It is now conventional to apply conditioners to hair on head after a shower to replace the oils that has been depleted by shampooing.
What is the straight dope on conditioning armpit, chest and pubic hair? Is it necessary and part of your bathing ritual?
This does not strike .me as having a factual answer. Seems better suited for IMHO. And in that vein, i guess if you are that hairy of a dude, sure, it might be nice to have silky smooth chest or shoulder (or armpit) tufts. But in my personal experience, I’ve never heard of a single person using conditioner anywhere but on their head hair. But if you’re ever gonna to find a place where someone will chime in to beg to differ, it’s here at the Dope. 
I think that depends who you talk to. My guess is that most men don’t bother with conditioner, but a lot of women in developed countires probably do. At least for the hair on their heads.
While grooming (as in managing the length of) pubic hair has become more common in recent years, I’d be very surprised if even a portion of those who engage in such grooming behavior bother to use anything other than body soap for their body hair.
Conditioner is a lotion that enhances qualities that aren’t considered important or even realistic for body hair (luster, wholeness). It also fixes the effects of practices that we don’t do to body hair (brushing, dyeing, perms, heat treatment).
(Yes I know some people dye their armpit hair as a fashion statement, perhaps they even apply conditioner, but I don’t think anybody really cares if their armpit hair has split ends or lack of sheen).
Although not universal… I use a homemade vinegar-based rinse rather than a commercial conditioner to make sure I get all the shampoo out of my hair. And I use a very, very mild shampoo so it doesn’t strip all the natural oils out.
As already noted, what conditioner does isn’t considered important for body hair. I have known men who used conditioner on their beards, but I’ve never heard of anyone being concerned about anything below that.
I suspect that skin moisturizers and oils used to keep skin in good condition will take care of body hair conditioning needs as well.
I condition my beard.
Yeah, in my late 40s I maintained a ZZ-Top type beard and I applied conditioner. My current Santa type beard I do not condition and I notice no real difference.
I do not now and never have used conditioner on my head hair. I also have never used a moisturizer on my skin, having found that I’m plenty moist without it.
Ditto here. My current short beard just gets whatever facewash or shampoo that happens to get on it. When I had a long beard (maybe 6 inches or so), washing, conditioning, oiling and using other products was a big part of it. People would be surprised that I did all that work, but as I often explained ‘my beard is longer than your hair’, so yeah, I had to spend some time on it.
The industry for beard products is huge, but if you don’t have one and never think about it, you’re not likely to notice it.
Moved to IMHO.
Colibri
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I don’t have any chest hair. I use deodorant, so my armpit hair is going to be coated anyway. And nobody sees my pubic hair besides my wife, and I suppose people at the gym, and neither of them care if my pubic hair is bouncy and manageable.
I figure that, by the time they see my pubic hair, they have already formed their opinion of me, so there is no sense in wasting a lot of effort on presentation.
My mother told me to wear clean underwear in case I got into a traffic accident, but further grooming and styling wasn’t mentioned. So the emergency room docs will just have to deal with the situation if the color of my crotchal region isn’t stylish, which side it is parted on, etc.
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Shodan
You didn’t eat the crust from your sammiches?
Or drink the day old reheated coffee in the workshop pot?
My ex-MIL spent 15 years as an ER nurse and always suggesting going to the bathroom first. It’s much easier to rupture a full bladder in an accident than an empty one and apparently it’s not a pleasant injury.
Nobody conditions any sort of body hair; the only reason they fool with head hair or beards is that they’re on prominent display all the time. So people wash them, condition them and comb/brush them regularly.
I’ve never heard of anyone brushing/combing chest/back/crotch/leg hair, as it’s either not on common display or kind of incidental (chest/leg hair). So it stands to reason that if nobody’s combing/brushing a type of hair, it’s unlikely that they’d be conditioning it either.
Doesn’t Ron Jeremy get a full-body perm?
Disclosure: I worked on a major brand of anti-perspirant for several years; I know way too much about how underarms work. 
FWIW, for many (most?) people, underarm and pubic hair have a different texture than the hair on their heads (or their beards, for those so inclined).
This is because every hair follicle in your underarms and groin is part of an apocrine sweat gland, which makes them different from the hair follicles on the rest of your body. Apocrine sweat is of a different consistency than “eccrine sweat” (i.e., the sweat on the rest of your body); I’ve seen it referred to as a “pale milky goo,” and as having an oily consistency.
And, in addition, due to their locations on your body, as well as the fact that they are frequently enclosed by clothing, your underarms and groin tend to be a bit on the damp-ish side, anwyay.
Given all of that, I’m not sure that underarm or pubic hair really need additional moisturizing, even if you actually are concerned about its appearance or feel.
Could be, but he’s the only hairy person who spends a large part of their professional life with all that hair showing. Everyone else keeps it clothed or gets rid of it.
I’ve noticed that an extremely high percentage of actors in mainstream tv and movies shave their chests these days. Whether they go further I couldn’t say. But chests are always smooth.
Which makes it really odd to see in period pieces.
Dude, google the porn production company PutaLocura. Nuff said. Ron Jeremy didnt know the disgusting beast he was nursing.
Am I the only person who googled <conditioner for body hair>?
This for example. (Apologies for not cutting and quoting some of this nonsense - but I would have to allow cookies in order to do that.)
Oh yes they do.
But not me, I hasten to add.
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