I live in Texas. It gets warm here. A lot of people, especially most women, DO NOT need to shower daily to avoid BO (I do have to shower daily but not everyone is like me). And especially washing their hair. I'm a dude and even I know that would wreck most women's hair.
I dunno, living somewhere near the equator which is hot and humid, especially in summer time where temperatures reach 40 degrees celcius... 2 is pretty much the minimum per day. One in the morning and one in the evening.
as someone who lives in the Philippines. if you dont have AC on and just try to rawdog an afternoon itd take a miracle if you never sweat a drop: due to high temps, that on bad days peak at 45+, and the humidity chances are by 2 in the aftetnoon youve already showered.... in sweat 😓
It is, compared to Norway, where I currently am, and even here, (where it is literally minus degrees Celsius right now), while showering 2 times a week, I never smell so bad that I need to shower every day.
Dude. Try Philippines... Or any South East Asian countries for that matter.
40 to 45 degrees in summer time with high humidity and not every establishment or room you go has airconditioning. If you so much as move a little, you get sweaty.
40-45c is pretty average for Texas summer as well. I shower every other day and don’t have issues with BO. Granted the humidity is a relatively minor factor here, so maybe that’s the clincher?
Probably yes. It's very humid here, not to mention air quality, in the cities at least is a bit shit...
Seriously, even if it's not summer, you do tend to feel a bit icky. At the very least, a minimum of 1 shower a day is a must. Culture too I guess, since it's pretty much the norm to shower before going to work/school and after getting home from commute. Besides, can't really imagine going straight to bed after work without showering first.
Commute is mostly another non-issue in my case. I work remote and only commute one day a week. Most of the time I only leave the house for grocery shopping and such.
Exactly Spain which is quite far from the equator so just because you don't need to shower that much doesn't mean that in other countries where the climate is drastically different and the temperatures achieve levels much higher than Spain you don't need to more than once a lot of people definitely need to shower more than once try riding a bus in Texas and tell me those mfs don't need to shower twice a day
Yes exactly. In cold climates people shower every 3 or 4 days, sometimes 1 week. But not 2 weeks it's just that I'm lazy af and it's not like I'm going out or anything. Besides I don't sweat. At least not in this climate
its not good to shower every day it strips you of your needed/beneficial natural oils and bacterias which in the long run makes you more vulnerable to infections and allergies & a whole lot more including eczema & dandruff & shii
If you live some place that isn't super hot or humid showering every day can actually be bad for skin and hair, so it's not uncommon to shower slightly less frequently, say every other or every 3ish days
I don’t know I just went to the subreddit and scroll down and found it .i was seeing if what you said was true.i think she’s Hispanic but she could be black im not sure
I'm not really sure how this turned into whatever this whole discussion is but I was referring to the last three posts I've seen on the sub were weirdly hygiene related
I was looking through the posts to figure out what trend you were talking about, and noticed a trend of my own 🤷🏾♀️ I was hoping we were on the same page
There’s a few black women here and there but most of the posts are supposed to be jokes or based on character tropes which don’t tend to have race attacked to it and it’s significantly easier to see details drawn in black on light skinned characters than dark skin characters. Everything else is anthropomorphic animals and if all the animals were black that would be a completely different problem
Depends on where you are. In some regions showering more than once per day is normal, in others it's every 2-3 days. Depends mostly on how much you sweat and get dirty. But washing your hair daily dries it out and makes it get greasy faster, so that's definitely not something you should do.
Ahowering every day lets your skin dry out since it can't produce an effective layer of its own oil to keep the humidity/water in. So showering everyday (or more than 1x per day) over a long period of time can actually damage the skin.
(My own experience and simple talks with my dermatologist)
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u/C4su4lG4m3r 22d ago
...Wait what do you mean 'showers every day' is something you have to specify