# Guys and the poofy thing... A shower question. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 18, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532 "2003-04-18T12:54:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/21 "2003-04-18T14:55:16Z")
I have a yellow one I use on my face and my wife has an orange one for her feet… or is it yellow? No, it’s orang… wait… let me think… ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/22 "2003-04-18T15:16:37Z")
I too have a poofie thing. I got one this past winter when my skin was so dry it wasn’t even funny. I had to get one so that my tattoos wouldn’t fade, yeah that’s the reason. ---
**Author:** ![flybynight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@flybynight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flybynight)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/23 "2003-04-18T16:01:34Z")
Wasn’t there a commercial for some soap with a big football player daring anyone to call him girly for using the poofy thing? Well anyway, I love the poofy things (as my now ex-gf so educated me, a “loofa”), especially with shower gels. You don’t have to use nearly as much soap to get the same amount or length of “sudsiness” that you do with a washcloth (or a brick). I don’t think it’s girly, but then again I’ve never before admitted to its use, except with girls… 😉 Now that I know other guys use them too, well, conventions be damned, I’m coming out with it already… ---
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/24 "2003-04-18T16:01:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rhino’sHoney \* > \*\*try Dove Shower Cream with it btw… the best thing for dry skin ever !!! > \*\* very true… but if you thought that using a girly poofy thing was bad… then smelling like a girl all day may not be a good idea… but my gf liked it… so whatever… I smell like dove soap… ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/25 "2003-04-18T16:45:09Z")
I’m an avid supporter of the poofy thing. (I’m also a man). It works real well! I also use the liquid soap. It is a worlds better than a bar IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Sionach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Sionach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sionach)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/26 "2003-04-18T17:01:45Z")
**MercyStreet** - how did you convert the fiance?? The world must know! My SO won’t even use a washcloth. It’s a bar of Ivory and hands, and that’s it. He seems to like my patchouli/cinnamon soap, so hopefully I can get him to toss the Ivory, but I’d love to get him hooked on a poofy. BTW, a Poofy is VERY different from a Loofah. [These are Loofahs](http://www.ebubbles.com/ebubbles.filereader?3ea02fab0077542e271e424d361a061e+EN/products/0085&2D40&2D1) [These are Poofies](http://www.ebubbles.com/ebubbles.filereader?3ea02fab0077542e271e424d361a061e+EN/products/0013&2D11012&2D3) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/27 "2003-04-18T17:34:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flybynight \* > Wasn’t there a commercial for some soap with a big football player daring anyone to call him girly for using the poofy thing? Yes, and it planted the seed for one of my favorite Onion articles: “Congress to Iron Head, ‘What’s with this thingie?’” ---
**Author:** ![flybynight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@flybynight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flybynight)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/28 "2003-04-18T17:36:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sionach \* > > BTW, a Poofy is VERY different from a Loofah. > > 😉 So poofy is the correct term for what I use afterall. She lied to me. Why, that no good… just kidding 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/29 "2003-04-18T18:13:30Z")
Mr. winterhawk11 uses the poofy thing–his is on a stick and he loves it (along with his bath gel and his apricot scrub). In fact, he turned me on to all three things (poofy thing, bath gel, and apricot scrub) although my poofy thing isn’t on a stick. They’re just so cool and so much better than washcloths, it’s a shame that they have any sort of “feminine” stigma attached to them. Everyone should enjoy the poofy thing! For that matter, “poofy thing” is just fun to say. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/30 "2003-04-18T18:28:42Z")
Guys and the poofy thing in the shower… hmmm, I imagined myself in the showers at the gym. 😉 I don’t use a poofy thing. I _am_ a poofy thing. ---
**Author:** ![sycorob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@sycorob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sycorob)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/31 "2003-04-18T18:35:54Z")
We totally need to make poofy things gender-neutral objects. They rock! My girlfriend started me on them, and I’m a total convert. It takes less effort, I feel cleaner, and I feel like I’m buying less soap. If I may sound even more girly for a moment, I’m happy as hell not to be using bar soap any more. Scrub your tub for an hour one day, and the next day the friggin’ Dial has melted into a giant trail of sudsey poo! Blech. ---
