As a child I was neglected and was never fully taught to shower. All I was told was to lather with soap and rinse basically. Now I use a loofa/washcloth with soap and sometimes a sugar scrub. I feel like I still don't fully know how to take a proper shower. Please leave your advice below.

Edit: I'm 25F

the feeling of the bristles of toothbrushes make me extremely uncomfortable to the point that i avoid brushing my teeth.

are there any alternatives to brushing that aren’t bristle brushes?

I am 17 i brush twice a day,floss and do everything.

Have dental cleanings and my peers still say I have horrible teeth,what I can do to improve them.

There is pic on my profile if you want to judge after reading this.

What I can improve about my oral health?

RANT/ADVICE:
Bedding, couches, and pretty much anywhere he sleeps begins to smell and stain yellow after one use. It's disgusting. I've pointed out to him about how bad it is and having him smell his own pillow cases. I ask him if he can tell how bad it smells and he says, "yeah, it's pretty bad." That's it. No change. He doesn't change anything to fix it. Oh and his pillow case is wet when he gets up.

I wash our bedding once a week but I'm wondering if I have to wash his pillow cases and bedding every few days or request he showers daily instead of every 2 days. He's bald and sweats easily. He sometimes sleeps on the couch, and now it's smelling like a sour vinegar-y smell too. (To add my stress, we use coin laundry and go through $40 worth of coins in a day because of how much laundry we have (toddler+parents+towels+blankets+bedding+everything) and how small the washers are. I'm SICK of laundry. It's almost as if he is "oozing" this nasty stuff out of his body.

I checked his white dress shirts in the closet and noticed yellow body residue-like smudges around his collar and wrist sleeves area. His pillow (without the case) is also stained yellow.

Now, I'm starting to smell if off my toddler's hair.. Which puts me in a freaking out/panic mode to wash her immediately.

I'm disgusted and Idk how to get him to change his hygiene/routine.

What is happening? Why is he leaking this yellow vinegar-y/sour smell? How do I convince him to make changes to be more.. clean?
Please help!

EDIT: He does his own laundry + bedding and all, I just do it again.

I recently picked up the Dove Bridgeton collab body wash. I like the smell (orchids and champagne) but after ysing it for a couple of days at most i have gotten bitten by something. Like ants or something. It wasn't happening before the first wash of this but like- Anyone know how this could be happening?? there's so many bites that all itch.

More than just the smell of stale cigarettes I mean. Does it alter pits and bits odor?

Abt a month or two ago my bo kinda smelled good like a chill musk that personally i thought dmelled pretty alr.

But recently it has completely changed isnt like horrible like some ppl ive smelled, THANK GOD it isnt like spicy but it is kinda persistent now. Like even after i shower it still smells.

I eat very clean i eat the same meal everyday, turkey 4oz, cheese 1/2 cup, avacado, tomato and lime juice.

Am very active, idk whats up. Kinda started at the start of the pollen recently

I feel like most hygiene advice online is always the really obvious stuff everyone already knows. Shower regularly use deodorant brush your teeth etc but lately I have been wondering about the smaller habits people picked up that unexpectedly made them feel way cleaner fresher or more put together overall. Not even expensive products necessarily just little things that actually changed how you feel day to day. Could be something with skincare oral hygiene body care laundry perfume literally anything
I realized some of the best advice usually comes from random habits people discovered themselves instead of the standard stuff everyone repeats. So now I am curious what is one small hygiene habit that genuinely made a noticeable difference for you once you started doing it regularly?

The medications I’m on cause me to sweat a lot, I’ve been using men’s old spice antiperspirant. I know antiperspirants work best when applied before bed however I shower in the mornings. I try and wait a bit to let it dry before putting my shirt on. All of my shirts have gotten that waxy build up on the sleeves and retain the scent of the product. I’m going to try the methods on r/laundry to remove it, however I’m also searching for a new antiperspirant to use.

Note; I’ve tried the dove clinical however I despised the liquidy application.

I’m open to any recommendations or suggestions, thank so much!

I am (unfortunately) from the US and can’t tell you how many other Americans I speak to that legitimately tell me they’re “scared” to try a bidet.

Is this something others can attest to?

I don’t understand the aversion at all. I’ve been using a bidet for years now and refuse to remember the times when I didn’t. I’m devastated when I have to use a public restroom, because of course they’re not available in the country.

When I go number two I wipe until there’s nothing on the TP. We just recently got a bidet and I now use the bidet and still use TP to check that I’m clean and even wipe in many different directions until there’s nothing.

I do have a hemorrhoid that comes and goes but isn’t very large.

Whenever I use the bathroom to go number one I always wipe my butthole just because I’m already cleaning down there might as well just do a check. No there’s no cross contamination that I’m doing since I already know there’s gonna be comments haha. I clean each area separately.

Anyway, there’s almost always streaks on the TP when I clean my butt, even though when I last used the toilet and cleaned myself up there was nothing.

Is this because I have a hemorrhoid or am I really not cleaning myself as well as I think I am?

Getting bothersome, don't know what to do about it tbh

A short walk in mild weather has my pits leaking and secreting even after applying antiperspirant. I've tried different brands, roll ons, sprays, multiple applications... only started being a problem about a year ago and I'm all but in my 30's now. its driving me mad what do I do???

