feel minging all day

[KateLivesInEngland]

There is quite a lot of information around about actually going shampoo free. How to do it without looking too greasy etc. Might be worth a look if that's what you want to do.

Ha, fellow granny flamingbluemonkey
Elspeth, I too have a little soap shelf thing. It just keeps it away from the water.

With regards to tight skin, I've always used soap now so I think it's just what my skin is used to. I think that's just the same for everyone.
Plus if I've shaved, probably every other shower, I slather on the Aveeno lotion and that shit is gooood.

[UptownFunk00]

Pits, arms, chest and breast and underneath the breast too. Belly and upper legs.

I tend to FemFresh my bits soap seems pretty aggressive for down there.

I should wash my feet really but often don't - I rush my showers these days having a 3 yo and 4mo.

Some interesting showering habits!

[quencher]

I thought about doing the experiment but I won't. I have just remembered that when I was pregnant I struggled to shower and having a bath because of pain in my joints for about six months. I had the worst skin then. I could not even bend to wash my legs. It was flakey and dry. If not washing was good for my skin, this would have have been the time to prove me wrong.

[Peasandsweetcorn]

My routine is into shower, turn water on & blast face, wash hair with shampoo & put conditioner on, lather up soap on hands & wash bits & bum, rinse hands, lather up again & do pits and around bobs, lather up again & do feet. Rinse conditioner out & get out of shower.

[Bambi2105]

I use body shop non soap shower gel all over every day otherwise I don't feel clean.

[ThePebbleCollector]

What the hell is with everyone's obsession about knowing how other people wash themselves???

If you don't stink or have dirt in any crevices I don't care how often you are doing it or what with you are doing it with, you are probably doing it right.

[wiltingfast]

Wash all over here! Always felt it seemed a bit ott but carried on regardless. Doesn't seem to do me any harm.

My dh used to do this but tbh the oils were coming off on the towel instead and making them VV smelly. After one use. It baffled me for ages how he was smelly after a shower. Turned he wasn't using soap...

I think he still skimps on the soap but he firmly has his own towel now soooo I leave him be

[magratvonlipwig]

Soap on pits and bits with proper rinse. Nice smelling shower creme on a puff thingy for the rest of me

[MozzieRocks]

I don't think shower gel cleans, it's just fragranced foam. So for me it's Dove soap on bits, pits, feet, face wash for the face and shower gel on a puff thing all over the body then thorough rinsing. TMI I used to have such smelly feet when just washing them with shower gel, my DM said to use soap and I have ever since successfully. DP likes soap the more old fashioned kind the better and an exfoliating glove nothing else.

[liz70]

I bath or shower once daily using facial wash plus shower gel/ cream or moisturising bar with flannel, washing everywhere then applying face cream (usually Nivea Soft) and moisturizing lotion afterwards. Hair is washed every other morning, usually with 2 in 1 for quickness.

I have no particular skin issues with this regime.

[MadeMan]

"I don't think shower gel cleans, it's just fragranced foam."

Yeah if you want something that actually cleans as well, then use Fairy Liquid instead; it really brings out the colours on an inflated bouncy castle when you squirt it all over one and let it froth up a bit when the kids start jumping about.

[SapphireStrange]

Shower gel has surfactants in it that clean you, doesn't it? I don't smell I hope from just using shower gel.

[honeylulu]

When people say they don't soap their "bits" as they're self cleaning do you refer to the vagina only or the whole collection of female genitalia? Maybe I am minging but although I am content my vagina and inside the labia minora self cleans the rest of it (for the sake of clarity: pubic area, around the clitoral hood, between the labia majora and minora and perenium) definitely needs a bit of a lather to remove sweaty smells and a sort of greasy film of shed skin cells etc. Water just doesn't do it. But as I said, maybe I'm just particularly rank.

[minipie]

honey I can only speak for myself but I will use a bit of leftover shampoo or soap on the mons pubis /pubic hair but nothing inside the outer labia except a lot of water.