**Author:** ![swannguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@swannguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swannguy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/32 "2003-04-18T18:36:04Z")
Damn - Scott Evil beat me to it… I’m a poof using the poofy… ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/33 "2003-04-18T18:39:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flybynight \* > \*\*So poofy is the correct term for what I use afterall. > > She lied to me. Why, that no good… just kidding 🙂 \*\* Close. According to the link, they’re po **u** f mesh sponges. Then again, [url=http://www.dollardays.com/catalog.asp?scid=494]this\*\* place calls them deluxe body scrubbers. The same site also has something else called a pouf, but it looks, well, more poofy than the body scrubbers. I don’t know. I just wonder what my wife is going to think when she sees several searches for bath sponges in the browser history. 🙂 I do use them, though. I was raised in a washcloth-only house, but once I escaped, I discovered the wonder of the pouf via my then-girlfriend (now wife). You can scrub your skin harder with the pouf, which I would think would be a manly thing. (“You still using that pansy-ass washcloth, Johnson? Damn it bro, get yourself a nylon body scrubber like a real man!”) The only thing they’re not good at is getting into small places, like the cracks between the sides of my nose and my face, which get very oily and develop tiny zits at near light speed. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/34 "2003-04-18T18:41:01Z")
Damn it. [Fixed](http://www.dollardays.com/catalog.asp?scid=494) body scrubbers link. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/35 "2003-04-18T18:47:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\*Yes, and it planted the seed for one of my favorite Onion articles: “Congress to Iron Head, ‘What’s with this thingie?’” \*\* Share? Please? I searched but did not find. Poufs rock my world. My ex’s grandmother once bought him one on a stick. I don’t think he ever used it. I shoulda stoled it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/36 "2003-04-18T18:47:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by merge \* > \*\*very true… but if you thought that using a girly poofy thing was bad… then smelling like a girl all day may not be a good idea… > > but my gf liked it… so whatever… I smell like dove soap… \*\* I use Dove soap all the time they make a great “free” bar that has no perfume, no dies, etc. I don’t know if they make a liquid like this or not. PS: I don’t use the poofy thing except when I can talk the misses into scrubbing my back. I find them too abrasive. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/37 "2003-04-18T18:48:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmackFu \* > \*\*When are you supposed to replace them? Mine doesn’t seem to wear out in any meaningful way. \*\* You will see, it will begin to fray and the little nylon fibers will begin to come apart. Depending on the vigor of scrubbing (hmmmmmmmmm !!!) yours may last for years. Mine is about 4 yrs old, and just now beginning to frizz a little. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/38 "2003-04-18T18:53:41Z")
I use the poofy thing. Just not on myself. 🙂 Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/39 "2003-04-18T19:09:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Searching For Truth \* > Share? Please? I searched but did not find. I don’t think it’s in their archive, though it may have been at one time. I think I printed it out when it was published several years ago, but I’m sure I have long since tossed it. Sorry to be a humor tease. The picture was great, too, with the Speaker of the House or whatever daintily holding up a poofie by it’s little string. Oh, hey, look what I found doing a Google search: [http://members.aol.com/skwishyber/iron.html](http://members.aol.com/skwishyber/iron.html) ---
**Author:** ![MercyStreet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@MercyStreet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MercyStreet)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532/40 "2003-04-18T19:42:43Z")
Sionach, The Future Mr. MercyStreet went for the poof after I did a demo to impress him with the suds potential. As for converting him to fruity bath products, that was easy, too: They were the only type available at my house, and he had no choice. More than four years into the romance, he still emerges from the bathroom from time to time and proclaims: “The poof has changed my life.” He even submits to Foot Exfoliation Friday, compliments of moi. And I secretly believe this is the kind of thing that an awful lot of men crave. Because he admitted it to a half-dozen friends over drinks one night, and all of them slammed down their beers, sat upright, and pressed him for details. He claims the discussion lasted a half-hour and was punctuated with a lot of, “Wow!” and “Now, THAT’S a woman!” (It’s unclear whether the “woman” reference was directed to The Future Mr. Mercy Street or to me.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-the-poofy-thing-a-shower-question/169532.md?page=3)