You don’t want to get split ends, do you? It is hair after all and using soap is too harsh because it will wash away the essential oils.
With that said, I just use regular soap on mine. I should probably switch to shampoo and conditioner.
Oh, yeah, and I have it blown dry on some occasions. 
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Only if I’m really bored and don’t want to get out of the shower. On those days, not only do I wash and shampoo my pubes but I use a loofah and that body gel soap stuff and a pumice stone on my callused parts.
Usually I just shower with soap and shampoo.
You get callouses there? Wow- that’s hardcore!
I wash mine with honey.
:o I meant my feet. 'Cause when I don’t want to get out of the shower, I have two options: fall asleep against the side (Oh so dangerous, but oh so nice!) or go looking for dead skin to scrape off.
Whatever you do, DON’T use shampoo for the other popular shower activity.
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I don’t, but I know someone who does. She informed me of that fact in an alcohol-related overshare session. Not that there’s anything wrong with going all Vidal Sassoon on your crotch, truly, I just don’t want to know that much about what personal friends do to their coochies.
I use body wash. For some reason, bar soap makes my cooch stink to high heaven. Some ingredient in bar soap just doesn’t react well with me at all.
Somebody needs to talk to her about that. Do you have her number?
Slight hijack… Is it a woman thing to want to stay in the shower for-like-ever? Me? I’m in and out as quickly as possible, five minutes if I can manage it. It’s only much longer than that if the boss of me has a hankering for showery “activities.” Other than that I can’t wait to get out. She, on the other hand, can stay in there for a half-hour or more, and that doesn’t include washing her hair. What the heck? There are only so many centimeters of skin to cover and so many crevices to explore.
In an overwhelming fit of curiosity, I once tried sitting outside the shower to observe this inexplicable phenomenon. It, sadly, remains inexplicable to me, because after ten minutes I wanted to shoot myself and had to get out of there.
So, again, is a desire for a prolonged shower experience a gender thing and, if so, what’s the allure?
Not only that, but then I style it into spikes with gel and wax. I have punk rock genitals.
Well, I have long hair - so it takes me 'round about 10 mintues to wash and condition and rinse twice. Also, many days I’m also shaving my legs, which is an activity that takes between 5 and 10 minutes (depending) and isn’t really something that one should rush unless one wants to spend the next 15 minutes swearing and applying bits of toilet paper to the bleeding parts.
For the record, I know just as many men as women who linger in the shower. My brother, for example, used to spend between 20 and 30 minutes in the shower (his average was longer than my average by about 8 minutes - we used to keep track of this crap when we lived at home and shared a bathroom).
To answer the OP: I find that soap either dries my skin out in a particularly heinous fashion or (in the case of most moisturizing soaps) leaves me feeling weirdly greasy and/or waxy. Since neither condition appeals to me, and shampoo does not have either effect on my skin but is a surfactant with similar cleansing properties, I use shampoo to wash all my bits.
I have my stylist do it.
I’m really hoping none of our female dopers come in with mentions of toothpaste.
Not in my experience. Though I like the occasional long shower, my dearest BobPi is constitutionally incapable of spending less than 30 minutes in the shower, every single day. And this not definitely not related to, um, non bathing activity.
As for why I like the occasional long shower, I find the warmth and the water relaxing in both a physical and a meditative sort of way.
Ahem. I decided several years ago to try some baby shampoo on mine; it was right there in the shower since I use it on the children. BAD IDEA. I started getting yeast infections, one after another, for months. (I didn’t make the connection :smack: ) So, I went back to bar soap and haven’t had any more!
My husband stays in the shower about twice as long as I do, even if I do have to shave my legs. He likes to get pounded by the shower-massage to wake up and loosen up, he says, and generally come to life.
Quit snerking. 
Depends. Sometimes I go through moods of having separate products, other time I just use the “all-in-one” body soap/shampoo/conditioner. Right now I realized I accidently bought bubble bath and have been using it as body soap. But yeah when I have separate products and I feel like being extra groovy I’ll sometimes condition the pubes, armpit, and um, other areas. Not on anything resembling a regular basis though. In college when I died my hair blue I died my pubes to match. And I did end up being in a public shower that summer lol.
I learned this the hard way to much embarrassment and a trip to the hospital in my youth…