If I try to brush my teeth in the morning with toothpaste or rinse with mouthwash I will barf. I cannot handle any of those flavors in the am; they trigger my gag reflex and I end up praying to the porcelain god. Slight morning breath > barf breath!
I brush at night as well as brush my mouth guard at night. I also clean my mouth guard every day after I get up.
No guy has yet to complain about my morning breath!
Have you ever tried just using baking soda and water?
If I try to brush my teeth in the morning with toothpaste or rinse with mouthwash I will barf. I cannot handle any of those flavors in the am; they trigger my gag reflex and I end up praying to the porcelain god. Slight morning breath > barf breath!
I brush at night as well as brush my mouth guard at night. I also clean my mouth guard every day after I get up.
No guy has yet to complain about my morning breath!
Get different flavor. You want to get those bacteria out, not just get rid of the bad breath.
If I try to brush my teeth in the morning with toothpaste or rinse with mouthwash I will barf. I cannot handle any of those flavors in the am; they trigger my gag reflex and I end up praying to the porcelain god. Slight morning breath > barf breath!
I brush at night as well as brush my mouth guard at night. I also clean my mouth guard every day after I get up.
No guy has yet to complain about my morning breath!
Have you ever tried just using baking soda and water?
water is ok and it is what I normally use. Baking soda also triggers the reflex. I can't even eat anything the first hour I get up. My mouth is not a morning person!
If I try to brush my teeth in the morning with toothpaste or rinse with mouthwash I will barf. I cannot handle any of those flavors in the am; they trigger my gag reflex and I end up praying to the porcelain god. Slight morning breath > barf breath!
I brush at night as well as brush my mouth guard at night. I also clean my mouth guard every day after I get up.
No guy has yet to complain about my morning breath!
Get different flavor. You want to get those bacteria out, not just get rid of the bad breath.
I've tried Mint, Cinnamon, Clove, Neem, Banana, Chocolate, Grape, Bubble Gum...it all does the same thing Although some of the flavors themselves would make most of us gag!!
Post by cattledogkisses on Oct 11, 2015 10:39:57 GMT -5
I'm more grossed out by the people who don't brush at night.
No wonder you have rancid morning breath. The residue of everything you ate the previous day has been marinating and decaying on your teeth all night long.
I am way late to this thread and haven't read the whole thing, but I need questions answered.
If you are a washcloth user, and you go and stay at someone's house, do you expect to receive a washcloth with the towels your host provides you?
Do you think your hosts are dirty and gross if they do not?
If they do give you washcloths (or you use washcloths and have house guests), what do you do with your washcloths after your shower?
I think it's nice to provide a wash cloth for guests. I know even some people who don't use them in the shower they use them to wash their face or wash up in the mornings. So I think it's a standard nice thing to provide in guest situations.
No I don't think people who don't use wash clothes are gross.
I wring out my washcloth and hang it on the towel bar like I would do at home.
I am way late to this thread and haven't read the whole thing, but I need questions answered.
If you are a washcloth user, and you go and stay at someone's house, do you expect to receive a washcloth with the towels your host provides you?
Do you think your hosts are dirty and gross if they do not?
If they do give you washcloths (or you use washcloths and have house guests), what do you do with your washcloths after your shower?
I think it's nice to provide a wash cloth for guests. I know even some people who don't use them in the shower they use them to wash their face or wash up in the mornings. So I think it's a standard nice thing to provide in guest situations.
No I don't think people who don't use wash clothes are gross.
I wring out my washcloth and hang it on the towel bar like I would do at home.
Hmm. I always provide regular and hand towels. I don't even know if I own washcloths. I probably have a couple.
Do most homes have enough towel bar space for washcloth hanging?
We have three towel bars in our only bathroom with a shower. I hang my towel on one, h uses the other, and the third is for guests. If there are two people staying, then h and I make do with a hook in the bedroom for one of ours. I don't know where a wet wash cloth could dry.
We have a lot of house guests, so now I'm paranoid about this.
I think it's nice to provide a wash cloth for guests. I know even some people who don't use them in the shower they use them to wash their face or wash up in the mornings. So I think it's a standard nice thing to provide in guest situations.
No I don't think people who don't use wash clothes are gross.
I wring out my washcloth and hang it on the towel bar like I would do at home.
Hmm. I always provide regular and hand towels. I don't even know if I own washcloths. I probably have a couple.
