Stinking on the days you dont shower is rude
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2024
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I think it depends on the person. If you get stinky easily, then yes, shower daily.
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.
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.
Going swimming during summer months counts as a bath, right?
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.
it's likely you ooze oil because you're constantly using harsh products to scour all the oil from your skin lol, i had the same experience up until i stopped using shampoo for a month and my body finally got the memo and simply stopped spewing out grease, now it simply doesn't get oily at all.
Bruh i'm bald. I don't use shampoo period. I use what's supposed to be a healthy-skin face wash, and i just apply it by hand (no sponge or anything).
If anything I'd guess diet is the biggest thing, but I'm climbing regularly and not eating my current protein-heavy diet leaves me hella sore and out of energy, so i don't feel like experimenting with my diet ATM.
Agreed. When I was younger I had very oily skin. Skipping a day without showering I realize I was much hotter and generally irritable. I needed to get the oil off me to stay cooler and happy.
Now I'm older and much less oily. I can skip and don't get stinky or hot. Even working out I don't really get stinky, at least per my wife. Not the case when I was young.
So very true. I’ve found over cleaning and over applying deodorants made me “need” to more often so I’d be mindful of that also!
Someone has never visited the Bible Belt.
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.
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.
Exactly. I work from home and don’t really experience temps above 75.
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.
OP, you probably stink. You might not care but I'm sure the people around you do.
Been doing this for twenty years, not one complaint
You do you. I work with a guy that doesn't think he stinks too. He does.
and has anyone informed him of that? it's a bit wild to sit there thinking he's weird and then not doing anything to rectify the situation
Yes, a coworker that wasn't afraid of HR told him he has a little funk going on and might want to shower more often. He laughed it off and said he doesn't smell bad. Now when he's particularly ripe, he hoses himself down in some flowery body spray that I would say is worse than his funk since it's like the old ladies that use enough perfume for two months on a single outing.
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?
yeah, what if op has an abcc11 gene malfunction?
I'm a nurse. Does that count as "blue collar"? Because I absolutely need to shower after 12 hours in the hospital.
Blue collar: Manual labor/skilled trade are the usual thoughts that come up. Going to say nurse could fall into either/both
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 do exercise daily, sorry, daily shower is a must.
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
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.
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.
This is pretty much me my whole life. I sweat super easy.
Also my brain itself doesn't like heat. If you are familiar with Discworld, I'm basically a troll. The heat makes me dumb and unable to focus.
Im also super sensitive to humidity with breathing. When its warm and humid out I feel like I can't breath.
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.
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.
Nope. Live in a place where being outside for 10 minutes results in swamp ass. Exercise everyday, even indoors.
Well you exercise everyday, so the outside part doesn't really matter for that scenario. You'd take a shower from sweating from exercise
And I think that’s the point. We all assume everyone else will shower if they do something that makes them sweaty. If not. That’s where the problem arise imo
Disagree. It depends on factors like stress, diet, and genetics. Not everyone is just like you.
How often do you exercise?
If I don't my eczema gets extra bad, unfortunately.
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'.
Face, pits, downstairs mix!
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.
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