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Interesting article here. I figure I'm doing it just fine.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/21/i-wash-my-hands-and-genitals-the-rest-i-gave-up-how-the-pandemic-changed-our-hygiene-habits

Permanut
(7,191 posts)Whether I need one or not.
CTyankee
(66,412 posts)
WestMichRad
(2,355 posts)whether I need it or not, but your schedule makes more sense. I hate to waste water!
Permanut
(7,191 posts)Marie Marie
(10,248 posts)Hey, I want to look and smell good for all of you.
CTyankee
(66,412 posts)and I thank you for that...
True Dough
(23,421 posts)Is it Maison Margiela? Or Marlies Moller, Marie Marie?
(Just going for a little alliteration there.)
Marie Marie
(10,248 posts)


purple_haze
(182 posts)Usually twice a day. If I hit the gym extra hard or swim, then three times a day.
synni
(411 posts)Therefore, I shower every day.
I really don't like putting it off until my skin feels as if it's coated with Elmer's Glue-All.
Marthe48
(20,943 posts)more often if I need to. Hands and face every day.
I may rethink my schedule. Why is deodorant so expensive!!!!
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,193 posts)that gross Lume woman made it a thing.
Marie Marie
(10,248 posts)Just me???
hlthe2b
(110,373 posts)Working out--especially outdoors each day?
Geebus, in summer I could probably do so multiple times/day if I'm active, wearing mosquito repellent when I go out, and if the A/C is minimally active. But, I do try not to wash my hair as much as I once did--at most every other day. And I don't disagree with the article recommendations... Most people just need to pay attention to the "sweaty" parts of their bodies, rather than a full shower, at least SOME of the time.
And in winter? Less.
That said, clean clothing is everything... Nothing worse than "stale, sweaty clothing"...
Oh, and for my least favorite TV $$$ grifter/"OB/GYN" Dr. Shannon Klingman (creator of "Lume"/"Mando" ), will you kindly just take a damned shower at least occasionally? No one needs your crap products and all the damned plastic packaging you are shoving down their direction 24/7. (And to my colleagues who all but ran her out of her last professional conference for pushing that grifting bullshit, THANK YOU!)
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,193 posts)I can't stand her!
Not only does she list every stinky body part she mimics putting the lume on! I always mute her, she makes me want to barf!
Paladin
(30,834 posts)On those infrequent occasions where there's an evening event, I'll take a second shower in the afternoon.
3catwoman3
(26,933 posts)I loathe feeling sticky.
True Dough
(23,421 posts)and I always behave myself in there because this is my shower curtain:
CTyankee
(66,412 posts)LogDog75
(537 posts)Unless I do something that gets me sweaty.
PlanetBev
(4,347 posts)Regarding the constant stink propaganda that Lume woman beats us over the head with, she said
If you get close enough to me to smell my ass, thats your problem.
Oeditpus Rex
(41,877 posts)Healthy humans do not emit such a repellant aroma as to require scrubbing thrir skin with soap every morning, nor especially to spray or smear certain areas of it with chemicals.
The term "B.O." was invented in the 1920s or '30s by an ad agency working for Lever Btothers, makers of Lifebuoy, "The 24-hour deodorant soap." The ad campaign was wildly successful. Almost overnight, Americans were convinced they stank to high heaven if they didn't wash daily with Lifebuoy. (Even Bugs Bunny cartoons often parodied the "Beeee-ohhhh" from radio ads pfor the soap, and Jon Lord of Deep Purple elicited that sound from his Hammond B-3 organ during "Space Truckin'," captured live on the band's album "Made In Japan" some 35 years later.)
To be sure, some people are malodorous: those who work in moderate-to-heavy physical labor under unclean conditions (normal human sweat does not smell bad; indeed, it's part of the natural attraction during sexual arousal), those with glandular maladies and those who simply cannot or do not bathe for long periods of time, such as the unhoused. And, many others just like to "feel clean" and/or believe they'd "o-fend," to quote another old radio ad for a deodorant product, if they didn't wash away and prevent "the funk" every morning.
If it makes you feel better, shower as often as you want. But, under normal circumstances, daily use of deodorant products simply isn't biologically necessary.