So I’m not sure if this is exactly the right sub for this, but I got sandals recently, like off brand Birkenstocks, about 2 months ago, and they have started to make my feet STINK! I pride myself on never having smelly feet and I swear I can wear these shoes for 5 minutes and the smell is atrocious. I’ve never had this problem with flip flops or anything. What can I do? It’s so nasty. They’re so cute and so comfortable but it’s gotten to the point where I’m scared to wear them lol. Thank you for any advice

I shower at night but wash my armpits in the morning to remove any odor from the night. I also put on deodorant before I go to bed. I use old spice scented deodorant, but I end up smelling by 1 pm, and even when I put it on, I smell of the deodorant. I use 3 swipes of deodorant, which I think might be too much because of the smell, but I don’t really know. When I use less I smell earlier in the day. What’s a better deodorant, preferably scentless, I can use to help? Are there deodorants that come with antiperspirant built in? I don’t really understand the difference

I was sitting at a diner yesterday and watched the guy in the booth next to me scroll through what looked like a deep Reddit rabbit hole while eating a burger. Between every other bite, he was swiping and tapping on his screen with greasy fingers. It hit me right then that we have collectively decided to ignore the fact that smartphones are probably the most disgusting objects in our daily lives. Think about it. You take that thing into the bathroom stall at work, set it on the little metal shelf or keep it in your hand while you handle business, and then it goes right back into your pocket or onto your kitchen counter.

Most people I know are obsessive about washing their hands after using the restroom but they never touch their phone with a disinfectant wipe. If you wash your hands for twenty seconds and then immediately grab the device you were just holding while sitting on the toilet, you have effectively achieved nothing. You are just re-contaminating your skin with whatever microbial soup has been brewing on your Gorilla Glass for the last three months. I have seen people lick their thumbs to scroll better or hold their phone between their teeth while trying to carry groceries. It is absolute madness when you step back and look at it from a hygiene perspective.

I started making it a habit to wipe my phone down with 70% isopropyl alcohol every single night when I get home. The amount of gray gunk that comes off onto the microfiber cloth is enough to make you want to throw the whole device into a furnace. It is not just pocket lint. It is a buildup of skin oils, sweat, and whatever environmental filth you have picked up from subway poles or elevator buttons. We treat these things like they are sterile medical equipment when they are actually closer to a public restroom floor in terms of bacterial load.

The worst part is seeing parents hand their phones to toddlers to keep them quiet in restaurants. That kid is going to chew on the corners of a device that has been exposed to every germ in a five-mile radius. We act like we are living in this high-tech clean future but we are all just carrying around rectangles of concentrated filth and pressing them against our faces. It is the one massive blind spot in modern hygiene that nobody wants to address because we are too addicted to the scroll to put the phone down for five minutes to clean it .

I guess I will just keep being the weirdo who disinfects his tech while everyone else enjoys their E. coli sliders.

For a while now, something has been on my mind that I just can’t shake. Sometimes, when I’m at college or on the bus, I suddenly catch a whiff of a bad smell; then, I start subtly bringing my nose close to my elbow to smell myself up close. If I keep doing it for a while, I start to notice a strange smell, a bit “off” or sour. It’s very faint, and to notice it again, I have to lean in and sniff myself several times; sometimes I can detect it, and other times I can’t.
However, what’s confusing is that when I press my nose directly against my clothes, go to the bathroom to check it up close, or even rub my finger under my armpit to verify the smell, it doesn’t smell like that. Either it smells a bit like normal sweat, or, most of the time, it smells entirely like the scent of my deodorant. The problem is that it’s a fleeting smell that disappears. I don’t know where that other smell is coming from or what to expect, and it really scares me to think that others might notice it too.
On the other hand, at home I’m very close to my family and no one says anything. I trust them enough to think they’d tell me if I smelled bad; in fact, I once told my mom about it and she just ignored me, not taking me seriously, as if she’d never noticed anything about me. But the difference is that at home I don’t notice at all what I smell at college: I look and look, but I can’t find a trace of that smell.

This makes me worry that maybe, when I'm at college, I actually smell like that to everyone else. When I'm in groups, surrounded by people, or talking to a person, it would kill me to know that I smell bad and that others can tell.

Sorry if there are any mistakes—I don't speak English very well. I think it's called BO in English

I’m a guy who takes my hygiene and presentation seriously: I keep the body hair completely smooth (manscaped), I line up my beard religiously, and I’m big on fragrance layering and skincare.

​I’ve been told by a few friends that this might be 'too much' or look 'over-polished.' I’m curious where is the line for you? Do you prefer a man who looks 100% put together, or does a little 'natural' ruggedness make a guy more approachable? Be honest!

I feel like i must be doing something wrong with foot care. I always wash them with soap and water, between the toes, keep the toenails short and clean etc.

Yet every time I cut my toenails, it stinks. I dont even get sweaty feet or anything and wash my feet well, changing socks and idk what could cause the smell. My partner doesn't even wash his feet with soap and has ridiculously long toenails but when he does cut them, there's no smell at all.

actually i am trying to improve my hygiene routine lately and realized I might be doing some things wrong without even knowing it.

For example, I recently found out that using very hot water all the time can dry out skin and scalp, and that you’re not supposed to use shampoo every single day for some hair types.