Normal to soap each area twice in shower?

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I'll soap and wash each part of my body twice in the shower, including my hair. Has anyone else noticed that once you wash an area twice, your skin has almost a slight rubbery feel? I think that's because you've really then washed away any remaining oil and dirt from your skin, and washing it the first time doesn't always remove it all. Anyone also notice how your hair lathers up better the second time you shampoo it? Anyway, that's why I wash everywhere twice, I don't think that you've washed away all bacteria either after one time. I think that rubbery feel after the second soaping and washing is the feeling of all greace, dirt, and bacteria being gone.

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  • lordofopinions
    5 years ago

    A little OCD to me.

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    • Alichael
      5 years ago

      I don't think it is if you're only showering/ scrubbing twice once a day, especially in the summer. You know how much bacteria is on everything we touch, and especially how much we're picking up when we're sweating in warmer weather? In the winter, I'll go a couple days without showering, unless I'm working out or something, but I still scrub every area twice when I shower.

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  • Boojum
    5 years ago

    If you're phobic about all the bacteria on your skin, you should wash yourself down with rubbing alcohol (UK: surgical spirits).

    Then your skin will be free of all the harmless and beneficial microorganisms which normally live there, and some really nasty ones will be able to take up residence because they have no competition.

    Manufacturers hype the benefits of antimicrobial soaps and scrubs, but outside the kitchen, hospital ward and operating theatre, they're unnecessary and can even be harmful.

    Here's a fun fact: more than half the living cells on and in your body aren't actually human. https://www.sciencealert.com/how-many-bacteria-cells-outnumber-human-cells-microbiome-science

    People who take strong antibiotics or have other treatments which completely destroy their gut flora often suffer acute problems before those bacteria are restored, and it's suspected that the normal western diet of highly refined foods screws up our gut flora so much that it causes various chronic illnesses.

    We evolved in association with a host of bacteria species. We rely on them to help us digest our food, and many of those that live on our skin benefit us.

    Also, that "rubbery" feeling after you soap and scrub twice is due to you removing all the natural oils from your skin. It's never made much sense to me why some people (women, in particular) are so fastidious about stripping off their natural skin oils once or even twice a day, and then slather on some overpriced manufactured gunk so they don't have dry skin. If you're feeling sticky and sweaty, a shower with a plain washcloth gets rid of that feeling. If you've got smelly or actually dirty bits, limit the use of soaps to there.

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    • kelili
      5 years ago

      Oh thanks, that's some real good advice. I will try to use less soap.

      And I'm not OP by the way.

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    • Alichael
      5 years ago

      The natural oils will usually be back on your skin long before your next shower, so I still feel that soaping myself twice to remove it once a day won't leave my skin short of nessesary oils, and it will help keep from too much bacteria accumulating on my skin, because I'll also likely pick up more bacteria on my skin long before my next shower, so I'll be coming into contact with enough bacteria during the rest of the day where I'd not have the problem of not coming into contact with enough. You know how much bacteria is sitting on everything that the average person touches in a single day? Scrubbing good in the shower and changing to freshly washed clothes once a day is probably the perfect balance. If I don't scrub in the shower once a day, too much bacteria will accumulate on my body and I'll have undesirable b.o.

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    • nikkiclaire
      5 years ago

      Only read to the rubbing alcohol. My god. Do NOT do that. That is terrible advice booj. I expect more from you.

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      • charli.m
        5 years ago

        And if you'd read it properly, you would have noted the sarcasm.

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        • nikkiclaire
          5 years ago

          God you are a spiteful bitch

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          • charli.m
            5 years ago

            ...how do you figure? All I do is point out when you say something wrong, ignorant and/or nasty. Or lie. On a public forum.

            Keeping in mind that you continually attack my sexual life and physical appearance, when you know nothing about either, purely because I didn't agree with you on something.

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  • Pumpurrnickel
    5 years ago

    It's overkill.

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    • Alichael
      5 years ago

      I don't think it's overkill unless you're showering more than once a day, I just shower once a day.

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  • [Old Memory]
    5 years ago

    I wash my hair twice and body twice.

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  • AssSnyffer
    5 years ago

    Shit, try like throughout the whole 10-20 minute shower. How can that ever be bad, other than expensive.
    Her slightly Misty butthole still smells bleachy n good tho.
    LLLLLLLickđź‘…

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  • [Old Memory]
    5 years ago

    It's called good hygiene, dude. everyone should do this.

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  • Nickvey
    5 years ago

    no matter how many times you later rinse repeat its still one shower , so i shower 2x a day. Unless i attend an autopsy and i have a shower in the back. its just hard to feel clean you know the feeling.

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  • TowelHead
    5 years ago

    This is normal. Don't forget to bring a towel.

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  • Ummitsstillme
    5 years ago

    Lather rinse repeat. Always repeat.

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
      5 years ago

      i followed the instructions but now im trapped in the shower in an endless cycle

      send help

      mebbe the iin fast response squad can save me

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      • [Old Memory]
        5 years ago

        Do you really want the iin squad extracting you from the shower? Think man, think.

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        • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
          5 years ago

          its ok i always showers with my clothes on

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          • [Old Memory]
            5 years ago

            They’ve been dispatched and are in route to your location, code 3.

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