Soapsuds enemas

I have experimented with soap over the years with no ill effects. I have taken soapy enemas then inserted a full ivory bar as a plug till it melted by repeated anal contractions. I even did a dawn soap many years ago, that was hard

I even did a dawn soap many years ago, that was hard

Don't repeat. Some detergents cause severe chemical colitis, and since dish detergent is an "external use" thing they don't have to be as detailed in listing what goes in it.

Soap...I've made and used a lot of Ivory solution (shaved off a bar, added some hot water, and kept stirring until it was completely dissolved), Johnson's Baby Shampoo,, usually 3 good squirts for 1 1/2 quarts, the Medline Castile soap packets (which do pack quite the punch...), and I just tried Softsoap Liquid Hand Soap on a recommendation and that worked really well...

Elaine (thinking it's time for another one...which one... who knows...)

@moliere Don't repeat. Some detergents cause severe chemical colitis

Yes, very true - only took using liquid detergent one time for me to realize this. Luckily the colitis wasn't too serve, but enough so I never did it again.

Had enemas regularly as a child, but my mom only used plain water, just like for her own enemas. One time I was sick in bed and the Dr. ordered a soap suds enema for me. I remember sitting on the toilet trying to go as my mom made the enema. She was busy at the bathtub with a water pitcher. The water looked so white, I asked her if she was using milk for my enema? She said no, the Dr. ordered a soapy enema for me. I laid down on the bathroom floor and she started the enema. Almost immediately I could taste soap in my mouth. I told her and she looked shocked. After just a little bit of enema, I was having severe cramps. I told her and she stopped the flow which always stopped the cramps with plain water, but not this time. The cramping got worse and I began to get nauseous. I told her to take it out I was sick. I jumped up onto the toilet as she grabbed a trash can and held it in front of me. I was squirting from both ends!! I was SO SICK!! My rectum and colon were on fire, my stomach was cramping, I was throwing up everything but my nuts!! AWFUL!!! It took almost one hour before I could get off of the toilet and lie down. (If that had been my first enema, I definitely would not be on this forum today!) She had made the soap solution incredibly strong, out of ignorance. She never took soapy enemas, so she just did not know any better, plus I don't know what kind of soap she used, so it might have been harsh. I know we never used Ivory soap so that could not be it.

Obviously the enema did not resolve my constipation, I did not take enough water or hold it long enough to initiate a bowel movement. She called the Dr. office and they sent out a nurse (Back in the day, when you actually got service from a Dr. office. ) She made up a soapy enema using some soap that she brought with her and showed my mom how to do it right. The nurse gave me the enema, making my mom hold the bag at her waist level (about 3 feet high) with me laying flat in the floor on my back with my knees raised and feet flat on the floor. (my usual position.) I was able to take all that was in the bag and I had a good bowel movement. In the future my mom went back to plain water enemas for me (at my request) however she went back to her habit of hanging the bag from the medicine cabinet door. It was much too high for an enema! When I got older, I measured and the hook was 5'-4" above the floor! Can you say "STUBBORN"! YEP that was my mom!

@Mark wrote

After all the millions of enemas that have been given over the years I think we can assume they are safe so long as no idiotic solutions are used. Too many of us have grown into old age after a lifetime of enemas and there lies the proof.

I like the term "idiotic solutions" because from time to time we read about those. Why anyone would mess around with known harmful substances is beyond me. As for soap, growing up the only kind of enema that we had was Ivory. But be careful because soap does not mean detergent. Also, there are soaps such as deodorant soaps that contain bacteriastats that don't belong in your lower digestive tract. While I prefer to use Dial bar soap in my shower, it does not belong in an enema.

My early enemas that I got from mom, or gave to myself, were just plain warm water. Then as a young adult, travelling for business I bought a Fleet Bagenema kit at a drugstore one evening. It had a little packet of castile soap in it. I used it, and was quite pleased at the results. I had read in a nursing manual or somewhere that castile soap was a common soap used in hospitals and such, I found a local source of castile and used it for about half of my enemas at the time. I tried Ivory after reading that it was the most common soap used by many others. I found it to be much more harsh than the castile. Then I read that some of you used J&J baby shampoo, and it quickly became my favorite. I get a good cleanout with a minimum of irritation. Since my enemas are for enjoyment rather than deliberately causing cramps or discomfort, it is what I use most times, when I want soap. I still use castile occasionally for a change of pace, but most times it is J&J.

Then I read that some of you used J&J baby shampoo, and it quickly became my favorite. I get a good cleanout with a minimum of irritation. Since my enemas are for enjoyment rather than deliberately causing cramps or discomfort, it is what I use most times, when I want soap. I still use castile occasionally for a change of pace, but most times it is J&J.

