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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.
using your hands is fine, how dirty are you people that you need to sand your body? I find that everyone who uses a washcloth type of thing uses it several times and not only does it makes the bathroom smell repulsive, but they're also wiping themselves with a bacteria rag
There you go. That's the spirit. Now we got the struggle sesh.
Gonna blow your mind here: you wash them.
if you do it after every use, it's probably fine. people who I've seen use them don't tend to do that
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.
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!
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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