Those of you who shower barehanded: Do you lather and then use your hand, or just shove the soap wherever it needs to go?

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who shower barehanded
There is another way...?
- What? What kind of heathen doesn't have a pair of heavy duty work gloves for showering? Am I the only civilized one among us?!
  
  Personally I never get in the shower without my circular saw
  
  Time to wipe
  
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  This is wonderful
  
  I know toasters are for bathing, but hadn't heard circular saws were better for showers. TIL.
  
  Personally I never shower.
  
  My local supermarket sells these "exfoliating gloves" that you wear in the shower and basically just use like a wearable washcloth. They're awesome.
  
  I love these, it's the best of both worlds. You get the scrubbing and exfoliating of a wash cloth with all the ease and precise control of hands.
  They're like $4 I highly recommend them to everyone.
  
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- I imagine they mean without a cloth, poof, or loofa. As a kid I would put body wash in my hand, lather, and rub it over my body. But it tended to use up soap quickly so either I had to add more soap part way through or the things I washed last didn’t get washed well. Which is why I switched to a poof.
- you dont wear shower mittens?
  the people on this federation, i fucking swear.
- A "washandje" of course!
  
  Bonus for the Dutch speaking people.
  
  a washandje
  That sounds like something you ask for at an unlicensed massage parlour
  
  I use the korean version of that
  
  Ahh yes the manhwash
- Wash cloths?
  
  I have some stupid questions from someone who rolls barehanded...
  How do you get the soap to lather well when using a wash cloth? I tried it once but it didn't work all that well.
  Are you supposed to use a new washcloth every time you shower? If yes, how many washcloths do you go through a week and how much does this add to your laundry bulk. If no, aren't you kind of grossed out by a used, wet, bacteria filled rag being rubbed all over you?
  I once saw a post from someone not understanding how bare handers could possibly get clean from only using their hands. But...it's not like you use a washcloth when you wash your hands and no one is grossed out by that. Why are people then randomly grossed out when you apply that to showering? The action of soap with mechanical disruption, be it with your bare hands or a washcloth, does well to remove grime and bacteria.
  To the OP, I lather in my hands with a bar of soap and then wash my body with my sudsy hands...going back to the bar of soap and even "washing my hands" often enough when necessary.
  
  I use an exfoliating washcloth like this. It lathers really well. Scrubs off the dead skin and it's long so you can scratch your back. It air dries fast.
  
  How do you get the soap to lather well when using a wash cloth? I tried it once but it didn’t work all that well.
  It lathers better than soap/hands for me.
  Are you supposed to use a new washcloth every time you shower? If yes, how many washcloths do you go through a week and how much does this add to your laundry bulk.
  Not I. I change mine weekly. Even if I did daily, they're tiny, so 7 would be about the same mass as a shirt.
  If no, aren’t you kind of grossed out by a used, wet, bacteria filled rag being rubbed all over you?
  Not anymore than rubbing a used, wet, bacteria filled bar of soap being rubbed all over you. Or used, wet, bacteria filled hands.
  
  First time I heard of that. What is the advantage they have compared to just using your hands, besides the lathering abilities mentioned in one of the replies to this comment which is something I never had a problem with?
- I lather up a washcloth and scrub that way.
  
  That's the way all our great-grandparents did it. But with a bowl of warm water.
  Uses just a fraction of energy & water. With the abundance of cheap energy, affordable piping and heating became affordable for the masses.
  
  I mean, I also use an actual shower for the rinsing and hair, I just use a washcloth instead of my bare hands or a bar for soaping everything up.
  
  That's what I thought, hence I mentioned the bowl of water. Which was heated with wood or coal which had to be carried manually... in buckets... Imagine that :-)
- I use soap bar bags... I can't figure out if that qualifies as barehanded or not
- You can also get shower brushes, mostly for dislodging dead skin cells...
- I wash myself with a rag on a stick.

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