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bathing beardies

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Question
I bath my 2 beardies once a week, but sometimes they smell really bad.  My concern is if they feces on them is water enough to clean them?

Answer
 I use soft bristle toothbrushs as their scrub brush, one to each beardie.  If they have dirtied themselves recently, the water should be enough.  But if you have poop stains, I have used gentle dishwashing liquid like Palmolive (No Bleach) and scrubbed that on the stained areas. Then a rinse (All done away from the bath, under running tepid water.  When using soap, after drying my nice clean lizard, I rubbed the hide with sweet almond oil, coconut oil, or olive oil because soap removes all natural oils and even a lizard hide has them, and needs replacement.  This will keep the hide supple and the scales in good condition.  Plus if you use coconut or almond oil, you got a kissing sweet dragon!