I've been reading a few places lately that you shouldn't even use any soap on your anus. Do any of you have any advice on this?

I never use soap there, for over two years now. Clean as the driven snow without it. CRS's advice to me.

Thanks for the reply. I wanted to know because I have a problem with dry skin in general. I had been not using soap for a few days, and then out of habit I felt a need to use soap on it after a few days. I noticed during the few days I didn't use soap my symptoms seemed way more mild, and then after using soap I experienced a lot of irritation. I just felt like it cause problems if I wasn't using antibacterial soap ever, but if a doctor is giving you advice to not use soap and that's an ok thing then I'll definitely try not using soap for quite awhile. Thanks again for responding.

So what do you use instead of soap?

Nothing plain clean water you don't need soap down there even more so if your a female antibacterial soaps are the worst they kill all bacteria an leave you at risk to thrush our bodies don't need any help to clean them they clean them selves from inside out every hole has its own flush interference will only invite issues i don't remember the last time I used soap anywhere but my arm pits an feet