You should sweat every day, either via labor or exercise. (Obv not always intense exercise)
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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 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.
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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.
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
you might appreciate your odor more than others do.
but great unpopular opinion.
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.
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.
Ever heard of exercise, OP?
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
I shower every other day and feel fine, except on the hotest days in summer
Gross. Have an upvote.
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 😉
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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.
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.
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.
Hmm, think I'll trust the academic article over you.
A lot of people have issues when science does not agree with their beliefs.
I couldn't find any study on this.
Multiple times per day??
Before and after bed usually, maybe even a third time after gym.
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.
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.