When I was in upper elementary school I would always want to use my moms shower so that I could use her Victoria Secret body wash that smelt amazing. I read the bottle and noticed it said "for external use only" for the longest time I believed this meant "for eternal use only". I stopped using her body wash in fear that I would not be able to use it eternally...I was not sure what would happen if I didn't use it forever but I was not about to find out!
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy
- Until about 6 months ago (I'm 21), I believed a bidet was used to wash your feet in.
Eep!— Rebekah - My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- For the longest time I didn't know that Spinal Tap wasn't a real group. No wonder I couldn't find their music.— Louis
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon