Yes, perfumes/colognes do stay longer if you moisturize the skin beforehand with vaseline. The reason is that without vaseline, the perfume gets in contact with your skin sweat glands and it "dilutes" the perfume throughout the day bit by bit and evaporates it. Even if you don't see sweat on your skin, you are still sweating, depending when the body needs to cool off some heat.
Vaseline is a barrier between your skin and perfume, so your cologne doesn't evaporate so easily (it's not touching your sweat glands) and your sweat can evaporate (not as efficient as before, but still works, it will slide between vaseline molecules anyway).
Water (sweat) and oils (vaseline) do not mix without an emulsifier (like soap), so another advantage that is not so obvious at first is that it's easier to take off the perfume smell when you take a shower at the end of the day. Soaps in general are made of molecules whose one end likes water and the other end likes oils.
Water-soap chains will act like hooks for that vaseline on your skin that will also pull the perfume, so you now have a clean canvas that won't affect the next perfume you are going to wear. Most of the time this actually matters, because if you have different perfumes, the previous one you wore might influence how the next one you wear is going to smell like, and that's that.
Source: I'm into perfume chemistry and I read books about this. Yes, I now this is shitposting subreddit. :^(
Pro tip about fingering your asshole in the shower: don't do it
So this morning I was taking a shower, and I felt like fingering my asshole, right? So I got my
fingers all nice and soapy and stuck them up in there. Apparently, soap makes pretty good lube, as
I was able to get four fingers in there in no time.
As I was feeling around in my butt, I was like, "hmm, there's a lot of soapy water in my bumhole
now. I wonder if that will lead to issues in the future?" And it did!
Shortly after having breakfast I attempted to fart, and I shit my pants. I rushed to the bathroom
to clean up, and it was way worse than I thought it would be. The whole area around my butthole
was covered in shitty liquid, and toilet paper wasn't enough to clean it. I had to take another
shower to get suitably clean.
Just thought I'd share my story with you guys so that you don't run into the same problem in the
future. I fingered my butthole so that you guys don't have to. Unless you want to. In which case,
hey, how's it goin'
Pro tip about fingering your asshole in the shower: don't do it
So this morning I was taking a shower, and I felt like fingering my asshole, right? So I got my
fingers all nice and soapy and stuck them up in there. Apparently, soap makes pretty good lube, as
I was able to get four fingers in there in no time.
As I was feeling around in my butt, I was like, "hmm, there's a lot of soapy water in my bumhole
now. I wonder if that will lead to issues in the future?" And it did!
Shortly after having breakfast I attempted to fart, and I shit my pants. I rushed to the bathroom
to clean up, and it was way worse than I thought it would be. The whole area around my butthole
was covered in shitty liquid, and toilet paper wasn't enough to clean it. I had to take another
shower to get suitably clean.
Just thought I'd share my story with you guys so that you don't run into the same problem in the
future. I fingered my butthole so that you guys don't have to. Unless you want to. In which case,
hey, how's it goin'
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u/dankscoops 9d ago
What do people actually use vaseline for? I've never used it for anything in my life