Scented Shower Gel

Grandmotherly women (who come in all ages, by the way) love scented bath products. I'm not sure what the physiological connection is between a grandmotherly personality and a nose that craves scented bath products, but there is one as surely as my cat will want to be on the other side of a closed door.

Which is all a lead-in to the news that I got a gift of a scented shower gel the other day. So I dutifully took it into my shower this morning, at which point I realized I have no idea what the heck a shower gel is. Is it soap? Because it sure doesn't say that anywhere. I looked all over the label, and there was no information on it's purpose. There were directions for usage - "Lather generously over wet skin" - but nothing that actually said what the point was.

I even looked at the ingredients, hoping to get a clue, but that was even less helpful than the label. The list of ingredients, long and chemical sounding, included some things that I could tell were scent-related or color-related, but nothing that looked like a soap or other cleaning agent. Or a moisturizer, or an anti-fungal, or anything else that seemed useful.

The only ingredient that I clearly recognized was "citric acid," but unless the shower gel is intended to strip your skin from your body, which seems unlikely, I still don't know why I was generously lavishing it on my skin.

Oh well. It was pretty and has a bow on the bottle. Maybe that's the point.