Suds or no suds?

Soap is obviously one of the favourite, if not the favourite, solution choices for enemas. Lots of people describe having sudsy solutions.

Does it make a difference if you have suds or not? I usually end up with a milky solution but no suds because I only have an open top bag and can't shake it to create suds. What difference to my enemas would soap suds make?

The phrase soap suds seems to be misunderstood. A soap suds enema just means a soap and water enema, i.e. soap dissolved in water. If you agitate the solution you will get bubbles or foam on top, but this isn’t necessary at all. Bubbles are essentially air and add nothing to the enema experience. It wouldn’t be easy to get them to pass through the hose anyway.

I AM a believer in soapy water enemas. Even with a water softening system the water around here still has a fairly high mineral content. After a bar of soap has sat in water several days there is not much "Suds" anyway. So for me a so-called soapsuds enema is really just a very soapy water enema!!

Cool. I thought that was probably the case but wanted to check I wasn't missing out on anything! Thanks.

I need soapy enemas in order to have a good clean out. Suds are just air bubbles and do nothing in the enema.

Rubbermark, I raised this question in another enema thread a few months ago. Sometimes I'm a stickler about words, and after seeing so many references to soapsuds enemas, I raised the question of what the point of the suds was. The responses I got were mostly about the role of the soap, not the suds.

So here's the deal, many people call a soapy enema a soapsuds enema. They aren't trying to mislead us, it is just what they call it. The suds is irrelevant. When I pushed the question how you force the suds down the hose and out the nozzle, the response was, you don't.

So there my friend is what I have learned about the subject. Enjoy with a soap of your choice.

The suds on top will never make it into your rectum. The soapy water drains into you because gravity drains it through the hose. When the water is gone, the bubbles stay in the bag. I suppose you could get soapsuds into you if you partially filled a bulb with soapy water, shook it, then injected the water/bubbles mizture. The result would be a crampy SSE. Like they said: SSE simply refers to a soapy solution. Maybe the name comes from the fact that bubbles tend to flow over the top of the bag if it is filled with soapy water.

Let’s try and settle this odd question about soap suds. Today, to most people, the word suds means foam or froth. But it hasn’t always done so. This from the Shorter Oxford article on sud:

2a. In pl. Froth which collects on the top of soapy water in which things are washed. Also, soapy water for washing. M16. b. A soap solution, rare. M19

The second part of definition 2a, and definition 2b, document the use of suds to mean a soap solution. Of course, a soap solution, particularly if used for washing, very readily forms froth, so the two are closely associated.

It seems — though the wise clerks of Oxenford do not say so — that the ‘soapy solution’ meaning of soap suds, although rare today in other contexts, has survived in the phrase soap suds enema, which of course just means an enema of soapy water. Any foam that may collect on top is incidental to the main event!

(Is this the most arcane post ever on zity.biz?)

Realize that most here use a soap, and I've tried the packets, drops, etc., but just never found any real need to take my enemas with a soap solution. Perhaps I'm missing something?!

Soap will get you a clear return faster with fewer enemas.

The irritation of the soap causes increased contractions which pushes out more feces.

I can't tell you exactly why, but it does.

Thank you one-eyes for your clarification. Got to give you a like for that one. You have now clarified soapy water.

Here's to you with the suds atop a favorite beer or stout.

When I refer to a soapsuds enema I obviously mean an enema of soapy water. The only soapsuds were on top of the bowl of soapy water that my mother made with Ivory soap.

She would fill the bulb syringe carefully to make sure it didn't contain any air so that only the soapy water was squirted up into my bowels.

I take soap suds enemas if I am really stopped up, plain water the rest of the time.

SSE give the Stim I need. And it takes me back to childhood

No doubt a soapy enema will get results (been there, done that this morning). Somehow, being a visual person, I just love seeing a head of soap suds cascading down the side of my open top bag. To get the suds really foamy, I pour the soapy solution from my pitcher into my bag from a distance so the solution foams up considerably as it goes into the bag. At the end of pouring the mixture, I have a nice frothy head of suds streaming down the sides of a bulging bag. Seeing this display, just makes my heart beat faster and adds to the special tingle I get.

Woo Hoo!

Deb

@ Debgurl Me, too! and if you're taking a slow enema, the bubbles insulate the remaining solution, so the enema stays nice and hot til that gurgle tells you it's all in you. I'll be getting a "liquid lunch" from my nurse in 2 hours. Overate over the weekend, and feel bloated. Ready to feel her hot soapsuds working its way deep into me.

