Taking a shower every day is excessive.
Taking a shower every day is excessive.
UNLESS you work a blue collar job, or any other job that requires you to be outside the whole time, I don’t see the point in showering every day. Especially if you work from home or in a building with AC. It seems excessive and is also a waste of water. But do what you want lmao.
My daughter is 18 and doesn't need to shower every day. She has no discernable body odour that I know of and she hardly sweats.
I'll be smelly by 4pm having had a shower at 7am. Deodorant can only do so much. I work from home at a desk.
Everyone is different.
you might appreciate your odor more than others do.
but great unpopular opinion.
I'll say that Navy Showers should be the norm. Also makes it easier to end the shower instead of standing there at the end.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, water heating is typically the second-largest energy expense in homes (after space heating).[2]
A ten-minute shower takes as much as 230 liters (60 U.S. gal) of water, while a navy shower usually takes as little as 11 liters (3 U.S. gal)
You should sweat every day, either via labor or exercise. (Obv not always intense exercise)
Disagree. It depends on factors like stress, diet, and genetics. Not everyone is just like you.
For me, agreed. I live in a desert, work a sedentary job, and spend the vast majority of my time freezing in the ac because I'm not warm unless it's like 76 degrees. My skin is happier if I skip a day and I try to save water whenever possible. But for other people, they know their stink levels better than me, and I'm not gonna tell anybody else how to wash themselves. Unless they're like my ex, taking 2 or 3 showers a day for literally no reason and running up the water bill in, again, a damn desert. I did tell him to knock that off.
Upvoted for unpopular lol
UNLESS you have a highly active lifestyle all you need is survival rations, I don’t see a point in eating literally anything else. It seems excessive to eat food based on “taste” and a waste of resources.
Also, typing words other than the information on the few required government documents is also a waste, exemplified by your post. But do what you want 😉
Depends on where you live and what you do, right? If I don't sweat, smell or got dirty somehow, I shower every second day. I don't need to shower every day if I just hang out at home and game and sleep the whole day lol
Not just excessive - it's simply bad for the skin, causes rashes and fungal issues.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/showering-daily-is-it-necessary-2019062617193
Take any temperature you feel comfortable at.
Raise it by 10℃, and consider that temperature. That’s what I feel like at your “comfortable” temp.
Simply put, my body runs super-hot. My ideal temps for various situations tend to be 8-15℃ below the same range of other people.
As in, even normal office temp ranges can make me look like a drowned rat if I engage in any physical effort at all. Even something as simple as moving banker’s boxes around can have me drenched in sweat at “normal” office temps.
I love winter, because I can be out there in -10℃ weather without even a jacket, be shovelling snow, and I can actually exert myself without sweating. Winter is about the only time of the year where I can experience truly comfortable temperatures.
You’re catching a lot of flak but if you’re not generally stinky skipping days without showering is fine.
If I’m just hanging around indoors and not doing anything strenuous not showering for a couple days is NBD. One afternoon doing yard work or similar and I’m taking a shower as soon as I’m done. Other people have other body odor issues and that may not work for them, so to each their own.
Every human body is different. Some people need a shower twice a day. Some people have natural perfume.
If you are concerned about it being a waste of water, then you can campaign to make society treat it as a valuable resource and not a “free swimming pool for everybody” type deal. Cause for a lot of those cases you point out, people are just using it like it’s priced dirt low.
Some people think "not showering" means to wash in any other way. Some people think "not showering" means to not wash at all.
Almost every single comment here reads totally different depending on the readers assumption.
Yup. Unpopular certainly covers it. Your body produces oils, it varies person to person, but that's why you bathe. Just because you don't think you worked up a great sweat doesn't mean you aren't dirty or smelly.
I do exercise daily, sorry, daily shower is a must.
Depends quite a bit on the lifestyle; but I agree.
Days I'm working (physical labor) I shower when I get home; but my days off I'm mostly sitting in an air-conditioned room watching media or playing games. Then I shower every other day; cause there's really no need. There's always exceptions though.
I'm a janitor at a busy airport. I'll shower every day because being around shitty/pissy toilets and trashes all day does leave a "scent" on you.
What's the average humidity where you live? Warm, humid climates make more sweaty people.
How often do you exercise?
Ever heard of exercise, OP?
