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Originally Posted by Tru_Butterfly
I can understand Shattered's point of view as far as 'when it's important.' but basic hygiene is a must regardless of illness. For safety reasons, not bathing can harvest alot of bacteria and yeast on the body, why do you think there's an odor?
Ok if you don't shower daily and your fine with that, cool. I'm no professional but, I would say that a min. of 3-4 showers a week is still 'healthy.'
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Not meaning to go too off-topic, but I think there are a lot of misunderstandings about hygiene. Keeping your hands fairly clean is important, since you touch your face, food maybe and so on. But showering or bathing your whole body, no one did that 50 years ago. And they weren't sick from it.
Even when I was a kid in the 70s, you didn't bath more than once or twice a week. Between you washed your face, hands, pits. You always washed in the morning. Today people would think this was disgusting.
I'm not saying that to discourage anyone from showering every day if they feel it is important, but you don't need that for plain health reasons. On the contrary, the hygiene hypothesis pretty much includes that parents make their kids too clean so they develop allergies.
I think somehow making it a habit is important. The more we think about things the harder they get. Doing it the same every time might help. I don't know.
All I know is that I hate getting wet and that a rabbit lives in my bathroom!
