The case for not bathing (4 Viewers)

[Saintshizzle]

I think it's worth noting that the point isn't necessarily that the act of showering is unnecessary - but more that we should think about the chemicals we're using at such frequency, and whether they're necessary. Dermatologists say that shampooing more than about twice a week (for most people) is overkill and not only bad for the environment but not optimal for your hair.

A good steamy rinse might get done 90% of what we shower for. Maybe all that soap, shampoo, and conditioner 5 to 14 times a week is overkill.

Its just crazy that people aren't bathing twice a day...lmao...

I've been in so many situations, dangerous ones, where you couldn't even whore bathe, that if I trip and fall...I'm taking a shower. Sweaty...shower, bedtime...shower, Morning w/o...shower. Hell, you piss me off bad enough, shower for hydrotherapy...lol...good for PTSD.

I just don't get it, how folks just lay around with stank ***.

 

[t_rav_82]

After spending a ot of time in Thailand Ive turned into a 3 shower a day guy. They are pretty obsessive about hygiene there and it just kind of rubbed off on me

I've actually told myself that 3 times a day is a good day. It means I ran in the morning and showered. Biked in the evening and showered. And well... the 3rd reason.


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[Dan in Lafayette]

actually Austria was even worse

i'm with the article in principle (plus i shave my head so shampoo is not a concern), BUT as a dancer who was in close contact with many people often, I will take over clean to under clean everyday
this is a subset of Modern Dance called "Contact Improvisation" - it uses the leverage of bodies and momentum to create some truly beautiful and unexpected moments - you are i constant contact with your partner
unfortunately it has been populated by stickin hippies since its inception - you'd come out of a "contact jam" and have someone else's smell on you for far too long
just got to a point that i couldn't take the smell anymore (like bars & cigarette smoke back in the day)

I can see how that could happen.

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[CapitalCitySaint]

As an avid hot yoga practitioner, someone who runs outdoors and goes to the gym, there is no way in hades that I am not going to use soap on a daily basis.

I wash my hair every other day. On weekends I can usually get away with every 2 days. If I could get away with every 5 days, I would because it takes so long for my hair to dry and to fix it. After day 3 though, that's really pushing it and I can barely stand it.

More often than not, I take two showers a day but if I'm going to skip one, it's usually the morning shower because I take showers at night during the week after I work out plus I hate going to bed dirty.

Also if any of you are shagging, you best be using soap on a daily. Water isn't going to cut it.

 

[FLEA]

I shower every morning and or after a long run or work out and only use activated charcoal soap. The charcoal soap eliminates any odor and also cleans pores. I also have not used deodorant or antiperspirant in over 3 years. I am just not a fan of putting chemicals on me that my leach into my pores. I think my ole lady would tell me if I stunk, at least I hope she would.

 

[49erKiller]

rubbed off on me

in Thailand

You don't say?

 

[saintmdterps]

As an avid hot yoga practitioner, someone who runs outdoors and goes to the gym, there is no way in hades that I am not going to use soap on a daily basis.

I wash my hair every other day. On weekends I can usually get away with every 2 days. If I could get away with every 5 days, I would because it takes so long for my hair to dry and to fix it. After day 3 though, that's really pushing it and I can barely stand it.

More often than not, I take two showers a day but if I'm going to skip one, it's usually the morning shower because I take showers at night during the week after I work out plus I hate going to bed dirty.

Also if any of you are shagging, you best be using soap on a daily. Water isn't going to cut it.

I&#8217;ve always enjoyed the post-coital funk. I love the smell of musk in the morning. Or at any other time

 

[tenordas]

After spending a month on tour in Spain with an orchestra from Bulgar, I can tell you that article is a bald faced lie. I dreaded being on that bus every day, and the stench got worse as the tour continued, certainly not better. They were very nice people, but all of them smelled terrible because they didn't shower. I swore if I ever went back I'd be bringing nose plugs.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

After spending a month on tour in Spain with an orchestra from Bulgar, I can tell you that article is a bald faced lie. I dreaded being on that bus every day, and the stench got worse as the tour continued, certainly not better. They were very nice people, but all of them smelled terrible because they didn't shower. I swore if I ever went back I'd be bringing nose plugs.

I always cringe in yoga when a granola, tree-hugging hippy with dread locks and (for the women) armpit hair who ride their bikes everywhere in the 110 degree Austin summers come in and pray that they don't end up next to me. They don't believe in soap or deodorant or use 'natural' deodorants and let me tell you, they don't work.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

I’ve always enjoyed the post-coital funk. I love the smell of musk in the morning. Or at any other time

But surely you bathe with soap before going to work if you've gotten some either the night before or morning of.

 

[saintmdterps]

But surely you bathe with soap before going to work if you've gotten some either the night before or morning of.

Well sometimes it's after I've already showered and we just catch each other at the right moment. I've gone to work with the scent of musk lingering about my person

 

[Booker]

I've actually told myself that 3 times a day is a good day. It means I ran in the morning and showered. Biked in the evening and showered. And well... the 3rd reason.


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[guidomerkinsrules]

I always cringe in yoga when a granola, tree-hugging hippy with dread locks and (for the women) armpit hair who ride their bikes everywhere in the 110 degree Austin summers come in and pray that they don't end up next to me. They don't believe in soap or deodorant or use 'natural' deodorants and let me tell you, they don't work.

THIS! this is who wants to be in Contact Jams all the time - imagine doing yoga where you're in physical contact with almost every part of that person
yuck

 

[Saint_Ward]

Chuck...

Motion denied. Go take a shower.

 

[superchuck500]

Also if any of you are shagging, you best be using soap on a daily. Water isn't going to cut it.

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