If I don't my eczema gets extra bad, unfortunately.
Someone has never visited the Bible Belt.
I live in Canada. In the summer I'll shower every day, almost. Except days where, like you said, I stayed in with the AC on all day. Then I'll shower the day after.
In the winter I'll shower every two days. Or when I'm really cold and need some extra warmth.
I live in Wyoming. In the winter I bathe once or twice a week simply because it is so cold and dry that I don't sweat. If I bathe too much my skin will dry and crack in the cold dry air, which is not pleasant. Notice, I said bathe instead of shower. That's because if I am going to skip a few days, I need to make sure that I properly scrub off the dead skin. Dead dry skin can also lead to painful cracked skin. Wyoming winters don't fuck around.
In the summer it can get very dusty so skipping a shower is a rare thing. Hell, sometimes I have to wash the dust off my face multiple times a day.
EDIT: Grammar fixes
Depends on weather. In summer I usually shower at least once a day. Peak heat wave it was 4 times because I just could't function like that. Winter... depends, but often it's every other day, depending how I feel.
At home it's just part of my wake up routine to take a shower. I do it in the morning.
On holidays, like cycling holidays i may end up not taking a shower for a week even though i'll be sweating my ass off every day. I don't feel like i smell terrible then, and i have not gotten the vibe ever that somebody else thought i did. I use deo though and do some 'cat wash'.
Washing everyday can be excessive. rinsing everyday is good.
I shower every day because it feels nicer when I go to bed. With alopecia I got really sensitive to how sticky the skin gets, probably because there's not even a tiny push fuzz left. I only use shampoo every other day though.
Where do you live, and do you no exercise? I walk to work, get a ride home, go to yoga or take a long Pokemon Go walk or lift weights, no way am I crawling into bed without a shower.
If you are dead idle and living in a cold dry place, sure. But I don't think that is most of the world.
ETA: I saw the comment below about rinsing, not washing. I am not using soap everywhere every day, no. More of a rinse off.
I have a disability and cannot not shower every morning. It's also 35-40 degrees here most of the year. I cycle around town. I also don't need much water, I get myself wet, put shampoo, rinse, turn tap off again, lather, on, face was, rinse, off. I probably use five litres or less than that.
I’ve been a once a week person these days and I have no problem with it. I don’t leave the house much and should prob exercise more though dangit.
I don't see the point either. Now in winter for example I'm taking, like, 4 showers a week - I never skip two days, but I'm not going all the way to shower religiously every single day either.
I work from home for my main job (desk job) and still sweat; I also try not to over-use my air conditioning. Additionally, I have to mow (though the goal is to continue reducing grass in favor of edible plants, it takes time), do other work around the house, and do small-scale farming.
All of that nonwithstanding, I've gotten into the habit here in Japan of not getting in to bed dirty. I don't wash my sheets every single day, so I wash me before getting into bed rather than stewing in bacteria, fungi, pollen, etc. for a week or more at a time. Additionally, a hot bath before bed helps me relax and get ready for sleep (though I skip it sometimes in the worst parts of summer). My sleep quality is also now better than it used to be.
Gross. Have an upvote.
My skin and hair are to sensitive. I'd like to shower every day, but my skin doesn't do very well when I do
I shower every other day and feel fine, except on the hotest days in summer
yes and no, IMO it's probably best practice but not really necessary to shower with only water every day, but it's definitely not needed to also use products every day, unless you work with stuff that gets on your body and actually needs soap and shampoo to come off.
For the average person i'd say shower with soap once per week and then just rinse with water and scrub yourself down whenever you feel the need.
Going swimming during summer months counts as a bath, right?
Eh, at least rinse off. TMI, but I personally enjoy having my intimate areas touched, and I find washing them helps me get where I want to go.
Maybe no need to vigorously scrub your body from head to toe every morning, but there is an advantage to at least rinsing the stink off of yourself every day.
Stinking on the days you dont shower is rude
I think it depends on the person. If you get stinky easily, then yes, shower daily.
People talking about exercise and biological differences between individuals and all that jazz which is so subtle it's irrelevant.
The bottom line is op poops and pees every day and toilet paper and shaking twice isn't going to do it.
You gotta wash that stuff off. Everyday.
I mean... They have names for that stuff. Cheese, fumundie, smegma, dingleberrys... There's a reason for that.