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.
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
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’d say that fits the “unless” (OP should’ve included exercise).
I envy your lack of oily hair.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
You should sweat every day, either via labor or exercise. (Obv not always intense exercise)
you might appreciate your odor more than others do.
but great unpopular opinion.
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.
I do exercise daily, sorry, daily shower is a must.
Someone has never visited the Bible Belt.
