Inb4 I don’t
I’m not asking if you do it, I’m asking people how you do it
Edit: sorry I forgot I posted this and came back to a bunch of answers. I have a torn something in my shoulder that no MRI has been able to find for 20 years so I can’t just reach it. I myself use a long cloth, but I don’t really like it so I was curious what other people did.
Also, I don’t wash my back every shower, but I do get pretty sweaty sometimes and feel like I just have to
Long ago I planted a colony of sentient microbes there, and bade them subdue the area and keep it free of vermin. They have tamed the wilderness and established a sophisticated, well ordered civilization. Although recently I have been feeling a lot warmer.
I get my partner to do it for me!
The only effective way is to find a spouse or partner who actually cares about you.
(now single) Old fart here.
Otherwise this is my current one (they’re all about 4/10 IMHO): Exfoliating Back Scrubber for… https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C1YZDFFM or something similar
Reach as far as I can, use trickle-down soapenomics to take care of the rest.
This is the one case where I think the trickledown effect works like a charm
Part of your back isn’t scrubbed.
Guess I’ll die then?
Eventually, yes.
Works for me. Nobody screamed at me for smelling at this spot yet.
I use my hands to wash my back. You?
Same - I can reach all parts. If I couldn’t, I’d grab a something on a stick.
Same here. Guess OP is not that flexible.
I dunno. I used to be flexible as hell, but was also too damn broad across the shoulders to get everywhere. That was even before I started lifting seriously; lifting just made the area I couldn’t reach bigger.
Somewhere around 16 I hit a spurt and suddenly couldn’t reach a zone between my shoulder blades. It was maybe hand sized. In my twenties, it was about an inch or two bigger, but I could still do all the stretches fully before lifting, and that included shoulder stretches where I could end up almost flat with my arms behind me.
Nowadays, I’m just old and stiff, and can’t scrub anything right on my back.
I strained my left arm and its cannot reach quite as far as my right now and even then im pretty sure I was more flexible in my youth. At one point I was able to grip my hands just barely diagnoly on my back but I knew some folks that could like grip their wrists behind their back. I have long arms to so its definately a lack of flexibility.
I have one bad shoulder
Understandable
I use a scrubbing brush with a long handle.
I got one of these things
Works pretty good and you can put some force down and really get that back nice and clean.
Whats it made of, and how do you clean it?
It’s made of silicone so it’s quite easy to clean.
Ah like my handso. I might buy one, thank you
I don’t. The mind-controlling alien parasite attached to my spine doesn’t let me when I try reaching for it…
You gotta take your time getting them used to it, a little splash here and there and then build up untill you can be in the shower for a good amount of time, mine loves it now.
Hi Londo. Hows Centauri Prime these days?
That’s not even a loofah
I can’t explain the marketing, they call all these things loofahs. Just a normal sponge at the end of mine lol. Mostly just get something on a stick and enjoy the same smug cleanliness.
Get a fairly stiff brush, it feels really good, like scratching an itch that you couldn’t reach :)
Might be a regional thing. Where I’m from, that is indeed a loofah. Synthetic, yes, but still called a loofah.
I bet that the number of people that think this is biodegradable because it’s a loofah is > 0
I made a comment and said lufa but meant loofah and meant this thing not on a stick.
Doesn’t the towel get wet?
A belt-like loofa that you hold on both ends and pull from side to side.
Yeah. First I ball it up and scrub the perimeter before unfurling it and scrubbing back and forth at different angles.
Right hand goes high, left hand goes low, then you criss cross apple sauce
Bend the arm the ouchholyfuckalmostreach way. Scrub. Then bend the arm the owfuckalmostjesuschrist way. Scrub again. Easy!
Maybe come over the shoulder from the top right th- ohpffftfortheloveofgodsoapinthemouth pfft pffffft… PFFFFFFFFT. Done
I just reach back there. I have these crazy things on my arm called “elbows”.
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I’ll be honest… Not very well. Pretty much squeeze my loofa at the top of my back so the suds run down, then rinse. No backne or any other issues though
I’m surprised how few answers actually include actually practical and helpful tools such as a bathing brush with a good long grip to reach just about everywhere. Is this a cultural thing? I swear I’ve seen them in British tv series at the very least, so I know for sure these are a common thing at least in the Nordics and the UK.
But I mean it’s the best. Really gets the old dead skin cells and other stuff off, and the blood flowing. The bristles are a bit rough, but that just makes it that much more pleasurable, you really feel it!
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These things, surely they are mostly everywhere?
My wife has one, I don’t like to use it, it’s too aggressive for me.
I can reach my back with my arms. To get the spot right between my shoulders I have to reach up and come down from the top with one arm, while using my other hand to grab my elbow and pull it to push my hand low enough to get it more effectively.
