In the thread on acne, a lot of us encouraged a poster whose son had an acne problem to tell him to use a separate cleanser for the face. But I know a friend my age who has never used a separate cleanser for his face and thought I was being a bit silly when I was shocked at that.
I always have, since hitting puberty I guess. I use Cetaphil. I can’t imagine using anything so rough or coarse as regular soap on me, even though my soap is pretty gentle (Ivory). What about you guys?
In the shower, for my body, I use whichever Bath and Body Works fragrance I’m currently enchanted with (right now, it’s Butterfly Flowers). Just before I go to bed, though, I wash my face with Noxzema (or the generic equivalent thereof).
I’ve heard/read before of people who wash their faces and brush their teeth in the shower, and I just don’t grok. Not saying it’s wrong, just saying it’s not the way I’ve ever done it or ever intend to do it.
I brush my teeth in the shower usually.
I also use a different cleanser, but I have sensitive skin and soap is just too harsh. All the dyes and fragrance in the soap I use would probably strip my face.
Yup, I have since I was a teen. Soap for my body is just whatever I bought recently. I feel like my body needs moisturizer in the soap - and that my face totally doesn’t.
I use Dove Sensitive Skin Soap on both my body and face. I happy with the overall condition of my skin, so I’ll probably stick with it.
I’m with you on that. Although, I started doing it about a year ago. I never had acne problems until about a year ago when my poly cystic ovarian syndrome became severe and I started having acne problems. So I can understand people who don’t use separate ones, but I don’t anymore.
I use the same soap on face and bod. I also use a body brush - on face and bod - to exfoliate and get everything into a nice lather. I use whatever soap smells good at the local whole foods store. Usually its glycerin soap with lemon grass or tea tree or eucalyptus oil or something similar. I haven’t used the more common Safe Guard or Zest in years, mostly because their scents are unappealing.
Olay for the face, try to get tea tree oil bodywash for the rest. I use Dial sometimes, too, right now I’m using Dial Natural.
I use those Aveeno scrubby pads for my face and shea butter bar soap from Trader Joe’s for my body.
Same soap for face and shaved head (Basis gel, because it smells delicious!). Whatever soap exists for my body, currently Irish Spring, it smells so damn manly!
Cetaphil or olay for face, and some kind of body-scrub thing for my body, basically whatever smelled the nicest when I was shopping.
I used to use the same soap for both face and body, but after I got on the pill I started breaking out, so now I use Clearasil. I might look for something else, though, as it dries out my face something fierce.
Usually I just use the runoff from my shampoo. What does that count as?
At night I clean my face using oil (a mix usually of avocado, jojoba and rosehip), which is actually great at getting rid of makeup, and wonderful for my slightly dry sensitive skin. Sounds nonsensical, but I’ve found it works a treat.
In the morning I’ll shower and usually just rinse my face with water, while using a variety of soaps on my body. I’d never use these on my face, as they just feel too harsh.
[slight hijack]might I suggest Neutrogena? None of the fancy-schmancy new stuff Neutrogena has come out with (not that there’s anything wrong with them) but plain ol’ classic Neutrogena bar soap. I had the same problem as you when I was in my early 20’s. The Clearasil cleared up my zits, but dried out my skin so much that it was literally flaking off my face continually. Then I read some good reviews of Neutrogena soap in a women’s magazine, decided to try it, and loved it. I used it exclusively (on my face) until I got old enough to need a moisturizing routine.[/sh]
I realize this is my own personal hang-up, but ewwwww. The water in the shower is nice and warm on the body, but do you actually rinse your mouth with it? Uck. Again, my own hangup. But I won’t even drink room temperature water. Has to be cold, cold, cold for me to put it in my mouth!
frugal. 
Seriously, my hubby recently found an Irish Spring body wash/shampoo combo. IOW, it’s designed to be used as both. He’s really happy with it. Admittedly, his hair, which is thick, super-curly and beautiful, is much lower maintenance than my own thinning, limp locks. Hence, I need a more ‘specialized’ shampoo.
My fiance does that, too. It’s not so much frugal as (he admits) lazy. He doesn’t want to mess with two bottles and whatnot. He just grabs the Old Spice and goes.
I’ve got Aveeno stuff for my face, and Dove bar soap for my body. I need to switch back to the sensitive skin stuff, though, because regular Dove makes me itchy. And dries me out like crazy - 1/4 moisturizing cream, my ass.
I’ve always tried to use a different soap for my face. I think it probably stems from the days of horrible acne where I was trying every new acne-related face wash under the sun trying to make my stupid skin stop zitting up. I was washing my face a couple times a day with special stuff, so face-washing as a separate event from the shower feels normal to me. My fiance thinks it’s weird. “You just showered, why are you washing your face?” I keep my little Aveeno bottle in the shower caddy now so he can quit bugging me about it.
I have a bar of Neutrogena by the sink for when I’m Washing My Face. In the shower, I use a “beauty bar” (non-soap cleanser, like Dove, but this is a store brand) – and yes, I wash my face with it, in the shower, it’s mild and non-drying. (At my age, though I get the occasional zit, acne isn’t a big problem.) How on earth do you skip washing your face in the shower? Do you do it separately before or after?
same soap, body face and hair. I start at the top and work my way down, that way all the dirt falls as I wash.
Look, shampoo is a surficant, just like the stuff for the body or face. Unless you have some skin condition that requires something special, the face is pretty much the same material as the rest of your body. The only thing that affected me with acne was hormones, or the area not being clean [like skin to skin contact between my arm and my face when I slept keeping the oils and sweat in contact with my face. No matter how squeeky clean you start, the body is always shedding skin cells, oils and sweat. ]
I use Olay soap on my body, and Neutrogena or Basis on my face in the morning, although it doesn’t bother me to use the Olay soap on my face once in a while if I run out of the others. At night, I use one of those Olay scrubby things on my face, much better for getting makeup off.