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.
Washing your hair every day is excessive, but showering? Dunno about you but I exercise daily and I take a shower after because I am sweaty.
Washing your hair every day is excessive, but showering?
Speak for yourself. I shower every morning just to get my hairstyle back. I always look like I've been zapped with 10.000 Volts when I wake up and nothing else aside from warm water and shampoo helps. And I don't even have long hair.
Yo! Fair! Different hair types need different care.
I forgot about exercising, that would also make sense.
I forgot about exercising
Never change, Lemmy
I envy your lack of oily hair.
I can smell your ass from my screen. Ya gross.
I’ve always wondered what it smelt like. Inform me please
This is exactly the problem. 99% of the time you can't smell your own funk.
you might appreciate your odor more than others do.
but great unpopular opinion.
Nope. Live in a place where being outside for 10 minutes results in swamp ass. Exercise everyday, even indoors.
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)
TIL that I have always "Navy Showered". I grew up in the Caribbean where all we had was a solar water heater. The hot water would barely be enough for one person so we always water on/rinse/water off/lather/shampoo/water on/rinse/water off. It's how I have always done it. Same applies for toothbrushing. My wife leaves the water running while brushing, which has always driven mad.
From wikipedia:
A Navy shower [...] is a method of showering that allows for significant conservation of water and energy by turning off the flow of water in the middle portion of the shower while lathering.
Dont people just turn off the water when they apply soap to themeselves?
Navy shower + one of those droplets fractioning shower head and you’re golden.
Bonus point: It feels like showering in a Star Trek spaceship.
Yea, that 60 gallon thing is absolute worst-case, using a shower head from 40 years ago (which would be plugged up with minerals by now).
I've looked at the numbers everywhere I've lived over the last 25 years, and it's nowhere near 6 gal/min. Virtually every shower head sold since about 1990 limits it to 2 gal/min. You have to go find one that does more.
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.
I can't sleep unless I shower I just feel disgusting
This is the correct answer. Sleeping in a dirty bed feels like some depression nest shit nobody in a sound mental state would ever try to justify.
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
I'm a nurse. Does that count as "blue collar"? Because I absolutely need to shower after 12 hours in the hospital.
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
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 😉
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
That link is overly exaggerating. It's only really bad for you if you have a skin condition in the first place. Where I live showering multiple times per day is the norm and you don't see anyone with those problems at all.
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.
Nice to know there are others out there like myself. I'm not this far in the extreme, but I very obviously have northern genetics and I live in the humid South. I abhor summer and dream of winter. I just want to live somewhere where I don't become dehydrated from less than 30 minutes of effort outside.
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.
Different bodies different care. I constantly ooze thick oily sweat and if I don't shower I start getting bad acne. Also, just massive amounts of musky BO if I don't reapply deodorant every day.
It's nasty but it's just how my body do ATM. Gotta shower daily.
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.
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.
OP, you probably stink. You might not care but I'm sure the people around you do.
This seems unnecessarily rude without engaging with what OP said. They're basically asking why 24 hours is a magical shower number? Why not 20, or 12? What about 28, or 36?
Not everyone on the planet has the exact same body, so why would going any longer than 24 mean OP probably stinks?
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.
Ever heard of exercise, OP?
How often do you exercise?
If I don't my eczema gets extra bad, unfortunately.
Someone has never visited the Bible Belt.
Washing everyday can be excessive. rinsing everyday is good.
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