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Gonna show my ass on this one but I shower once a week, it's bad I know, it doesn't help that the hot water is busted in the house when I turn it on the pressure is low in my place.
I was waiting for someone to volunteer how little they shower. I know y'all nasty.
I know I will do better. I do wear deodorant.
if i had no hot water and low pressure id be the same way and probably worse. used to shower every day but its gotten harder for me to do so, and thats with me having creature comforts
If someone doesn't work a physical job I don't think they need to shower every day. Then beyond that some people don't sweat or stink as much. It's fine
i've found every 2 days for me unless i do something to get sweaty/dirty or have an event or something
every day tends to mess with my skin
I cover my skin in fibreglass as my day job so i shower every day and on the weekend I'll only do a freshening up if i need it
I have a similar cadence, usually about a week. Reducing from daily showering (or multiple a day when I biked to work) has been a game changer for my hair and skin tbh.
I generally just shower when its needed vs a specific cadence. That could mean daily showers in the summer during heat waves but generally once a week works really well for me.
You shouldn't wash your hair every time you shower anyway. I shower 2-3 times per week but only wash my hair once per week. Any more and it gets too dry and lifeless. I just rinse it well on days I don't wash it.
I noticed the exact same thing with my skin.
Same.
I really do think our skin microbiome (it's not just in our gut!) tends to find a good balance if given the chance to do so. People who shower every day or more have a skin biome that is used to getting purged on the regular and will start getting out of control as soon that rhythm is broken, which makes the person stink. Then that person thinks that's just a straight fact "if people don't shower often, they stink!" But as usual, it's more complicated than that.
@SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net, don't let anyone tell you you're "nasty" for not showering more often, you just have a healthier skin microbiome than they do.
Thanks, that does make me feel a bit better!
(Only replace the floating hearts with stinky waves. j/k ;)
lol but you're right tho I do not smell most of the time, there's days I do have bo from my pits so I lather up in deodorant. Since I'm home and not doing anything taxing on my body, it's kind of a waste to hop in the shower for nothing. Now granted if I need to be out in public the next day I usually do.
Literally same. It takes at least several days for me to start becoming a little odiferous, even if I've been doing some light physical work. But everyone has some odor to them, as they should, since it is of course natural and healthy. Hell, it is even one of the things that has attracted people to each other throughout the ages. As has been said, capitalism latched onto that as it does everything else that makes us human, and told us we had to buy products to attract people with scent, and then buy products just to keep from offending people by our scent!
I'm not around people much anymore I admit, so it usually doesn't matter either way, (but even when I did live with a partner and only showered 1-2 x / week, I was never told I needed to take one). But when I do have to go out like to run errands in town, that is when I make sure I'm cleaned up, meaning a shower beforehand.
yes in the summer I do shower more often due to the heat, but in the colder months it's about once a week. I guess my skin is pretty soft? What little hair I have left on my head is soft too, I guess.