A soapy enema does not need to have suds to work. Beside the suds will only stay on top of the soapy water in the bag, but it is the solution that flows into you to do the cleaning.

There are not a lot of suds on top of the water when I get an enema, but there sure are a lot of them in the toilet as I expel it. We use Dr Bronners Baby Formula Castile Soap in every enema of a series.

When I've gotten plain water enemas, much of the water came out as urine over a period of a few hours. What a nuisance.

When I've gotten enemas with salt, I've had a difficult time expelling them. Nuts.

With Dr Bronners, I don't need rinse enemas, and I don't have unwanted side effects.

I've had an enema series once or twice a week for many years with no ill effects. Many years ago, I was given daily enemas for extended periods. The only time I ever have problems is when I go longer than a week without an enema. I've got chronic constipation.

From an erotic standpoint a lot of folks like the visual stimulation that the sight of suds adds to their enema experiences. From a practical standpoint though, sudsy foam is somewhat undesirable in that is will leave more residue in your bag to wash out.

Saying "Soap Suds Enema" just seems to sound right, nevertheless.

An enema bag with a frothy head of suds is a classic representation of what is in store for the recipient.

If you use a lot of soap you need to do at least one more enema with clear water afterwards. It's certainly thorough but takes time. For a quick and easy enema I suggest clear tap water.

My wife and I tried enemas with soap a long time ago. We thought it was both unpleasant and a bit complicated to use (you have to shave a bar of soap into a pitcher, etc.) so we normally don't do it.

We saw a British series called "Call the Midwife", where we saw midwives preparing pregnant women for birth using a "hot, high and the hell of a lot" enema - in some scenes we see them preparing it and hey there seems to be a big quantity, and the water is milky from soap. Yikes - apparently it is based on the true practices of British midwives of that era!

My wife remarked to me that even though conditions have vastly improved, childbirth is still not a very dignified procedure (one of the pregnant ladies in Call the Midwife does not want an enema, because "that's not dignified"... but the head midwife still gives her one).

So today I wanted to experiment an enema similar to that of "Call the Midwife": soap (the "100% vegetal kind") shaved into flakes into 2 quarts of water. Some changes: I assume the ladies were in Sims' position, but I don't want risking soapy water in the bedroom so I was in the knee-chest position on the bathroom floor; the height of the bag was probably less than the height of the midwives' can; and the water was not much hot.

At the beginning things were fine, I could feel the water flowing. I took maybe half a quart. And then, I felt like my anus was not obeying me. It's not that I had "cramps", it's that it was like my lower tract had decided to expel. My anus was wide open, the nozzle would either go out or go too far. I began to leak. I basically had to run to the toilet, clenching my buttocks.

I took the bag in several installments, because each time, after some dose, I would have an irrepressible urge to expel and I did not want to do it on the floor.

I cringe at the thought that a pregnant lady may have had to endure two quarts of the thing. I mean, many probably leaked into their bed.

So lesson 1: a rather small enema of soapsuds really gives a urge to poop. If I had a lower constipation it would certainly have been washed away.

Lesson 2: women are stronger than men.

I'd be curious to hear from the older women in here who had given birth in eras and countries where soapsud enemas were given how they managed to withstand that.

So then I took a rinse with clear water. I could take the two quarts in one installment.

Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo will give you a nice soapy enema without much cramping, and nice foaminess in the release. The shampoo retains it's fragrence during the release, so the nice smell is predominant. Try it................you'll like it.

How much suds you will get at first also has to do with the mineral content of the water.

Generally well water will have a higher mineral content, and won't suds up as much.

Sudsing has nothing to do with cleaning ability.

Manufacturers add sudsing agents that make bubbles to increase customer satisfaction with the product.

People erroneously believe the suds make for better cleaners.

Exactly as our moderator explained. The soap solution creates an irritation to the bowel wall and stimulates stronger contractions, thus pushing out what's binding you up. The home health nurse who gave my first enema after I'd been in the hospital added a liquid soap packet to the water and explained why. She sealed the plastic bag and rolled it a couple times and the water turned sort of milky. As she hung the bag I remember that she smiled down on me while I was lying in bed when she said, "This will do the trick." Did it ever!