You’re Showering Too Much

Please. Most people don't shower enough.

Right now I’m not showering daily so I guess I’m doing what she says 😂

I'm with the dermatologist. Too many Americans (and Brazilians worse) shower (or say that they do) more often than I have a proper meal in a day. Unless you're doing something uncommonly filthy, once should be more than sufficient for most people.

When I quit shampooing my hair every day, the overall appearance and health of my hair seemed to improve drastically over time. Now I only shampoo it once per week. I wash/rinse it every day at least once, but only use soap once per week. What a difference.

Twenty years ago I was having constant skin problems, not only severe dryness and itching but also constant rashes. My doctor finally referred me to a dermatologist, and after examining me, the first thing he asked was how I often I showered.

I told him a long hot shower every day. He told me to take a short lukewarm shower every 2 or 3 days and all I needed to lather up were my pits, my groin, my butthole and my feet. He also told me to switch to a fragrance free soap. He said if I didn't feel clean to use a washrag to do a bird bath at the sink on the days between showers.

All my problems, which had been severe, were gone in about 10 days.

R5 I will avoid the blow in the gay men on your derm’a patient roster. I like dick and ass to be super clean

Damn I typed like a beginning ESL student. I’ll avoid blowing the gay men on that doctor’s roster.

OP, are you Nan Michiganwomyn?

Also, I used to work at Whole Foods back in the day. I walked into the Body Care department one day because I was out of soap for my face and asked the hippie-dippie skin guru what I should buy. He said "not soap", and explained that I needed to stop using any kind of lathering/soap/cleanser on my face altogether because it dries out the skin, pulls out natural oils, and makes the skin unbalanced, causing the need for MORE PRODUCTS.

He had me stop using soap entirely on my face. Use warm water to wash the face gently, and then after a shower or bath or face "rinsing", to apply a dime-sized dot of Jojoba oil to my face every day.

For about a week, I had a few pimples, and he said that was just the skin "evening out" and getting rid of toxins. And after that, I'll say my skin never felt better.

It's now been almost 20 years and while I definitely could do more to take care of my face, I'm convinced I'm aging more slowly than some of my friends because of this practice.

R9 I wonder if the same applies to women as well. I don’t wear make up and lately just splash my face with water every day and then washing every 2 days since I’m at home all the time Then I use a facial moisturizer like oil of Olay.

R9 that’s true, never use soap on your face, just water unless it’s filthy dirty.

I knew that hygiene was a bad idea!

Clearly these reports and studies were NOT conducted in FLORIDA during the SUMMER.

Anyone not showering daily during a Florida summer should not be allowed in public places and should be ticketed and fined if they do insist on strolling the aisles of stores leaving wafts of their stench behind.

At the very least, get some Hibiclens (Walgreens/CVS/Target) and wipe down your pits, private parts and under any skin folds. Thank you in advance.

Agree with R13, Florida and ESPECIALLY uncut men such as myself. There’s no way I could go more than a day without sleeve stank.

I haven’t showered in weeks but I know it’s not healthy. Due to depression/anxiety/self-esteem issues and my foot/leg being injured (in pain, uncomfortable when I take my boot off) I dread taking a shower. I know I stink (especially my feet/pits) but I can’t get myself to take a shower.

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Can you get some baby wipes and/or Hibiclens? You will feel better just taking care of the pits/privates/feet and you can use these sitting down, watching tv...

Shower, wash the bits and once a week get the rest of it.

Please stop talking about bits. There are children on this site.

That's why homeless people have gorgeous skin and hair!

Something no one will ever accuse the French of doing. They refuse to shower even in quarantine.

I am totally with R13 and R14. I live in South Florida now, coming from New York City. The portal to Satan’s lair is cooler than it is here right now. One, sometimes two showers a day. No skin issues.

I shower about once a week but do the “whore’s bath (bits) daily. My skin never looked better. However I don’t sweat much even with a strenuous workout.

[quote]Clearly these reports and studies were NOT conducted in FLORIDA during the SUMMER. Anyone not showering daily during a Florida summer should not be allowed in public places and should be ticketed and fined if they do insist on strolling the aisles of stores leaving wafts of their stench behind.

Thank you r13

In Florida, you can get drenched with sweat just walking from your air conditioned car to your air conditioned destination. If you exercise in your air conditioned gym, the A/C wont stop you from sweating from practically every pore. Sometimes in late afternoon, it gets so hot, you still get sweaty inside w/AC.

So bathing once a day with a scrub brush is a necessity for me. Super strength deodorant. IMO, you can only wear clothes once during the summer. I wash my face in morning with the Clarisonic brush, avoid moisturizer and used powder-based makeup. At night I again wash my face with a scrub consisting of mild moisturizing cleanser and baking soda. I sleep in a room so cold that my friends call Regan's room.

No dry skin. The sweat is nature's moisturizer.

I've also moved to shampooing and soap up completely once a week, I don't really see much of a change but I never had many problems to begin with.

I am also showering less. Depression and isolation. Horrible and I don't care about my skin. I enjoy being clean.

R23 - Truth!

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