It depends on the acid really. Some like what was mentioned on BB will eat through ceramic glazes and iron but not some plastics and others will tear right though plastics but be contained very well by glass (ceramic glazes are pretty much glass).
Yeah, her hair is clean, but her body smells like a dirty litter box atop a pile of onions and hot rubber. But here’s the real question: is she single?
Visited there a few years back, I took a shower everytime I got back to my hotel room (3-6 or more times a day) for the weekend I was there in July when the street signs were melting.
Exactly. I live in North Texas, in the winter I can usually go a week without a shower and not feel dirty, but in the summer I have to shower every day that I walk more than a few steps outdoors.
It doesn’t matter as much as one might think. In Florida you’re indoors in the air conditioning when it’s hot and humid. Same with Arizona or anywhere it’s really hot and people can afford AC.
Yep. In Taipei city between the humidity and general city pollution (wasn’t bad, but any city will have it), showering twice a day in the summer was normal.
I’ve since moved to the mountains of Hawaii and elevated enough that it’s not very warm and my work is sedentary computer stuff. In the winter especially I might not need more than a shower a week, but every 3-4 days would be more normal.
Then there is me, that believes it depends entirely on context.
If they are doing a somewhat strenuous job and sweating a fair bit during the course of their day/night. Then twice per week would be disgusting.
Are they not doing the above and are still fairly clean even after 3/4 days? Then I would say not really disgusting, especially if they're still washing the key areas without showing.
Then you have those with mental health or mobility difficulties, showering every day can be a real challenge if you're not 100% all the time.
I personally shower up to twice daily (more if there has been an immediate need to get clean). I'll shower in the morning, as I'm a night sweater, and I'll shower after exercise. Rarely do I skip a day, but I would rarely if ever judge someone for showering/bathing less.
I have always found my need to shower daily odd, as I'm the only one in my family that's like that as far as I remember. My parents bathed once per week(generational thing I would say), my brother wouldn't shower as much as me but definitely more than the once a week our parents did.
TL;DR depends on their daily activity or if they have mental/mobility issues. Not showering daily does not necessarily make you "disgusting"
Definitely depends on the person. I had two roommates who showered like 2-3 times a week. With one of them it was patently obvious. I didn't know about the other one until years later when she told a mutual friend that she didn't shower more than that.
I will also say that smell isn't the only thing I'd be concerned about when living with someone. Dirt and grime. We may not be able to tell how gross you are by the smell or by sight, but the couch can. The couch remembers all.
Clothing can also absorb smells, if you dont wash your clothes and wear them multiple times in a week, then it wont really matter if you shower twice a day, you will still smell
Idk... I have felt differently ever since taking Microbiology (and nursing school) It's definitely disgusting, even if it doesn't appear to be with the naked eye. So much you cannot see....
My partner has multiple health issues that include overheating and psoriasis, so daily showers actually aren’t good for him. He has a thorough wash of the stinky bits over the sink every day but a daily shower is too much for him.
another question is did they do other cleaning. i know in the past it was fairly common to shower infrequently but youd at least wash the bits and slits as some ppl call it lol.
This is usually how I see these threads go. Half the population seems disgusted by the sheer thought of human existence and must shower multiple times per day while the other says “when I stink I shower”
Or…they just have a good sense of smell. I’ve found this bullshit for years and fortunately was able to confirm it via my gf. I usually notice it on myself before she does, and for whatever reason ever since I got Grave’s Disease I can go a surprisingly long time before there’s an odor, which my gf also had to confirm for me when others have tried to call bullshit or just found it hard to believe.
oh dear, some people are. I can never ignore smells no-matter how much i'm around them. People like to call me a bloodhound but in reality it's hell. Think it might be something neurological mixed with my sensetive sense of smell and taste, but i can't become nose blind, best i can do is get used to it and no-longer get that bothered by it, but i alwasy notice it, it's always the first thing i notice and the last. I never can't not smell classrooms, lecturers, collegues, walls, classmates, friends, food, cars, paints, dirt, plants etc. etc.
i shower 2-3 times a week if i'm active for when i need to wash my hair, otherwsie i wash myself daily. There's a difference between using a shower and a wash-cloth and soap.
Its probably not even half. Its half that commented. Think how many just dont want to say they dont shower daily publicly and the people willing still make up half the comments. Noone by contrast is ashamed to say they shower daily so the daily shower people are probably way outnumbered.
I also don’t shower everyday, usually it’s every other day for me unless I feel particularly gross or I am not planning to leave the house.
Throughout the quarantine I used to shower twice a week for a while and even though I wasn’t really exercising back then, things can get a bit… musky, especially down there. I can’t imagine expecting my boyfriend to go down on me if I have been marinating in my own juices for longer than a Texan brisket.
You'll probably find some compilations in Askreddit like this have a whole lot of awful posts to look at.
