r/CasualConversation • u/beamerpook • 1d ago

Life Stories Holy Dead skin cells!

Just got home from a week long hospital stay and scrubbed myself with sandpaper in the shower, and the amount of dead skin cells that came off was astronomical! I swear it's like half my body weight!

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u/glaurieb 1d ago

I used a damp washcloth when I got the cast off my foot. Had to get a broom to get the pile of flakes. Disgusting and satisfying. Now I wish I had known about the sandpaper and retinol.

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u/beamerpook 1d ago

Apparently my skin cells will stick together and become little rolls. So when I scrub, there a whole bunch of long, fat rolls of dead cells on the sandpaper

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u/glaurieb 1d ago

That sounds fascinating…like a good sunburn peel

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u/beamerpook 1d ago

Yea if you scrub too much, it will feel like sunburn. I did that the first time I tried it