real confessions

[BeatChemist]

Whao SG!

That's crazy! I can totally understand the way you're describing it too... the nails getting caught. Tough to even think about it eh? Yikes.

Phobias are super interesting.

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My confession: I don't use soap in the shower. It sounds weird, but through research I discovered your body doesn't need soap to be clean, unless you already use soap. If you train your body to not get used to it, then all you need is running water in the shower, and to just act as you would with soap, just, without it. I still use shampoo, and still wash my hands with soap and water. There's no odor or anything, I don't smell any different then I or anyone else did using soap, and my skin doesn't dry out as easily either :P

Fun, nerdy fact: Soap doesn't actually clean, in the traditional sense. Soap molecules combine with water molecules, and this allows the water to get into small pores and places that it cannot get to on its own, but the soap isn't what's actually doing the cleaning. So you're really only running a risk of having more oils on your skin than dirt. If you think of a soap molecule as polar, then one end would attach to water, and the other would attach to oil, but without water, the soap is useless.


And I guess my confession is that I'm a nerd.

[PoppySquidJr]

Fun, nerdy fact: Soap doesn't actually clean, in the traditional sense. Soap molecules combine with water molecules, and this allows the water to get into small pores and places that it cannot get to on its own, but the soap isn't what's actually doing the cleaning. So you're really only running a risk of having more oils on your skin than dirt. If you think of a soap molecule as polar, then one end would attach to water, and the other would attach to oil, but without water, the soap is useless.


And I guess my confession is that I'm a nerd.

Well I don't understand that, then because I used to have a bad acne problem that when away when soap did, so you'd think that oil levels went down too

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Well I don't understand that, then because I used to have a bad acne problem that when away when soap did, so you'd think that oil levels went down too

Well acne isn't always caused by the natural body oils that soap removes. The acne you were experiencing my have been caused by the oils in the soap that you were using, or possibly by a reaction that your skin had to the soap.

[PoppySquidJr]

idk, either way things improved with the change :U
Also saves me money :P

[madsser]

I have ADHD. Can't be the only one here!

[unplannedman]

I have ADHD. Can't be the only one here!

Nope, I have it too

[BeatChemist]

I have ADHD. Can't be the only one here!

Pretty sure I'm just undiagnosed. Also pretty sure I just self medicate.