@Cheryl77177 That's my go to soap too, and it's everything you said it is! 👍

One of my neighbors is a retired nurse, now 83, who began her career prepping patients for surgery by giving “soapsuds enemas” that actually weren’t overly soapy. Catherine and I were chatting one afternoon over tea, talking about the old days and her nursing memories.

Enough liquid Castile soap to turn the water “milky” and cause enough irritation in the bowel to “result in a productive evacuation,” she said. (I love the way nurses described certain procedures.) She didn’t do rinses unless the order was enemas until clear, which were very hard on the patients, she explained. And very tiring on the nurses!

However, in the "golden" days in hospitals, enema solutions were much stronger. Catherine’s mother was a nurse in those days, and they actually used a type of green soap in enemas. Not much fun, Catherine joked. Enemas could be very painful due to the irritation.

Vicki V...obviously that nurse had a very good understanding of the efficacy of those soapy enemas that seemed to be so prevalent back in "The Golden Age" (?) of enema use. In my reading over the last 65-70 years regarding this topic, it seems that many physicians ordered some type of additive to the enema solution based on the desired outcome. Some of those solutions seem quite unusual and could be perceived as idiotic in today's negative attitudes toward this simple procedure.

My avatar "sse4fun" is merely an expression of my general enjoyment of the enema procedure. I don't always use soapy solutions, but when I do, it is because I desire a more aggressive expulsion that is due to some actual constipation. In some roleplay scenarios, the soapsuds enema elevates the situation to more closely simulate what may have been more common in my younger existence. Thank goodness for those understanding nurses that can provoke a very positive outcum in such interactions!

I was talking to my late Mother-in-law , who was a nursing supervisor about enemas. i was sick at home and constipated. She told me not to use soap because it was too irritating. Later when she stopped by to check on me, she asked if my enema had worked, and I said "I never had it, and I wish you would just give me one". She said "get your butt out and I'll give it to you. I asked her if it had soap in it and she said yes. Later my wife said she just grabbed a bar of Irish Spring and swished it in the sink. So to her soap was soap. This was in the 70's.

@Vicki_V However, in the "golden" days in hospitals, enema solutions were much stronger.

I often wondered (late 1940's) where my parents got the idea making super strong enemas using allot of Ivory Flakes (the flakes had to be dissolved in a pot of hot water on the stove) making a syrupy soap enema that was given using a bulb.....

Love a nice soapy bag every now and then

When I take an enema it is very, very rarely for constipation. 99% of my enemas are for pleasure. I had experimented with Ivory when I was young, just by swishing the bar in the water until it had a good milky appearance. I was never pleased about not being able to quantify the amount of soap in the enema. Some time ago I wanted to explore the Ivory enema again. After doing some searching here I found some members were grating the Ivory soap into a powder. I now grate the Ivory with a microplane and then am able to measure exactly how much soap is in each enema. The results have been fantastic. I just finished an excellent 3 quart enema with 1.75 Tablespoons of Ivory.

I like variety, so sometimes I use Ivory, sometimes Dr. Bronner's peppermint, and sometimes Dr. Bronner's citrus when I want a soapy enema.

After reading MomsEgirl postings and her results of a nice and soapy bag, I’ve been using Kirk’s Coco-Castile bar soap mixed until very opaque and frothy for a really good purge🤪I like J&J, Dr. Bronners liquid castile(especially peppermint) and the almond or lavender(very calming)for my starter bags. I have rediscovered the slightly crampy effects and a fillup with a lengthy hold, enjoying the waves of pleasure and cramping until I have to release(farts and plops and all). Of course I follow with at least 2 more bags of sea salt and very warm water until reasonably clear😍I feel really good both physically and emotionally after a series of enemas. I love the expulsions and the “clean inside and out” results😍

I was first given enemas as prescribed by a team of gastroenterologists when I was 8 years old. The recipe they prescribed was 10ml of Castile soap and 20ml of glycerin in 500ml of isotonic saline solution. These were not overly soapy, but 500 ml is not a huge amount of solution so they were not very diluted.

After 6 or 7 years, I started increasing the volume and the soapiness of my recipe. I’ve taken very soapy enemas over the years (1.5 oz of Castile for 1.5 quarts), but I find the most effective solutions are still the more mild ones. I use a ratio of about 20-30ml of Castile soap per quart/liter of solution. They allow you to cleanse the colon more effectively than plain water without causing unnecessary irritation.

