Soapy enema or tap water enema?

What will be better for your health: a soapy enema or a tap water enema? Here a soapy enema will exclusively consist of the solution of a natural soap (ivory soap, olive oil soap) in warm water without any chemical additives.

In the chemistry the PH value is essential:

- PH < 7 → acid solution

- PH = 7 → neutral solution

- PH > 7 → alkaline solution

In the large intestine you will find the following values:

- Beginning (ascending part): PH = 5,5

- Middle (horizontal part): PH = 6,2

- End (descending part): PH = 6,8

A solution of a natural soap (ivory soap, olive oil soap) will have the following value: PH = 8,0 … 9,0

So, by taking a soapy enema the content of the large intestine will be more or less neutralized, but by taking a tap water enema the electrolyte balance will be disturbed.

I can't comment on which is healthier, but for me, a (mild) soapy water enema FEELS the best. Ivory, Kirks, Dr. Bonners, all good if added lightly. An enema that is too soapy makes me nauseated.

I usually just use tap water, or tap water with a T of salt and a T of soda. If I am constipated, I will use a teaspoon of Dr. Bronners peppermint in a 2 quart bag and don't plan on holding that. Then rinse with a couple of bags of plain water.

An enema that is too soapy makes me nauseated.

In this case the electrolyte balance will be disturbed too.

Health? Hmm, opinions could vary. If you want an excellent clean-out, a mildly soapy enema will give a much more effective cleaning of the colon that plain water. Or, at least, it works that way for me.

Jon

Soapy! I love the cramps it produces and how explosive the expulsions are.

I find that if I just do a plain water enema, the first part wants to expel strongly, but the second half, wants to hang around inside and trickle out, taking forever.

That's not saying I want a strong soapy enema that causes heavy cramping and makes you feel like your turning inside out, either. I feel that many people who use soap, use way to much.

I've found that everyone's sensitivity to soap is a little different, but adding just a touch helps with expulsion and overall cleansing

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I feel a little soap added to the enema bag is definitely worth doing when I am constipated. As long as I don’t over do it. It lubricates and gently stimulates to help move things along. Plain tap water in my bag certainly is needed for my rinse enemas and gentle cleansing. I will usually add 1 or 2 teaspoons of salt to my bag of tap water. @ Miss Sarah, I like a little Dr Bronners peppermint in my soapy bags too. It’s a nice feeling.

I enjoy the cramping too.

If constipated, 1 teaspoon of Dr. Bronners castille soap per quart will clean you out. I find 2 or more teaspoons per quart doesn't add anything and can make you nauseated. Note that 1 teaspoon of salt per quart will keep your electrolytes in balance. Regarding tap water, some people are of the opinion that tap water should never be used In an enema.

IMO, pH in an enema makes very little difference, as long as it remains in a safe and reasonable range. People have feedback mechanisms to maintain pH.

As far as water v. soapy water, it doesn't really make a lot of difference either, except that the soapy one will usually work somewhat faster. If someone gets a bag full of warm water, odds are they are going to have a very complete poo within 15 minutes. If the water is soapy, probably within 5 minutes. On the other hand, the plain water enema has more time in the person's colon, so the poo may well be softer and the potty tip easier.

Bottom line, the recipient is gonna poo… promptly.

As far as water v. soapy water, it doesn't really make a lot of difference either, except that the soapy one will usually work somewhat faster. If someone gets a bag full of warm water, odds are they are going to have a very complete poo within 15 minutes. If the water is soapy, probably within 5 minutes.

This is my experience too, that with an equal volume of a high enema the soapy enema will cleanse the large intestine significantly faster than this one with the tap water.

Why argue with mom or grandma- SOAPY of course! Having tried my best to be a good little enema boy for them, I continue to carry on their tradition with copious amounts of soap. Recently I began using shea butter liquid gel body soap, essential oils and baking soda in 3 quarts of warm water for my enemas. “A good enema has to become uncomfortable at some point” as they always told me. ….michael https://en.zity.biz/gallery/image/97044

I used tap water for years and then I tried a Bronner's soap enema and what a different experience from tap water. I started with the peppermint soap and then tried lavender. The lavender seemed to be less harsh over the peppermint and so I have gravitated towards the lavender. From there that led me to try other ingredients like baking soda and Epson Salts.

