I have noticed that many brands of soap have a convex side and a concave side. I can understand that the concave side would allow the soap to sit without sliding all over but my question is should you be holding the concave or convex side in the palm of your hand when you wash with it? Or, is the concave side for certain parts of the body and the convex is for other parts? Any help? I have noticed also that the soap does not come with instructions.
I always hold the convex part in the palm of my hand, and run the concave part over my skin… seems to work OK.
When the current bar of soap is almost gone, I unwrap a new bar, and use both bars in my next shower. Then while the bars are still wet, I put the old bar into the concavity of the new bar. They stick together well enough. None of this “chop up your soap and melt it down” business for ME.
Personally, I’ve always suspected that the concavity is one way to make the bar of soap look bigger.
Concave side for over the arms and legs. Convex side for rubbing in the armpits.
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In.
Out.
Repeat.
When this became too much of an issue for me, I switched to the body wash/puff option. Life is so much simpler now…
How long do I have to do this?
As to the OP, if you eat the soap (flaked, every morning, for breakfast, is the best) the soap will ooze out your pores and not only will it clean out your pores but you will be self-lathering in the shower.
On an almost completely unrelated subject, THEY say that North Americans love the bodywash/puff invention because we hate actually touching our own skin. Apparently, we’re funny that way.
I’ve heard this too. Specifically:
Liquid soap bodywashes have been popular in Europe for years, but they never caught on in th U.S. until the introduction of the Puff b/c we Americans are so uncomfortable about touching ourselves.
[genius mode ON] Use the concave side on bits of you that go out, and the convex side on bits of you that go in. [genius mode OFF]
Hurrah! The SDMB delivers the goods once again!
By the way, AWB, I share your amazement at the ‘instructions’ one finds these days. Before now I have come across a set of instructions supplied with a pack of toothpicks. Anyone wanna start a ‘Pointless instructions’ thread?
All you people rub the soap bar against yourself? I always lather up the hands, then rub the lather wherever I want it. Don’t have convex/concave issues - fingers and hands work great on either. Has the added advantage that if you share your soap bar with someone else and both of you use this method, you don’t have to worry about who’s been rubbing what. Plus, I can use practically the entire bar. I litterally use it down until it melts away on last use. Okay, maybe I get one or two crumbs of bar about the size of a Tic Tac.
The same technique also works for liquid soap. No puff needed. I do use a brush or occassionally a wash cloth to help with the back, mainly to help scratch rather than to rub soap on or off.
Another advantage, soap bar does not pick up nearly as many stray hairs.
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With common-sense reminders like “breathe in, breathe out” and “swollow,” Rossdale has saved the lives of countless idiots.