I do not understand people’s willingness to use non-natural soaps for enemas, much less harsh dish detergents. The colon is one of the most absorptive organs in the entire body. Beyond wreaking havoc on someone’s micro biome, absorbing the chemicals that are present in most otc soaps would be terrible for someone’s health. Any soap that says “antibacterial” on the bottle should not go anywhere near someone’s intestines. Please only use vegetable glycerin and Castile soap with no artificial additives. Essential oils and other natural fragrances are likely fine. Even Ivory is realistically way too harsh to be using in an enema, at least in its currently-marketed formulation.

We always got ivory soap enemas water heated on the stove poured in a big bowl. stirred with a wooden spoon until milky color then measured out in a Pyrex measuring cup. One quart soapy and bag topped off with warm water from the kitchen or bathroom sink until bag was full.

In about half an hour my enema nurse will be administering 2qts with J&J along with 20ml glycerin. It will be delivered with a dbc. The first balloon will be seated in the sigmoid and the second will be high up in the rectum.

I have adopted a different method for making up my soapsuds enemas and have a "enema soap jar" that I use. I take all of my small Ivory soap bar scraps and put them in a Ball jar with some hot water and set it in the cabinet and when it is enema time I retrieve it from the cabinet and give it a good shake and pour it in the pitcher and mix it with some hot water and dump it in the bag. Then I fold over the top of the bag and give it a vigorous shake and the suds foam up beautifully and flows down the edge of the bag as I add enough hot water to complete a big hot soapy three-quart enema. My understanding is that this was once the way nurses kept soapsuds handy for mixing enemas. They would take all the soap scraps from patient's rooms once the patient had left the hospital and throw them in the jar and that was the "enema soap" jar. I do it simply for the sake of nostalgia and the joy of allowing my mind to drift back to a time when the major part of the nursing day was mixing up and administering hot soapsuds enemas. I do not remember this practice specifically because it was gone by the time I arrived and I just heard stories about it, but I do recall a time when giving an enema was more of a nursing decision where routine order sets had the question, "soapsuds enema?" with a check box next to it and it was virtually always checked "yes."

@faultless50 I do the same thing. I keep a small plastic jar that used to have shaving soap in it. I keep my soap slivers in there covered in water. I think there are 5 slivers currently soaking in a soapy slurry. I take about 1/4 cup... maybe a little less.. per 2 qt bag. I gently mix vs shaking as I don't like the cramps I get from the bubbles... but really enjoy the feeling of a deep cleaning. I'll have 8 days of privacy starting Saturday and may go through all of it.. plus some baby shampoo ... which I also enjoy quite a bit.

I received soapsuds enemas as a child, ver cramps and it worked quickly. I tried it again a few years ago and although it worked I became extremely nauseous and haven’t tried it again. I like enemas for pleasure so stick with warm tap water

I have used Ivory and J&J Baby Shampoo No Tears. But 99.9% of the time we use plain warm water, two to three bags not at the same time. One then expel and then another and expel and then another and expel and then use the shower massage hose.

The medical director and advisor from optimal health network says; Goats milk soap two different blends 15.00 package for two

soothing efffect for I.B.S. people

Using my preferred equipment, a plastic hospital bucket, I either do several squirts of Dr. Bronner.s unscented or just a bar of ivory which i sit in the bottom while filling, rolling it around in one hand until the water looks milky. Always works well. While I was recovering from surgery I watched a home nurse making one prior to giving it to me. She filled the bucket up halfway and then scrubbed the bar between her hands to create soapsuds, man was that soapy. My mom always used a bowl to make soapy water then filled the bag.

I took a strong 2 quart hot soapsuds enema 2 days ago using Dr. Bronner's Baby Mild Unscented Liquid Castile Soap after having several days of problems pooping. It flowed in fairly quickly as I lay on my back on the bathroom floor and I was only able to hold it in for 3 minutes before feeling a desperate need to go, but all I could get out were a few hard pellets of poop as I sat on the toilet for 5 minutes. I went to my bedroom and put my pyjamas back on but suddenly felt an unstoppable urge to poop some more and couldn't get to the toilet before loose runny poop poured out of me making a huge mess in my pyjamas and on the bathroom floor. I understand now why my Mom usually gave me enemas on my bed with a plastic sheet and towel under me and kept a chamber pot on a stool right beside the bed for me to expel my enema into.

I have an question, has anybody ever used whatever hand soap is available by just putting a couple squirts in the enema bag?

I always use either Dr. Bronner's unscented or Ivory bar soap swished until the water becomes somewhat milky and opaque. I have had two nurses who just did what I asked and didn't think anything of it. One said "all we have to do is just put a couple of squirts in the bag". I don't recall noticing anything different. In both cases I was recovering from surgery and really needed an enema.

@novnot01a - I have used several squirts of Dial handsoap a couple times. Didn't work as well as Castille or Dr Bronner's, in my opinion.

" Dr. Bronner's " will absolutely be a good choise !!