Do most homes have enough towel bar space for washcloth hanging?
We have three towel bars in our only bathroom with a shower. I hang my towel on one, h uses the other, and the third is for guests. If there are two people staying, then h and I make do with a hook in the bedroom for one of ours. I don't know where a wet wash cloth could dry.
We have a lot of house guests, so now I'm paranoid about this.
Lol, you're at least the 2nd person to bring up "where in the world would someone hang a wash cloth" and it's really not that complicated If there were no towel bar in the bathroom then I'd make due by hanging the towel in my bedroom on a hook, closet rack, etc and the wash cloth in the bathroom. But I've always been able to fit a wash cloth and towel on a small rack. If there are no racks, hooks, bars, etc in the whole house well I'm not sure what I'd do as I've never run in to that problem in the many places I've traveled.
I am way late to this thread and haven't read the whole thing, but I need questions answered.
If you are a washcloth user, and you go and stay at someone's house, do you expect to receive a washcloth with the towels your host provides you?
Do you think your hosts are dirty and gross if they do not? ETA how do you wash yourself if they don't?
If they do give you washcloths (or you use washcloths and have house guests), what do you do with your washcloths after your shower?
I have only run into this issue once. I was completely caught off guard. I now bring my own washcloth when I go there. It used to be a yearly trip, but I haven't been in a couple of years.
Prior to this incident, I had heard of people not using washcloths to bathe, but I assumed people would have them so they could at least wash their face, you know. But to not have any in your house, how is that possible?
I mean these are people I know well and I have never felt they stink or are dirty, but I tried to do the hand bathe thing and I just didn't feel clean. I ended up digging for the smallest thing I could find in their linen closet, which was a hand towel. So I guess they would be grossed out if they knew I washed my body and ass with their hand towel. But I didn't know what else to do.
LOL. I probably have a couple wash cloths somewhere in my house. We do not have a linen closet (house was built in the 1920s), so our towels are kept in a couple of baskets inside the closet that is in our office/spare bedroom, which also serves as the only coat closet in the house, the place we offer guests to hang things up, and other general storage. Because closet space is at a premium, we only keep in there what we use. There are boxes of older linens and stuff in our garage. So yeah, I imagine there's a washcloth somewhere on the premises.
I had no idea until this thread that adults used washcloths to wash themselves. I guess I never really thought about their purpose beyond bathing a kid.
I am way late to this thread and haven't read the whole thing, but I need questions answered.
If you are a washcloth user, and you go and stay at someone's house, do you expect to receive a washcloth with the towels your host provides you?
Do you think your hosts are dirty and gross if they do not? ETA how do you wash yourself if they don't?
If they do give you washcloths (or you use washcloths and have house guests), what do you do with your washcloths after your shower?
I answered this up thread, but if I'm a guest and not given a washcloth, I'll use a little corner of the towel. I don't need much. I never thought non-washcloth users were gross, just...weird, I guess.
Doesnt that FEEL wrong? My morning mouth feels like paste. The bacteria in there bking overnight in the closed moist spce and there is no inclination to clean that out before facing the world?
Even if I leave the house on a weekend morning just to drive through a McDonald's for a breakfast sandwich, and I don't shower because I'm just going in the car, I BRUSH MY TEETH. I would never leave my house without brushing my teeth!
I would never even leave my room (our bathroom is attached to our master bedroom) without brushing.
I am way late to this thread and haven't read the whole thing, but I need questions answered.
If you are a washcloth user, and you go and stay at someone's house, do you expect to receive a washcloth with the towels your host provides you?
Do you think your hosts are dirty and gross if they do not? ETA how do you wash yourself if they don't?
If they do give you washcloths (or you use washcloths and have house guests), what do you do with your washcloths after your shower?
Yes. I wouldn't think they were gross and dirty, I would think they forgot to give me a washcloth. This has never happened (which also led me realize that aside from my mother's friend in Nova Scotia who we stayed with a few times when I was younger, I've never stayed at the home of someone who wasn't black overnight). I hang it over a towel rack, bathtub, or shower rod (I.e., the same places where they hang their washcloths, because I've never stayed overnight with someone who doesn't use washcloths).
If you skip any toothbrushing, it should be the night one. Mouths in the morning are NOT GOOD, PEOPLE. You can't greet your day without brushed teeth!
