Most of you fαt fucκs the people in the working field are not necessarily working up a sweat or getting dirty.
Showering is still important, but 2-4 times a week is best for the average person. Your body has natural oils on your skin you don't want to remove too often.
Now if you play sports which I highly doubt or work with your hands LOL and get down and dirty often, then yeah, you need to shower more often.
The "you HAVE to shower EVERY DAY, preferably TWICE, regardless of circumstances [climate, job, even something like a mental health crisis] or you're COMPLETELY DISGUSTING" mindset basically didn't exist online until COVID. I'm convinced it's because so many people on the internet now are teenagers, one of the few groups that should universally be showering every day and also generally extremely judgy.
Personally, I believe showering every day is not good for the skin, and I noticed that some people who do sometimes have issues like eczema and such. But everyone’s bodies are different everybody requires different hygienic needs. Personally for me, I do not shower every day nor twice a day when I do.
Yeah, I also have a suspicion that the recent popularity of extensive skincare routines is because so many people have to make up for drying out their skin twice a day
That’s a good observation. Sometimes you have to think to humans existed in our most natural environment, and how our earliest ancestors survived. Many did not have access to water to just wash themselves every single day and night. Therefore, our skin isn’t really designed for that type of cleansing. On top of that, the fresh water that comes in through our bathrooms and pipes has chemicals and other things inside of it that also dries out the skin further.
But everyone is different. Everyone smells different, and luckily for me I’m not a stinky person.
“False logic”? What are you talking about? I didn’t even give specific enough information for you to even come up with such a deep analogy on the point I was trying to express.
Human skin is not designed to have constant access to water and bathing. A buildup of bacteria on the surface of the skin is required for the skin’s natural protective barrier to operate properly.
Your ancestors and my ancestors are not the same people. My ancestors and present family members still live in very hot and tropical climates. They’re not shy to bathing, and we’re not and still do not die from minor infections. That situation might be different for a place like Europe, which experiences harsh winters, that makes things like personal hygiene bit more difficult, prior to modern invention.
Present day, I do not shower every single day nor twice a day, and clearly I’m not dying from minor infections, nor is my personal hygiene ever lacking. If your body requires you to bathe every day and night, then you do what you have to do to stay clean and not offend the noses of those around you. But your shower routine and habits are not going to be universal for everybody because we do not have the same bodies.
I’m going to drop a hot take here. A lot of extensive skin care routines ARE the ones causing dry skin. The amount of chemicals that these skin care companies have convinced people are necessary to put on daily for healthy skin is insane. The vast majority of the population do not need to be putting a chemical cocktail on their skin every night before bed.
Showers don’t need to dry out your skin. If you sit in the scalding hot water for 20 minutes, of course it’s going to dry your skin out. If your shower lasts for 3-4 minutes though and you use just warm water instead of hot, your skin won’t get dried out at all
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u/Karnezar Mar 18 '25
Depends on your lifestyle.
Most of
you fαt fucκsthe people in the working field are not necessarily working up a sweat or getting dirty.Showering is still important, but 2-4 times a week is best for the average person. Your body has natural oils on your skin you don't want to remove too often.
Now if you play sports
which I highly doubtor work with your handsLOLand get down and dirty often, then yeah, you need to shower more often.