In which we discuss health & beauty aids, personal hygiene, and how cool rain-style showerheads are.
I really enjoyed my shower this morning. I don’t know why, usually I hate everything about morning. Maybe it was because I’d already had a cup of chai before I got in.
Anyway, I had many thoughts about bathing and bathing products. Not a single one of them is profound.
For instance: I love the bath poof and I love liquid soap. I have no idea how people got decent lather back in the dark ages of washcloths and bar soap.
I brush my teeth in the shower because that way I can drool all I want and it makes no difference. I keep my tongue scraper in the shower, too. I adore my tongue scraper. A mouth isn’t truly clean until all that white crap has been scraped off the tongue in the morning.
I push my cuticles back in the shower, while they’re soft. This is why I have perfect cuticles the vast majority of the time.
I am constitutionally incapable of using the same shampoo three times in a row. I always have at least three different brands available to choose from. I have a short shampoo attention span.
Ears are difficult to clean.
A large hot water heater is a Very Good Thing.
A giant rain-style showerhead is also quite pleasant. (Don’t be dirty, it’s not removable or anything. It’s just nice to stand under. I didn’t insist on a removable showerhead because the one upstairs was. But then the upstairs bathing opportunities went the way of cracked pipes, and now there are no removable showerheads in my house. So I have to take care of that particular personal ritual manually, as it were.)
I have recently noticed that I seem to have a hard time using the last of anything; I have multiple bottles of product with one or two uses left. This morning I deliberately emptied a bottle of shampoo, a bottle of conditioner, and a bottle of coconut-lime-verbena liquid body soap.
Post-shower application of product is a difficult territory for me. I have to put my contacts in first, to avoid getting anything greasy on them. But often by the time I have my contacts in I’ve forgotten that I needed to moisurize or that I wanted to put some crap in my hair. Also, I prefer to moisturize immediately, while the skin is still damp, but the contact lens application ritual screws that plan all to hell. If I weren’t a big baby, I’d get RK. Er, if I were a non-big baby with two grand lying around I’d get RK, rather.
I love Neutrogena body oil. Mmm.
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I clean my ears religiously. I might go a day without washing my hair or my feet, but I’ll be damned if I let my ears go untouched.
Especially since Gremlin over here chews on them all the time.
You two are the cutest fags ever! -m
I shave with Neutrogena body oil and I have like at least three bottles of shampoo going at the same time. I am sure that this would drive my Mother crazy, she is a “finish what’s open first type” lady. I highly recommend the new Neutrogena Fresh Shower shower gel.
Ooh! I’ll get some. -m
What is it about not wearing contacts in the shower?
Before moving in with Chris, I never gave it a second thought (mainly, I think, because I like to be able to see what I’m shaving).
However, he insists (as do others, as I have come to understand) that the shower water drys them out, I’ve never had this problem.
I wear hard lenses, so I can and do wear them in water. Hell, I swim with them in. But this was a morning shower and I just hadn’t put them in yet. -m
I don’t have fussy rituals or spend inordinate amounts of time in the shower, but I do find that is where I seem to have my best ideas and thoughts. Something about the water running over you seems to cleanse the brain and then it sort of fires back up again at full force.
I wonder if my boss will pay for a small standing shower in my office? I’d be far more creative.
But do they want that? *giggle* -m
I agree. It’s a good idea to take a shower every now and again.
But for realz… cuticles… I’m such a pussy that I can’t push my cuticles back; it freaks me out, man!
The alternative, though, is broken, bleeding, hangnailed cuticles. Which is worse, if you ask me! -m
RK? RK? I have no idea what that is … some sort of heterocode?
I *heart* hAir products though … probably b/c i only have so many years left to use them… minty shampoo and conditioner rocks my world.
ps. why is typing so difficult when you’re slightly intoximacated?
RK = radial keratotomy. And I don’t know. *hehe* -m
i only use one shampoo, the cheap no-name type of apple cider vinegar stuff, and one conditioner, hydrating curls by someone (can’t remember who) because if i change i tend to get zits on my scalp. since i like to avoid them, i avoid changing stuff. i also use ivory “snow” body wash. I want to get the new l’oriel (or is it olay?) body in-shower conditioner. it works like hair conditioner but it’s for your body instead. when the student loans come in i’m getting me some. which reminds me, it’s time to rip out my leg hairs again.
Speaking of which, I think I’m gonna get some Nair. Better living thru chemistry! -m
And now, I shall stalk you back.
I, too, love the puff and liquid soap… and I rarely finish a whole bottle of shampoo/conditioner. When I buy a new one, I want to start using it NOW, so I don’t bother finishing the old one. I stash it under the bathroom sink, where it stays for ages and ages. Then I’ll get a wild hair about cleaning (thank God THOSE are rare) and throw away everything under the sink.
Let the mutual stalking continue! Yay! And I don’t have an under the sink area, so all my bottles just clutter up the shower. -m
dumb ol’ palmers cocca butter oil? $8 and makes you smell like a cookie! and then there’s weleda rose body oil. $22 but hot damn a girl feels foxy.
my problem is that in the summer both of those attract bugs and bees. bugs and bees love me, which is sweet and all, but they bite in a not-fun way.
LOVE Weleda stuff. Mmm. -m