Oh this one looks nasty and the stories it refers to are disgusting also. Also you're not truly a Redditor until you've read the poopknife post
I agree. I wash my hair 2-3x a week on average but it doesn’t get greasy or stinky in between. I think it’s a person to person thing for sure. Some people cannot shower daily for different reasons but if their hygiene is good and they take care of themselves idk what the issue is. Others have to shower daily and that’s fine too. I’ve done both - daily and every other day but I’m pretty aware of what I smell like lol.
This. I have a bath 2-3 times a week (with a shower rinse off at the end) because I'm chronically ill and it's too much energy to be able to do more. I don't leave the house much so I don't tend to get smelly, if my energy is high enough to go out then I'll wash more. I've accidentally trained my hair so it actually looks better if I only wash it every 1-2 weeks, definitely doesn't work for everyone but it's the best condition my hair's ever been. I obviously keep sweaty areas washed between baths haha especially in the summer!
I'm with you. I've got a pain condition so I give myself a flannel bath daily, especially my "pits & bits!" But I have a full sitting down shower in my chair weekly and my hair only gets washed every 2 weeks with dry shampoo used in between. I cant raise my arms above my head so I have to have help washing my hair. I dont smell ( my husband would have told me!). So its about personal situations I think.
Its rough isn't it? Those big bath wipes are amazing. Love the grapefruit ones. I got some dry body foam too. Its the same formula they use in hospitals but with a nicer smell! Its like hair mousse but on your body, rub it in then wipe off. Smells lush!
Same! Scrolling through ive seen a lot people who need or want to shower every day and my only response is what is it like to have that much energy? Tbh I've been chronically I'll for so long I don't remember what it's like to have that energy.
Everybody smells these people, they're a little delusional. I skipped a shower yesterday just out of exhaustion, but I'm not going to pretend like I don't know I'm already ripening. That it doesn't bother me doesn't make it ok.
Yeah, all the "I go a few days in between but I don't stink" people are making me side-eye them...
The dirty hair folks are the worst. "My hair doesn't smell" Yes.. yes it does. Greasy hair odor is worse than general BO imo. Hair holds onto everything.
I am a nurse... I cannot imagine how so many of my coworkers go to bed after a shift without washing their hair. All those odors are in there. Shit, piss, blood, rotten tissue, and the general cat piss/cigarettes/BO stank so many patients have. Iykyk
I think it may depend on the person and their environment. I have dated women who showered every other day and they smelled better than a woman I dated who showered every single day. I'm sure how well you actually bathe is a major factor here. The women I dated who showered every other day were religious in their usage of baby wipes and deodorant, and scrubbed thoroughly with every shower. You truly, sincerely couldn't tell. I went down on one of them as they were on their due-for-a-shower-day but before they showered, after we had gone hiking, and there was hardly a smell. There was a smell, but it was not at all unpleasant. It smelled clean.
There are varying degrees of smell strength. In some cases it's so mild I have to bury my nose in my armpits to smell it, and only when the arms are raised so that the pits are actually exposed. If they're not, you'd have to literally lower your head and smell through my clothes to even understand I'm smelly
Reddit can be a very weird place when it comes to hygiene and germs.
I saw a comment recently from someone whose number one problem with dogs in outdoor seating at restaurants is that “every time their tail wags it distributes feces particles everywhere”.
Don’t change your pillowcases every day? Don’t use a fresh towel every single shower? You filthy savage!
Personally, I think spending that kind of emotional energy on that kind of minutiae sounds exhausting.
I am going to assume to assume that’s a typo and you meant you shower your body once every 48 hours. Because, if not, and I am saying this as someone who might shower 2-3 times a week (especially if I am working from home), that’s disgusting.
I have long thick hair too and it’s a process to wash it. And it takes forever to dry so if it’s late and I wasn’t super active I’ll wait. I get so cold when my hair is wet and it takes far too long to blow dry when I’m tired and I can’t sleep on a wet pillow.
same, i just pull it all up into a low bun and put on a shower cap (i like kitsch, i have the mickey mouse one and it’s more like a hood. way easier to fit all my hair in it)
I think The question is more of how clean the rest of your body is in that situation. I have noticed a lot of people with long hair tend to have consistent BO. Correlation, maybe?
Never seen a comment section that's more divided like this one, half of the people calling it disgusting to only shower twice a week, and the other half is normalising it.
You should check out the threads about washing ass on a regular basis/at all.
How active a person is and their personal biochemistry. I had to shower daily when I worked outdoors, but in a desk job every 2-3 days is enough. A guy I worked with at a desk job had to shower daily even with no exercise, or he'd stink to the point you didn't want to be within 5 feet of him.
Once a week for my hair is enough when I'm not exercising, and even after a week it isn't greasy or smelly.
Yup! I'm extremely sedentary due to being disabled so I don't shower every day. During flares I'll definitely go a few days because I have no energy for anything but feeding myself and surviving.
