Scrub your hands and bottom best
And treat with gentleness the rest.
        The hype of the skin moisturizers and their pitches of skin care have prompted me to attack the whole idea for 95% of people who have healthy skin since the claims  are under the guise of entirely cosmetic. The television ads undermine the natural and promote plasticity in human beings. I am not a dermatologist, but I do have common sense and know this :  that Mother Nature is never wrong and Ockham's Razor is usually right.
         The fetish of bathing or showering once or twice a day, robbing one's epidermis by scouring off Mother Nature's lipids, wax esters, glycerides, squalene, and sialomucin, all it's natural sebum oils, and then , when one has denuded their epidermis of this protective coating, adding some cream that smells like a flower, resists vitamin D , and is manufactured from the petroleum industry is an act of violation. The natural epidermal ooze is much more complex than I have elaborated,  but one came with it in abundance when we traversed the birth canal with our lipid covering of Vernix Caseosa. It accumulated in utero and protect us. We are still protected if we allow it to remain after a modest fashion.
            It's not that one should not bathe at all ; it is just that it is badly overdone. I guess it's OK to smell like a flower some of the time, but the erotic scent of the healthy hominid  will always trump the contrived scent of everyone smelling inhuman. Even your dog will celebrate your natural scent.
             The Dermatological scientists can't agree on the specific utility of all these waxy coatings we have been provided with, but human beings should still smell like people and retain their natural oils and waxes minus the dirt and grime. The coating is there for a reason. Not knowing the whole of the role they supply doesn't count. As I said , "Mother Nature is always right, and the correct answer according to William of Ockham is usually the simplest answer."
              Soap and water and a fresh towel is the sexy answer for the natural hominid then and now. Moreover everyone is going to look like they really look like!  That will be interesting. Let's not get plastered too often. Lets not stay in the sun endlessly without our natural oils and wax esters to protect our epidermis. Let's not worry about being white or wrinkled. Let's agree that the added sort of beauty may not be even skin deep.

 Mother Nature and Human Nature are really one--- indivisible. If we see ourselves as a food source amongst any other of our useful attributes, we can embrace all of the other similar ions and atoms we are related to, plant and animal and mineral that spend much of the time eating and being eaten, digested or absorbed by one another while perched on the food chain of life or death.
     If you believe you are at the top of the food chain, know that you are living food for the mosquito, tape worm, E. coli, the commensals, any number of hosts of micro-cellular organisms, and at the end, the Yew tree and all trees, the grass, vultures , carrion beetles and other members of the so-called lower orders that enjoy you in perpetuity, along with the maggots that often enjoy the gift we finally give.
     The so- called lower order of the food chain just completes the circle of life as we eventually embrace and enter the mineral world, when that erstwhile flesh and bone rises again in new vegetation. Therefore it is hard to call any feeder a lower order since we all are part of the wheel of life.
      There is no humiliation in this matter. How can there be any humiliation when we are one with Mother Nature and Human Nature? The sin in the garden of Eden was in believing that we were different from the garden and could eat freely from the Tree of Knowledge, thinking we were different from the tree. That is;  of another substance than the tree, rather than being content to linger for our  little while in the shade of The Tree of Life.