Nacri’s “it’s better than nothing” shower tierlist.
Oftentimes the notion of a complete shower with all it entails is too daunting for whatever reason. This is the priority order I use to determine what to wash if I don’t have the spoons for the whole thing. This list does not include hair because that’s its own whole thing.
1. The washing implement. If that’s your hands, wash your hands, if it’s a cloth make sure it’s clean, if it’s a single-use wipe make sure it’s fresh.
2. Doctor’s orders & open wounds. Take the word of a medical professional over mine. Generally, your body is good at killing things it doesn’t like, but finds it harder when there’s a new hole in you. Clean gently but thoroughly. Remember that a tattoo is an open wound. Don’t wash open wounds that have sterile dressings you were told not to remove by a medical professional.
3. Mucous membranes. This is the holes you have normally, so your face around your mouth and nose, your genitals.
4. Crevices. Anywhere water can pool up or be held, so like armpits, buttcrack, underboob, fat rolls, that sort of place.
5. Anywhere itchy. If you aren’t washing much any accumulation of either dead skin or dirt will report as itchy, as well as recently healed wounds, and so following this directive will lead to to washing all of you often enough for general health.
6. The rest of you. At this point just have a shower. You’ve done the most important bits.
