Okay. No poufs in my shower! I might catch something. :eek:
I’m NOT using washcloths. I’m sorry, that seems quite disgusting to me…this smelly, wet washcloth hanging in my shower. And it really doesn’t wash as well.
I end up poufing maybe once or twice a week, and use soap the rest of the time. You’ve got to be kidding if you’re telling me that the soap bar holds more bacteria than a waschloth! I wash my hair every day, it’s curly but not thick, but I can’t stand the oily feeling.
Anyway. Me and my germs like each other. We’re quite happy, thank you.
Fo’ real! I second that.
trublmakr, beyond what you’ve heard the doctors say whilst working at their office, can you provide us with any cites or supporting documentation? Because I am wondering why, if poufs are such a big public health hazard, we haven’t heard more about it. Is there a conspirace by the multi-billion dollar pouf and liquid soap industry to keep these dirty little secrets from the public? And if so many people use poufs, why aren’t we seeing more rashy, leperous, scabby and blemishy people waking around?
I’ve used poufs for as long as I can remember them existing, and I don’t run them through the washer, and I have never ever had any skin issues. In fact, because of the exfoliating action, my skin gets flaky, bumpy and ingrown hairs when I don’t use the pouf.
Well, having your wife catch you with a pouf in your shower would be embarrassing for both your wife and the pouf.
Bacteria living on a bar of soap? That seems like bullshit to me, so forgive me if I don’t just take that one at face value. I know they make special “anti-bacterial” soap, but I always figured that was just a marketing ploy. Seems that the harsh pH that comes with being a bar of soap would play havoc with most germs.
But, I could be wrong, just ask my wife.
I did so.
Here’s a question. Besides making your own, is there even any place that sells normal, non-anti-bacterial soap? Just curious if any actually exist.
Regular bar soap doesn’t seem to be too hard to find; of liquid hand soaps, the only brand I’ve been able to find is Ivory, and not all stores carry it. SO frustrating. I’ve found liquid Ivory at Walgreen’s.
Might also consider changing your bedding more often. If you do it every other week, change to every week. If you do it every month, change to twice a month. If you do it once a year, you probably have the opposite problem, in that you need to clamp the sheets down to keep them from crawling away on their own. 
Another one here with baby fine hair. What amuses me is when people tell me that if I stop washing my hair every day, and let it go, eventually it will “balance out”, and I’ll only NEED to wash it once a week or whatever.
Yeah, but until it “balances out”, I’ve got a mop of slimy, putrid seaweed growing out of my head. No thanks-I’ll shampoo daily.
I’m flattered.
I didn’t see this mentioned yet, and it would seem like a total no-brainer, but if you use a pouf, or a loofah or sponge or anything like it in the shower, and you get a yeast infection, toss the old scrubbie and get a new one, because as soon as you get over the infection, you’ll just give it back to yourself. This is also a good reason to never ever use someone else’s scrubbie at all.
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That’s what I use to clean the kitchen drain…
There’s that. Still, I hope you notice I’m not lining up alongside the “boil 'em and scrub 'em with bleach” crowd. That’s just excessive, if not actually paranoid.
The wives, or the poofs?
Ugh, yes. Never mind bacteria, yeast are a total bitch to get rid of, especially if you have a yeast infection of the nipples. In such cases, you have to boil everything that touches your nipples or your baby’s mouth for twenty minutes each day, for two weeks. Anything that can’t be boiled, like bras and clothing, has to be washed in hot soapy water, dried on high heat, and preferably hung out in strong sunshine. And that’s all in *addition * to medicinal treatment.
Ironically, the reason you get such infections is often the killing of the bacteria on your skin that would normally compete with the yeast and keep their growth in check.
[finance weenie mode]
Back to the important point, which is the continual miscalculation of profit in this thread.
Profit Dollars are defined as Revenue minus Cost. For our Ivory soap, that is $1.00 - $0.01 = $0.99 Profit per bar.
Profit percentage is Profit Dollars divided by Revenue, $0.99 / $1.00 = 99% Profit
Profit percentage is NOT the same as a cost uplift or markup, which for this example would be 9,900%.
[/finance weenie mode]
I doubt your average puff is half as dirty as your average remote control or computer keyboard. We all change the channel or type something, then pick up a potato chip, or wipe our noses, scratch our eyes, whatever. Germs are everywhere, a completely soaped up puff is way down on my list of things to worry about. They are soaped up and rinsed every day, there’s only so much dirt and germs that a nylon mesh can hold when cleaned that often. Loofah’s are a different story, I could see those puppies grabbing onto germs and being a good breeding ground.
I’m just falling further and further behind here. I haven’t even worked out who these lame but important shower poufs are that the OP found it necessary to pit.
wanders off mumbling confusedly
They’re those puffy little wads of nylon mesh with a string handle that they sell in the soap and body wash aisle. I’m sure you’ve seen them, even if you’ve never really noticed them. They don’t really have a proper name, so people usually call them shower poufs or puffs, or “those little scrubby thingies.”
“But Ironhead! What’s with this THINGY?”