Some people have rings that are so tightly stuck that even soap does not help, but dental floss works for them. Meanwhile, others find dental floss painful even with a mildly stuck ring, yet soap works well for very tight rings. Why is some skin more sensitive to dental floss? And what makes some people’s skin respond better to either soap or dental floss?
If you have a ring stuck on your finger you wind floss - let’s say 20 times- semi tightly around your finger in front of the ring. You then slip the end of the floss under the ring and then start trying to unwind it. The idea is that you’re both constricting the size of your finger and incrementally moving the ring forward as you unwind it. In theory.
Does it affect whether you have a lot or little fat in your fingers? My fingers have little fat, and my knuckles (in ring and middle fingers) are larger than the base of the fingers. Is that why dental floss was painful, but soap worked reasonably?