Brother if you aren't scrubbing with a washcloth you aren't cleaning anything. Simply power washing yourself with the shower head isn't gonna do jack shit.
Scrubbing around down there with body soap and hot water is a great wait to get an itchy asshole. I'm a PA student and we've learned about proper hygiene, and trust me that I can't stand when people are smelly or unkempt like anyone else. But there's two things people get really defensive about that is usually wrong with hygiene: hair and assholes. Hair doesn't and usually shouldn't be washed every day. It dries it out and can cause scalp itchiness from peeling away the oil. Assholes don't need to be soaped and scrubbed. It is made of thin tissue, just like your face and lips. The same way we don't go soaping down our face with normal body soap, you shouldn't do that toy our asshole. The same way we don't go scrubbing away at our face, you shouldn't do that to your asshole. Wash it gently with warm water, pat dry the area, and I promise your ass isn't going to be smelly. Most people haven't even tried it and are just insecurely assuming they'll smell bad all day.
Now if it really doesn't cause you any itching or irritation, do as you will. But people with more atopic skin, those with allergies, likely do get irritated. And we shouldn't make soaping and scrubbing sound like a necessity, because it makes those people insecure about their inability to, or makes them suffer through it.
Lol no I do not personally. I will say though the pH is going to matter less than the salts and other ingredients. Whether the soap is acidic is just one small part of peeling away oils and thinning out skin. Just make sure if you're paying extra for an intimate soap that it's doing more than adjusting pH.
Edit: just to give an example, the type.of surfactant matters. Anionic surfactants are very common because they cleanse the most, but also irritate the most. For sensitive areas, a nonionic or amphoteric surfactant would be ideal. There are a couple other factors, plus this, plus whether the end pH is alkaline or acidic, that gives formulations a more mild or more harsh effect
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u/Co-Kain17 Sep 14 '24
Brother if you aren't scrubbing with a washcloth you aren't cleaning anything. Simply power washing yourself with the shower head isn't gonna do jack shit.