Should I Be This Excited About Soap?
Mar. 31st, 2009 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsSo. I don't think I'm ever going to go back to using regular body wash, if I can help it.
Yes, I know it's only been three days using my soap bars. I don't care. I am that fucking impressed. Really.
As part of my body's ongoing self-destruct plan, I've been dealing with chronic eczema for...I don't even know how long. At least three years, maybe four or five. It's not a huge deal - it's not itchy or painful or anything except just sort of there, but it's still a pain in the ass and I hate it. Mostly I guess it just makes me feel gross and unattractive - it's been a real fear of mine for a long time that my first time with a guy he would be disgusted with me that it would completely end things. And maybe some of that is just ingrained social conditioning that the only attractive people are the ones who conform perfectly to an arbitrary and impossible standard of physical beauty, but that doesn't really change the way I feel. And in the past however many years, I have done everything you could think of and then some to try to fix this except maybe get a knife and peel a big chunk of my skin off.
So it is a BIG FUCKING DEAL to me that in the THREE GODDAMN DAYS since I started using these natural soap bars, my skin has improved more than it has in the last three years. Like, it's not an instant fix-everything magic soap, but it's pretty damn awesome. For the first time, I'm starting to think I might actually sometime in the near future have skin that does make me feel like Kamandi the Lizard Girl. That is kind of awesome!
(also it smells really good :D)
I was also going to post about my Not-A-Diet, but meh, that can wait for another day.
Yes, I know it's only been three days using my soap bars. I don't care. I am that fucking impressed. Really.
As part of my body's ongoing self-destruct plan, I've been dealing with chronic eczema for...I don't even know how long. At least three years, maybe four or five. It's not a huge deal - it's not itchy or painful or anything except just sort of there, but it's still a pain in the ass and I hate it. Mostly I guess it just makes me feel gross and unattractive - it's been a real fear of mine for a long time that my first time with a guy he would be disgusted with me that it would completely end things. And maybe some of that is just ingrained social conditioning that the only attractive people are the ones who conform perfectly to an arbitrary and impossible standard of physical beauty, but that doesn't really change the way I feel. And in the past however many years, I have done everything you could think of and then some to try to fix this except maybe get a knife and peel a big chunk of my skin off.
So it is a BIG FUCKING DEAL to me that in the THREE GODDAMN DAYS since I started using these natural soap bars, my skin has improved more than it has in the last three years. Like, it's not an instant fix-everything magic soap, but it's pretty damn awesome. For the first time, I'm starting to think I might actually sometime in the near future have skin that does make me feel like Kamandi the Lizard Girl. That is kind of awesome!
(also it smells really good :D)
I was also going to post about my Not-A-Diet, but meh, that can wait for another day.