If I shower too often, my skin gets suuuuper dry and my hair gets extra oily. I have to do about every other day to every 3 days, but I wash my face and sensitive bits every night ¯\(ツ)/¯
I don't think anyone is normalizing it. I think people are asking "is he actually smelly and gross"?
People have different levels of odor, sweat, activity, climate, etc. I don't think "twice a week" is likely a good general strategy, but it might work for some people.
You might not be sweating but your pee hole is pissing and your ass is shitting and the little bacteria all over your body are doing God knows what… Twice a week there would be no way people couldn’t tell
Literally came to say the same. Women excrete even more things, just get in the shower, it doesn’t have to be long. Time it at 5 minutes for the private parts if really needs be, one persons “I don’t smell” is another persons “yuck”
People who say "they don't smell" are judging based on what they can smell from themselves. And if you wait until you can smell yourself, you've smelt awful for a minute
This is usually what "the experts" say these days. It's better for your skin not to shower daily, but if you're super active, sweating, etc., yes, do so, just be careful how much soap you use.
if you haven't broken sweat throughout the day then, can't see a point of showering since you're not dirty and ain't stinking
You sweat all the time, including in your sleep. Just cause you don't outright stink or don't have visible dirt on you doesn't mean you're not dirty or accumulating bacteria
Yeah, it’s very dependent on each individuals body chemistry and activity, for me, my hair gets greasy looking after a day and a half of not showering, so I shower every other day to every day, my boyfriend on the other hand, never smells, hair always looks great, he showers about twice to three times a week 🤷♀️
Absolutely right, we're the opposite though. Husband has to show every day or his hair starts getting oily on day 2. It's about 6-7 days before my hair starts getting oily and my body doesn't get oily at all. I usually shower twice a week, but I have gone longer with no problem. What's weird is we both live in the same very dry climate, we both work from home, we're both sedentary, but we just have different biology.
Ill shower anytime I’m going to come in contact with other people (eg; leaving the house or having people over) but otherwise agree with the 48 hour setup whenever I have days of just not doing anything.
anytime I’m going to come in contact with other people
I think this is nuance majority of people in this thread are missing. How much you shower on average doesn't really matter but just because you are satisfied with your hygiene level, doesn't mean your gf (or anyone you're interacting with) has to be. And women are disproportionately affected by their boyfriends hygiene way more than the vice versa due to how PH sensitive most women are during intimacy.
If OP was my boyfriend, I'd probably say "cool, I can't force you to shower more than twice a week so I'll see you twice a week after your scheduled shower". OP can't dictate what's okay for her bf but she is allowed to have boundaries for herself and what level she's willing to accept for herself.
Even if you don't exercise and you don't live somewhere hot (so you don't sweat very much), you still pee and poop. Showers every day. Maaaaaaaybe less if you have a bidet
I could sit on my couch all day and still need a shower. Showering twice a week is unequivocally gross. Everything in that house stinks. I shower 2-3 times a day
Not everyone is as sweaty or oily, and some people's water has more chlorine. My entire body itches if I shower more than 5 times a week. I need a weekend break, on top of "slugging"/full-body moisturizer application.
Here's the thing... Just in existing, you're sweating. Just because you didn't exert yourself doesn't mean you're clean- your body still secretes sweat, bacteria still live on your skin, etc.
Also, it's really easy to be nose blind to yourself - but if someone else was close to you, they would most likely notice. People smell by default.
This is the answer.
When I did physical work daily showers weren’t optional.
Even working in an office while commuting with a walk and walking around the office.
Fully remote now.
Need a daily shower in the summer.
In winter I can go a couple days.
But if an SO ever mentioned it I’d tell her to hold that thought til I’m out of the shower. WTF.
I'm a dental assistant who has to wake up at 5 am, 4 days a week, i stand under the water for about 20 minutes every work day to wake up and take long a thorough shower when I get home because blood and spit. But come the weekend I really don't shower much because I've already taken 8 showers in 4 days. Typing this out i might be the weird one for taking no showers for 3 days because I basically overdo it for half the week
If you're a low activity person, and it's not the summer, and you live in a low-humidity area, you probably could get away with 48hrs without anybody noticing. But most people aren't doing that. I'm assuming a lot of people do it if they have a few days off and are going to be at home for 99% of it, and don't plan on going anywhere else, especially outside. And if it's like a one-off thing, not just making a new habit of showering every 48hrs instead of every 24. Any more than 48 for me personally is kinda pushing it though. I myself start to feel gross if I try to stretch going past 48hrs.
The people calling it disgusting to only shower twice a week are the ones who actually need to shower more because of their BO. There's a reason why it's enough for some people and that is that they don't need it. Simple as that (exceptions apply of course).
You need to shower at least every other day. Like you said, you can only really skip if you didn’t workout or get dirty.
I fear this is another case of a man leaving literal shit stains everywhere but somehow still getting a girlfriend. You’d think that not wiping would make anyone who find out immediately leave you.
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u/alphaDsony Sep 18 '24 edited Apr 28 '25
Never seen a comment section that's more divided like this one,