Aspie hygiene

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I don't mind showers as much - -at least in my home, but I have had extreme issues when attempting to take showers at other people's homes and for the most part refuse to unless I have no other choice. I do have issues with things like washing my face and brushing my teeth -- I hate the way it feels and for the most part have to force myself to do so. I'm lucky to not have any acne issues (I rarely break out at all), but I know a few people who have had problems because of this.

I do NEED to use the same shampoo when I bath, along with having to bath (I rarely take showers because of how it feels) at the same time every day. It might be that I'm more than a little OCD, but I wash my hair twice a day most of the time as well...

I hate deodorant.

I wash my armpits with surgical scrub (the chlorhexidine kind) for three days in a row, then go back to ordinary soap. The surgical scrub kills off the BO-causing bacteria and it takes weeks for them to recolonize. Until they do, I don't get smelly. Then I repeat the process. I imagine it wouldn't last as long if I bathed less often.

I'm a smelly person. If I don't do this, no deodorant works very well (they just feel nasty and smell bad on top of my own rankness) and I have to wash-cloth bathe myself in the bathroom at work mid-day and put on more deodorant, and it's terrible. When I do it, I don't need deodorant.

The same scrub is supposedly good for acne, but it'd probably be a bad idea to wash your whole body with the stuff, or to use it all the time.

I'm going to second the whole sponge/towel bathing method. <_< Washing hair can easily be done in the sink separately, as well as face-washing and teeth brushing, of course. For the latter two I think it's just part of incorporating it into routine, and also not doing it all at once. I'm incredibly slow at such things-- it's much less stressful if I don't try to do everything at once but instead work in steps.

(Wash face, an hour later brush teeth instead of right after the other, etc.) I don't even eat full meals because of the non-singleness of it.

I don't have advice on deodorant. I've never had a problem with using it.