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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Well, If you’d like a woman’s perspective- it will do nothing but strip your skin and hair like extra strength laundry soap. Soap in general is really good at removing oil and dirt but it doesn’t distinguish. That is why conditioner is needed, to put back what the shampoo took out. Mixing them together make them both ineffective. As for soap, most body washes may make your skin soft, or have a certain scent - but you still have to wear lotion after. It’s the body wash’s conditioner so to speak. Shampoo can be modified to be less damaging, be safe for color, skin conditions or treat dandruff.
That’s why 3-1 is a gimmick. You don’t have to have 113 products. Just a shampoo, a conditioner, any soap at all and a good lotion.
I’ll tack on that some folks need a separate face wash, as the harshness of regular soap can screw up sensitive/dry skin.
Still, fully agree. Any singular soap is going to be better than a hodge-podge “all-in-one” bottle of god knows what.
Or they need more gentle body wash.
Realistically, most face wash products just (typically "sensitive skin") body wash diluted enough to work in a foaming dispenser.
Pro tip: Check if your face wash manufacturer makes a body wash with the same ingredients. If so, it's pretty good odds you're paying 5x the price/oz for something that's diluted ~2:1 with plain water - so 15x the price of the actual cleaning product just to not have to dilute it yourself.
I agree with that, besides- if you use bar soap you HAVE to have a face wash if you catch my drift.
Using a soap without harsh chemicals would be best - same with conditioners.
Harsh chemicals like what? Your body is completely made up of harsh chemicals; so I’m not quite following what you mean.
Chemicals like sodium lauryl sulfate and other fatty acids with organosulfate head groups, which are much more powerful surfactants than the fatty acid sodium salts you get by reacting lye with a fat (like vegetable oil). "Traditional" soaps like that also contain glycerol (formed when the lye cleaves the glycerol backbone off of a triglyceride), which acts as a humectant moisturizer.
Technically, at least in the US, chemicals like SLS aren't legally classified as soap, and must be called a detergent. Which is why so many products are called things like "body wash" and "body bar", and you wont find the word "soap" on their packaging.
Yes, but it has been used for so long to make lather; people feel as though other products aren’t effective if they don’t lather.