I’ve got to come clean.

[Bibbyman]

I admit,  during the dead of winter when I've not done much to get dirty I may skip a shower a night or maybe two in a week.  But come spring through fall,  I have to take a shower at least before I go to bed even if it's just to be kind to those around me or just for my own comfort.  These hot days in the middle of the summer I may take a couple of showers – especially if I have an appointment where I'm going to be in public.

But the other night I got out of the shower and was brushing down my hair when I noted that I had missed a big spot of black grease on the back side of my arm above my elbow.  I soaped up a wetted hand towel and went to work on it.  It came off as expected but as I kept working I found my forearms were covered with a patina of oily semi-transparent dirt.  It rolled off like tiny snakes you make when you were a kid out of modeling clay.  I scrubbed hard until first came up my fish-belly white skin and then that turned pink.  (I thought I was just getting a tan but most of it washed off!)

I had suspected all along that my shower with shampoo and soap just wasn't cutting it.  The next evening I took a hand towel in the shower with me and used it all over to exfoliate my skin.  I felt better and looked cleaner. 

I've been showering like this for about a week and feel like I'm doing a better job of getting clean.  But on these hot, dusty days I get just as dirty each day and it requires a lot of scrubbing to get and feel clean.

Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there a better way to get clean short of Ajax and steel wool?

[Mike_Barcaskey]

"exfoliate"

now there's a word you don't hear a sawyer use. next thing you know it's going to be scented candles and bubble baths 

[BBTom]

Every once in a while I take the Lava soap in the shower with me.  It does a good job of scouring. 

[Mike_Barcaskey]

Lava's great, or maybe Phels-Napa

Bibbyman take note, "scouring", a man's word   :D

[Dan_Shade]

use a brillo pad, like a real man!

[thurlow]

Every once in-a-while, one reads something that makes one think, "That's really more than I needed to know".    On such an occasion, we ...........in our family...........make the time-out sign, while screaming, "TMI, TMI!!!!!   ;D
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[Dave Shepard]

Maybe the questions should have been posed in a hypothetical manner. For instance, what if Elizabeth Hurley had been out in the sawmill all day, working up a sweat barking orders in a perfect British accent, tossing slabs, and tailing lumber for Bibby, and had trouble washing all that grime off. That would certainly make it a little more bearable. :D


Dave

[Radar67]

Here Bibby is getting in touch with his feminine side and all everyone else wants to do is sugar coat it and rag on him.  ;D ;D

Stew

[Bibbyman]

Keep it up you guys and I'll post pictures!   ;D

[thurlow]

Jeff,  Jeff, Tom !!!!  Hope one of y'all is monitoring this thread and has your finger poised over the delete button.   

[beenthere]

The stories that Mary could tell.......... : : : 8) 8)

[DanG]

Bibbster, I think you've waterlogged your skin.  That ain't a good thing to do, 'cause without your skin, your innards will just fall out on the ground.  What ya need ta do is just be patient and wait until Saturday night, like most normal folks do.  Come Saturday night, you can just git a grip on the grime just above yer eyebrows, right about where yer hat line is, and just peel it right down to yer toenails.  After that, alls ya got ta do is rinse the dust off and yer ready to go out and boogy down.

What a lot of folks don't realize these days, is that every time you wash you lose a bunch of skin cells.  Skin is something you just don't want to run out of.  It sounds like you're scrubbin' yerself into an early grave.  Back off to once a week, like the Good Lord intended, and you'll be healthier.  Mary will love ya for it.

[Bibbyman]

DanG!  I think you got something there.  I do feel like I'm getting smaller and smaller. 

Maybe I should not take a bath again for a year or so so my skin will build back up. 

[sharp edge]

Bib, if you take Dang advice go to the U.P. land they could use another big-foot up their.

Sounds like you have hard water, if thats the problem the big boxes have water softeners for around $400. Not to hard to put in or maintain. I get a lot of pine pitch on me, use home made soap to get it off.

SE

[asy]

Bibby.

I understand your hankering to be a clean and fresh guy, but, I'd just like to point out the danger of going too far...

PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THE SANDER INTO THE SHOWER.

OK?

asy :D

[Bibbyman]

Bibby.

I understand your hankering to be a clean and fresh guy, but, I'd just like to point out the danger of going too far...

PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THE SANDER INTO THE SHOWER.

OK?

asy :D

How about a cordless sander?  Maybe a power wire brush?   

[asy]

Uh, Bibby, It'd be a NO from me on those too, but maybe best ya check with Mary...

Maybe she'll give ya the "All Clear", but I suspect it'll depend on how much you've annoyed her that day...

asy :D

[rebocardo]

Ivory soap and a tube sock turned inside out. My wife doesn't like the way the face clothes look when I am finished with them.  :D   My arms usually get Napa waterless hand cleaner or orange go-jo.

[Bibbyman]

Ivory soap and a tube sock turned inside out. My wife doesn't like the way the face clothes look when I am finished with them.  :D   My arms usually get Napa waterless hand cleaner or orange go-jo.

Say! I like the tube sock idear!  I could not only scrub some of the krud off but I could get my socks clean too.

But then I'd have to take them off when I got in the shower.   smiley_goofy_face

[Carries-Mom]

around these parts, the stores sell sponges that come from the sponge docks in Tarpon Springs, Fl.  They are tan and look kind of like a tube.  They work real good to get the creepin' crud off yer skin...They cost a dollar or two...can't remember..    And no, a kitchen sponge doesn't have the same effect... :D :D ;D

[Fla._Deadheader]

Those be loofa,s ??? We youster grow them, remember ???

[DanG]

I'm just glad there are no pics with this thread.

[TexasTimbers]

I hate to tell you asy but when I get too much gorilla glue on y fingers, come Sunday-go-to-meetin, if all that black is still on them, I take belt sander and turn it upside down and grind off the skin. It works great as long as you don't get too carried away.

[submarinesailor]

kevjay,

Been there, done that-----------and gone too far----Ouch that hurts.

Bruce