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.
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
People also commute on foot, by bike, public transit, etc. which means they should absolutely rinse at the bare minimum.
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.
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.
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.
Deal with 1k mile super commuters.
But he’ll be so good for the shareholders! /s
Interesting. I might try this.
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.
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
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.
Blue collar: Manual labor/skilled trade are the usual thoughts that come up. Going to say nurse could fall into either/both
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
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.
Multiple times per day??
Before and after bed usually, maybe even a third time after gym.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
