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.
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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.
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.
If you can…you are endangering the environment.
So sorry, confused it with my chair.
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
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I envy your lack of oily hair.
I’d say that fits the “unless” (OP should’ve included exercise).
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.
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
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.
My wife leaves the water running while brushing
I know this sounds crazy, but there’s a scientific basis for leaving the water running while you brush your teeth. See, I’m actually just making stuff up and wanted to see if I could get any bites lol
Navy shower + one of those droplets fractioning shower head and you’re golden.
Bonus point: It feels like showering in a Star Trek spaceship.
What’s this about golden showers?
Shit, I forgot about that expression
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?
No, most people keep the water running while soaping parts of the body outside of the water, then changing what part is soaped while the previously soaped is being rinsed in the water.
Huh, maybe Im weird, but I ~use the water to just wash out the soap (and maybe sometimes I pour hot water for a minute to relax).
I made my process even more efficient few years ago by applying soap both at the head and body before removing it (used to first wash the hair and then the body) and I no longer wash my hair twice (unless the 1st wash wasnt enough).
Edit: I’m from Greece in case it’s a culutral difference
I think most of us who take ‘long’ showers are using it as a form of relaxation/meditation whether consciously or not.
If i turn off the water while i soap, it takes like 3 minutes to get hot water again after I’m done.
Oh I wasnt aware that there could be such a problem, I ~hadnt ever encountered such an issue.😅
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.
Eh, I was shopping with a friend while staying over and they decided to pick up a really cheap shower head, and it made their hot water last 5-10 minutes. Before it would easily last 45min
As former Navy, a Navy shower is all you actually need. Unless I am having a stressful day or week I take a Navy shower. If it a stressful day or week I turn the temperature up as much as I can stand and let it relax me. A sauna would probably work better, but I don’t have that option.
You can get those small personal sauna things.
Showers really should work like dishwashers. Basically fill a reservoir, filter, re-heat, and recirculate that water a few times. Could also slowly drain and replace a bit of it throughout or have discrete wash/rinse cycles.
Most of the water used when I shower is just standing there because the hot water is relaxing.
Discrete fill drain cycles uses less water than continual dilution.
Maybe if you had dried on crusted food.
Navy shower also helps break the standing there mentality.
This is not how all people shower? Huh. The only reason I leave the water running might be because I’m so sore that I need to to loosen up my cramped muscles.
Some bath/shower faucet setups are really not conducive to stopping and starting unfortunately (I’m thinking of 3 valve systems where you have hot, cold, and bath <> shower faucet with no easy way to turn off and back on to the same temperature)
I forgot those were a thing. Yeah, that makes sense. Upgrade your showers, people! It’s worth it!
Deal with 1k mile super commuters.
But he’ll be so good for the shareholders! /s
Interesting. I might try this.
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.
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.
Multiple times per day??
Before and after bed usually, maybe even a third time after gym.
A lot of people have issues when science does not agree with their beliefs.
I couldn’t find any study on this.
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 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.
Same
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 😉
We should crowdfund that! We could call it something clever… Like Soylent! :P
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?
yeah, what if op has an abcc11 gene malfunction?
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.
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.
Blue collar: Manual labor/skilled trade are the usual thoughts that come up. Going to say nurse could fall into either/both
