Forgot to add I have a bidet so my ass is clean anyways.

Makes sense to me. What kind of luffa do you use and from where?

Interesting. My husband is a white collar working in italian business tower, so the standards there are as high as you can imagine. But he told me he got incredibly better when he switched to carnivore/some clean diet, and mostly thanks to cold showers, that it helped him with sweating altogether. So now he just showers with cold for years, uses some olive soap like a usual guy would (and I will not spread this description any further) and uses cologne on his armpits mostly for the nice smell. I think he steals my shampoo maybe once a week or less, not much. I have a nose of a bloodhound and have no issues with him.

With us women it's probably more complicated, not only are we generally more delicate, but I remember terrible issues when pregnant - maybe it was my imagination, but unless I showered three times a day, I felt like a fat bus driver on a hot day💀 Back then I turned from castille soap and all that natural idealism to expensive bubbly crap, because💀💀💀

Reading this just before a shower, and starting my experiment immediately.

Thank you!!

That is disgusting. Everyone in this thread is a dirty disgusting dirt burglar.

I'd say there's an emotional component to fragrances in a hot shower for some people, like "psychoaromatherapy".

Personally, I'm happy if she's happy with how I smell by my natural self. I don't need lavender or mint or whatever.

I haven’t used soap since my teens!

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Tits, pits, holes and soles.

What luffa do you use? I basically do the same thing, though I use soap probably once a week but use a cloth for exfoliation during showers. I need a better luffa game

Woohoo dude - welcome to the club.

No soap. No shampoo. No deodorant. No toothpaste.

Exfoliating shower gloves. Citrus, vinegar and olive oil, for soap and shampoo. A muslin bag filled with rosemary, thyme and/or citrus peel, jasmine. Just jam them under my armpits. Baking soda and water into a paste for teeth.

OK it doesn't improve my looks and there is a lot of prep work involved - but it does wonders for my body or my mind. Not sure which.

What farm is it that you work on? Where?

If you are a pita/vata dosha in ayurvedic medicine they'd recommend only using soap on your stinky parts not the entire body. At least that's what I was recommended.

I consider this fairly irrefutable. Water, Time, heat, and scrubbing with an abrasive are sufficient to get your body clean eventually it’s just a question of effort and technique. Having said that, you claim you are still using soap on hands and feet and hair. So presumably you too have found utility in soap for those areas. It’s not completely a hold over from cold water.

Sorry dude, this is foul

Only shower a few times a week as opposed to every day. Feels better.

Unfortunately I swim five days a week in a chlorinated pool. But I will definitely take you up on this on the weekends!

can't say the same about soap use but I wash my hair very sparingly which surprises most people.

On average I'll wash it about every month with store bought shampoo that's a little fancy but I buy it at Target so it's not that fancy.

I've been doing this for many years and I noticed that my hair doesn't get greasy as fast as it used to and I'm pretty sure it's because excessive shampooing (like everyday, every other day) strips your scalps natural oils.

I do use a boar bristle brush to brush from scalp to ends which I think contributes to distributing scalp oils to my ends. Even then, the climate here is so dry that I apply a hair oil anyway.

not sure if this is relevant but I wanted to share anyway because I see some parallels.