I recently had a dentist say if you do only brush once a day, it's best if you do it at night.Â
But really, people should just brush more than once a day.Â
Im still floored that so many people wash themselves with just their hands. I'd never heard of that before.Â
That makes sense to me from a dental perspective, because I would think that you want to get out all the food from the entire day and not let it sit between your teeth and against your gums. Basically, I understand it for the same reason why I feel compelled to brush at night. But even brushing at night does not eliminate morning breath, which is why it's called morning breath. Keeping your mouth closed for several hours, not speaking, not drinking, does not do great things for one's breath. Hence, the reason I feel equally compelled to brush in the morning. I will say that thinking this through has helped me to understand why, for teeth and gum reasons, brushing at night is better. But poor SOs, spouses, coworkers, and everyone else who has to kiss/talk to the night only brushers throughout the day.
I recently had a dentist say if you do only brush once a day, it's best if you do it at night.
But really, people should just brush more than once a day.
Im still floored that so many people wash themselves with just their hands. I'd never heard of that before.
That makes sense to me from a dental perspective, because I would think that you want to get out all the food from the entire day and not let it sit between your teeth and against your gums. Basically, I understand it for the same reason why I feel compelled to brush at night. But even brushing at night does not eliminate morning breath, which is why it's called morning breath. Keeping your mouth closed for several hours, not speaking, not drinking, does not do great things for one's breath. Hence, the reason I feel equally compelled to brush in the morning. I will say that thinking this through has helped me to understand why, for teeth and gum reasons, brushing at night is better. But poor SOs, spouses, coworkers, and everyone else who has to kiss/talk to the night only brushers throughout the day.
That's why we should all brush at least twice a day, people!
Post by tacosforlife on Oct 11, 2015 16:40:28 GMT -5
No, I don't use a washcloth for my face. I just use my Cetaphil and my hands.
I could probably figure out a place to hang a washcloth, but it would seriously never dry. I can barely get out hand towel to dry, and we don't soak that. A wash cloth would get so grody. Our bathroom is tiny, in a corner, and has no windows. And one of the two towel racks is behind the door once you open the door. The air flow is TERRIBLE. And there are no washcloth bars in the shower itself.
Just FYI, I not only used a washcloth in the shower today because of this thread, but I bought a loofah and some other new bath products. Because I felt UNCLEAN all of a sudden!
I clean my ears with my hands, and with Q-tips (which I know are bad, but I loooooove them).
We get a lot of houseguests. Black people, even! Nobody has ever asked me for a wash cloth. I will find some and start including them in the guest towel stack now.
Post by EloiseWeenie on Oct 11, 2015 17:34:22 GMT -5
When people stay with us, I give each person a towel, hand towel, and wash cloth. I give my dad 2 wash cloths, because he HAS to have a separate butt cloth.
I clean my ears with my hands, and with Q-tips (which I know are bad, but I loooooove them).
We get a lot of houseguests. Black people, even! Nobody has ever asked me for a wash cloth. I will find some and start including them in the guest towel stack now.
I usually bring my own depending on where I'm going. Unless it was my BFF, I probably wouldn't ask for one as I hate asking for things.
What is wrong with people's ears that they require so much washing??
There are lots of nooks and crannies! I don't know. My ears feel gross without a good scrubbing. I feel like my kids ears get stinky if I don't make it a point to wash them. Maybe there is a stinky ear gene?
If I'm in the shower, I use the washcloth on my face and exfoliate (before I wash my ass, obviously). If I'm just at the sink, I use my hands. My face is delicate and can't handle too much scrubbing anyway - lol.
Post by lyssbobiss, Command, B613 on Oct 11, 2015 20:20:45 GMT -5
I saw a Chapelle's show skit where he did a wife swap between a black and white couple and the washcloth thing was mentioned there, which is how I knew it was any kind of Thing.
I wash my face with a clarisonic, so I'm pretty sure I'm not spreading butt germs there. Everything else I use bar soap, just with my hands mostly. Washcloths irritate my skin, and I'm definitely not about to use one to sand off my labia. It's just me alone in my shower, though. If I had someone else using it, I'd provide a washcloth and probably a different soap. You stay away from my sensitive skin Dove bar.
Babycakes uses a washcloth and hasn't complained yet. After I wash his butt, I usually wash it out several times with more soap. I promise we aren't gross around here.
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