# What's your bathing style?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 15, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathing-style/395987 "2007-03-15T02:34:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathing-style/395987/61 "2007-03-19T21:48:06Z")

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1. Take off underwear
2. ???
3. Prof… Cleanliness!!

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**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathing-style/395987/62 "2007-03-19T22:39:50Z")

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1. Shower or bath?  
Shower.

2. Morning or evening?  
Morning.

3. Length?  
About 12 mins

4. Temperature?  
Just about to the the ‘ouch’ side of warm.

5. “Order of events”?  
Soap up armpits, soap up feet. Shave armpits. Rinse. Soap up nether-regions. Rinse. Soap up body- if legs need shaved, shave. Rinse. Shampoo. Rinse. Conditioner. Rinse. Final rinse. Out.

6. Bar soap or gel + loofah?  
Bar soap for my pits/feet.  
Private area soap for my privates.  
Shower gel for my body.

7. Lather, rinse? Or lather, rinse, repeat?  
Rarely repeat

8. Anything ‘non-standard’ habits?  
The shower is the only time ever that I brush my hair- I brush the conditioner through it.

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathing-style/395987/63 "2007-03-19T22:52:05Z")

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1. Shower
2. Morning (sometimes evening as well, but it depends on what I’ve done that day and what I’m doing that evening).
3. Maybe 10 minutes?
4. Starts out nice and hot, but thanks to the crappy water heater in my apartment is generally verging on cool by the time I’m done
5. Wash hair, put conditioner on hair. Soap onto washcloth, wash body, rinse conditioner out of hair
6. Bar soap
7. Just one lather - 2 rinses if you include the conditioner
8. Nope, nothing non standard that I know of.

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