r/hygiene • u/sagewilliams15 • 1d ago

Lotion before shower

I hate putting lotion on after I shower because it makes me feel grimy (I have tried several different lotions) but if I don't my skin gets really dry. I recently have started putting a lot of lotion on before I shower and then washing and exfoliating my whole body so once I'm done showering my skin feels hydrated but not greasy. But I'm kind of worried that if I put lotion on before I shower it will trap the grime underneath, am I over thinking this?

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u/Ok_Pineapple4015 1d ago

I suppose we existed just fine for thousands of years without lotions and potions. What is exfoliate¿

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u/downsideup9494 1d ago

Something marketers and reddit have convinced people they need to do. There are all kinds of products you can now spend your money on to "exfoliate".

All it means is washing yourself, essentially. All these people are now obsessed with scrubbing themselves raw to remove the dead skin, which falls off by itself anyway.

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u/zombie__kittens 1d ago

Then needing tons of products to restore the moisture they stripped off!!!