It's not that straightforward I don't think. I rinse off before and after the hot tub, and after a run, but I only shower with soap and shampoo 1-2x per week. So am I 10x or am I 50x?
Poll: How often do you bathe?
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#32i feel like this scale should have been logarithmic
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#33You shower at night — so your bed doesn’t become a biohazard from all the filth you dragged home from being out in the world (and so maybe your partner will actually want to get dirty with you). Then again in the morning — to wake up (and wash off last night’s sins). And of course after the gym — so you don’t walk around smelling like a teenager. This is all basic hygiene, not advanced calculus.
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#34I think it's hard to draw conclusions from this level of data without being able to correlate with daily levels and degrees of social contact and intimacy, regional climate and weather, activity levels and exercise, and so on.
Or GitHub repo stars
Or degree of affinity to GNU principles
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#35Surprised to so many people showering more than once per day. For people that do that, is that due to morning showers coupled with post-activity shower?
Hot summer day (35-40c) with time outside means that an extra shower to rinse off is very nice, and sometimes a third shower before bed to rinse off and get cool is comfortable. Usually that's excessive though.
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#36Surprised to so many people showering more than once per day. For people that do that, is that due to morning showers coupled with post-activity shower?
And one before going to bed. For Brazilians, ~60 times per month might be the lower end.
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#37I don't mean this as flamebait but my pet theory is that showering and washing your hands is the 1800s version of wearing covid masks (except it stuck around as a permanent feature). It's more of a public safety thing you do for other people than for yourself and doing it twice a day is probably way excessive. It's probably closer to once every two days or less depending on how easily you generate body odor.
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#38Most of the year, I shower 2-3 times a week, but I wash myself with a washcloth on the non-shower days before going to bed. It's faster, cheaper, better for the environment, and probably better for my skin.
However, in the really hot weeks of the summer (we don't have that many of those here), I shower daily, sometimes even two times a day.
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#39For anyone interested in the over use of soap (and other chemicals), this book from a clinical/practicing dermatologist (and medical prof) is worth checking out:
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#40This should include full remote status, I do shave some days because I'm home and I only go out that day to walk in the mountains. Something I would not do when I had work in office.