Now I will always add some ingredient to my enemas. Tap water seems so boring now.

(1) Tap water seems so boring now.

(2) Now I will always add some ingredient to my enemas.

concerning (1): This corresponds to my experience.

concerning (2): For me this will be always ivory soap.

A little bit of soap goes a long way with me, it is very irritating. I usually use baking soda and water it is very soothing and still give a good clean out. I don't like the cramps and burning from a soap solution. I am usually in it for pleasure, not pain!!

If a soapy enema will be very irritating or rather agreable will depend exclusively of the concentration of the natural soap in the tap water. From my own experience this point will be reached exactly when the soapy water will become just opaque, than finish to dissolve the ivory soap in the solution.

@Ebbie_Anne Soapy! I love the cramps it produces and how explosive the expulsions are.

Yes, exactly what I like! I cannot remember when or if I ever used plain water. Gotta have soap, gotta have cramps and expulsions where I feel like I blasting off like a rocket!

I find that a tap water enema usually works perfectly well if I have not been constipated any longer than 4 days. For anything longer, I need to add castile soap to the water to get the same amount of relief in a reasonable amount of time.

A little Ivory and warm water squirt inside the rectum and on the inflatable nozzle for lubricant and quickly followed by a peppermint soap 2-3 quart filling is mind blowing.

Plain tap water? TOO BORING! I want it...(and ever since my childhood years), I NEED it nice and warm and VERY soapy. My body and my sexual psyche loves and craves the sublime feeling of being in a near constant state of high urgency to expell. The challenge is to hold on to the soapy solution for just as long as I possibly can stand it. The pressure and cramping way up inside my colon (lordy I do love it so!) helps insure solid erections and deep sexual longings to be filled completely to the brim and beyond, to the point of extreme internal fullness and some mild pain. I have to use a double balloon hospial style inflatable retention nozzle, well lubed and then fully inflated both inside and out of my rectum- and still the very powerful urge to expel (ummmm) is sometimes more than the twin balloons can prevent, so leakage is often a problem. I now use a waterproof bedpad up underneath my bare butt while I'm taking and holding larger enemas. The key to “happiness” is finding the right soap and a sufficient quantity to give me that very strong feeling of desire to defecate that I like so much, without causing me any physical harm or a need to do any lengthy rinses afterwards. I have tried most of the “usual” choices over the years with mixed results but, recently, I've found that African Black Liquid Soap (cocoanut oil based) for sale on eBay is really, really satisfying. I especially savor the feeling of utter helplessness and being totally unable to control my bowels…a fond remembrance of my past when I was taking SSE's until clear for my grandmother on a fairly regular basis. I was getting rectal suppositories and a series of hot, Ivory soapsuds enemas and then using the toilet for her pretty often back then. It wasn't long before I discovered that a forceful expulsion of hot, soapy brown water squirting seemingly endlessly from my bottom hole (I liked being naked while getting a “big boy's” enema….all that I could possibly hold until my tummy was aching.. and I did my very best to show her that I was an obedient and submissive patient for whatever she had planned for me) that I knew from the strong odor was coming from WAY up deep inside my colon. That was my grandmother's goal. A complete internal clean-out. Always. Strangely, the larger, deeper and more humiliating the enema, the more proud I was for having pleased her.by willingly taking it, ALL of it, for her, to show that I was prepared to do whatever she asked of me. Then.as I grew a little older and a bit more experienced, around age seven or eight as I recall, what I especially came to look forward to was our sessions together that lasted much of the morning. These sessions sometimes made me feel really ashamed because the enemas that she required me to take kept getting larger and much more difficult to hold. The very “best” was when I was on my hands and knees in the bathtub, my belly fully distended with a hot, soapy enema churning inside me and panting aloud for relief and permission to get on the toilet. My grandmother would rub and kneed my abdomen forcing the water ever higher into my colon, “Now I want you to show me that you can hold it for me for a while longer. I know it hurts but try to control yourself for just a few more minutes, baby, Don't leak and make a mess in the tub that I'll have to clean up. O.K.? When I think you've held it long enough, then I'll help you up out of the tub and put you on the toilet. I want to inspect the results so don't flush until I tell you to. I know you can hold it for me - if you really want to so try hard to control yourself.” And then, later that evening and for days and weeks at bedtime, I'd become strangely excited as I vividly remembered every detail and every feeling/desire/emotion that I had experienced by what she was doing to me and for me in the bathroom. It was a golden time in my life and I do still miss it today.

If its playtime give me tap water I'm in a hurry. I'm going somewhere or just want a relaxing enema I'll take Johnson and Johnson that's always a nice way to go.

Or you could do what I do!

Use tap water to dissolve the soap.

My soapsuds enemas are made using tap water.

To address the OP's question and assertions, there are several things to consider and I'll start with the electrolyte levels (meaning the concentration of certain specific electrolytes in human blood). The one most people are familiar with is sodium but it also includes potassium and the often overlooked calcium concentrations. None of these values are fixed or static levels in your blood stream. Although the OP is likely referring to the osmolality (sodium), there is a range within each person operates. The simple oxidation of of glucose is producing carbon dioxide and water (in addition to any water intake through oral ingestion or through an enema in addition to any electrolytes that are or might be introduced through those pathways). You could not long survive if all you took in was pure water and no electrolytes from any source. Your electrolyte balance is always “disturbed” as it is operating with a dynamic equilibrium range.

Now as to pH; yes, most soaps are basic (have a pH greater than 7.0). This is not to be confused with alkalinity although they tend to be used interchangeably. It is often true that many things that are alkaline are also basic (pH greater than 7.0). Soaps are alkaline because they use alkalis (sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide) to saponify oils and fats and their triglyceride backbone to form water soluble “salts” of the oils, fats, and fatty acids. In this saponification reaction, glycerol (glycerin, a polyol) is formed. In the case of potassium hydroxide saponification, the “salt” is liquid. This makes separation of the resulting glycerin somewhat problematic. You'll notice that glycerin is listed as an ingredient in the liquid soaps. In the case of sodium hydroxide saponification, the salt becomes solid through processing. It is much easier to separate and thereby reduce the glycerin content of a solid (sodium based) soap.

Let me also note that while the pH of the soap might be basic (e.g., 9.5 as reported for Ivory soap and 8.9 - 9.0 for Dr. Bronner's), that's important only if you are using “pure” soap as your enema. It takes a bit of effort to liquify solid soap with minimal water addition. But as a practical matter, you are not using pure soap (I don't know anyone using a full large bottle of Dr. Bronner's soaps as their enema). You are using a significant dilution with water that has a nominal pH of 7.0. Without going through a detailed set of calculations I can predict that the pH is slightly basic and probably significantly less than 8.0. Because the scale is logarithmic it is not a simple linear scale. That's not to say that pH doesn't have an effect on the colon activity. It's likely less than opined by the OP.

@Enema_Runner

Thanks to you for this excellent addition.

Or you could do what I do!

Use tap water to dissolve the soap.

My soapsuds enemas are made using tap water.

You are right - this one will be the best use of tap water in enemas.

What will be better for your health: a soapy enema or a tap water enema?

Depends what you are trying to do. If constipated you will need to get the poo out - a soapy enema will work well for that to start. With tap water enemas to follow up and finished the clean out.

If one just wants to relax and feel good a tap water enema with a bit of salt would do. Especially if administered by an enticing sexual partner would do.

If I am constipated, which is rare, I will take a soap suds enema but I wouldn't for any other reason. I do take coffee enemas weekly for detoxification.