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    > We usually don’t bathe every day and listen to our body’s needs.
If I did this I'd need to shower every 4h :)


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> The problem is making that a regular occurrence.

Ideally you shower every two days or so.


>Showering

In some cultures it is nornal and expected to shower not just daily, but multiple times a day. Three or four being normal during summer.


> I need to shower in the morning to feel clean

Opposite here. I need to shower at night or else I feel dirty when trying to sleep in my bed.


> and failing to bathe regularly

Wait what?


Or even less often.

Daily full-body bathing is unnecessary unless you do very physically demanding or dusty/dirty work.


> Frequency: 30-60 minutes a day

30-60 minutes to take a shower?!


They generally remember to shower every so often

Oh, come on.


It’s nice to shower for a while.

But speaking of this specific line from the text, “frequency” would be “daily”, and the amount of time probably “duration” so this could perhaps be more exactly expressed as:

> Frequency and duration: 30-70 minutes a day

(Yes. Opposite order so not quite perfect either, heh.)


"showering less often"

Me too!


Some people spend about 3.5 hours showering per week.

It’s just 30 minutes a day.


> The few people who do need it every day can probably work it out for themselves.

People are much less sensitive to their own body odor than you may assume. Please default to taking a shower before you go to public places unless you have very concrete evidence otherwise.


> Not sure after three days without a shower my main concern would be how my hair looks

Yeah, the condition of my hair isn't what prompts me to shower daily. If my skin could magically be clean and pleasant (to both myself and other people), we could talk.


Why shower daily?

So you shower twice a day? My skin wouldn't approve...

> This means it's impossible to take a two-hour hot shower.

Do you actually have the habit of taking two-hour hot showers on a running shower? How incredibly wasteful would that be?


> took a shower once a month

is this a typo?


> Also I can take a shower in the middle of the day. Which is the best time.

I'm intrigued. Why is that the best time?


After 24 hours, my hair is a grease bomb. And that's the most polite thing I can say. Yup, I do indeed need to shower every day.

And honestly, I enjoy my meditative time in the shower to start my day off.


Prior posts on the topic of frequent showering:

- (flagged) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37989269

- (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5145268

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