As long as people aren’t keeping you at arms length, telling you that you stink, and your skin and hair is healthy, people should shower as they see fit.
You should shower twice a day at least. Once in the morning to wash of the stink of the night, and before bed to wash off the stink of the day.
It’s really not a binary choice.
Shower at night for yourself, shower in the morning for other people.
There seems to be a misconception that showering at night, getting into a clean bed and waking means you’re still clean… The truth is the majority of odours and filth come from you. Sweat, dead skin, other stuff…
These posts are always positioned as a binary, even when you can do both, and there’s some nuance to it all.
Like, do you brush your teeth in the morning or at night?
But you haven’t eaten anything in the night, right?
That’s the logic on display here.
I don’t brush my teeth after sleeping, either. After breakfast, sure, but first thing in the am? Why?
Because your body naturally produces things you need to clean, it’s like 75% of the reason you do it. Eating stuff just speeds up the production of bacteria. Give your breath a smell as you wake up in the morning before you eat anything, it reeks.
You should brush your teeth in the morning whether you eat breakfast or not.
I eat dinner though
After you go to bed?
It’s reasonable for most people to hit the Carlin-4 twice a day. If not for social reasons, then for health and hygiene.
Dentists say we ought to brush twice a day, morning and night. My dentist once told me that if I’m only going to brush once a day, then it should be at night. You don’t produce as much saliva while sleeping as you do while awake, and that create a better environment for the bacteria that cause tooth decay. Brushing at night removes the tiny food particles the bacteria feed on, reducing the likelihood of developing tooth decay and gingivitis.
We then brush again in the morning because the lack of flowing saliva overnight causes a buildup of other bacteria that feeds on mucus, which is the cause of “morning breath”.
Right? And I’ve been saying that at night, whilst you sleep, a similar process happens all over your body.
Sweat, dead cells, farting under the duvet.
That’s why we shower in the morning too.
Bed time isn’t a magical clean stasis. Biological processes happen. People seem to miss that in this weird debate.
The point being that you are going to bed with a day full of activity/dirt/sweat/stank.
ITT lots of sweaty sleepers spending 10 hours sleeping in a puddle of sweat and grease. I’d need a morning shower too if I was like that.
Normal people that are not covered in 10 hours of sweat when they wake up probably don’t need a morning shower and trying to say that sleeping (without the copious amounts of sweat of you veritable faucets)is the same as spending 16+ hours moving and working and being around other people is really delusional. And what adult is getting 10+ hours of sleep on the regular? Y’all either live in some major privilege or don’t have hobbies.
You people shower daily?
Cool. Cool. Cool.
People are so weird about germs.
Yes, they don’t exist. Have you ever seen a germ? NO! Hence, they’re not real. People are just weird.
Just shower twice, what are you? french?
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I cannot stand going to bed dirty. I always shower before bed. And if my day went poorly, and sometimes it did, fresh clothes and multiple showers during the day. But only once did I ever burn a set of clothes.
This is how most normal people feel. These threads are like the “stand to wipe” “debate” where it’s only a debate among a certain subset of very online people.
50 years of my body being trained to wake up with a shower means never taking one before bed if I actually want to fall asleep. Rare exceptions are made as needed. Sheets get washed and changed several times a week.
Yeah, I also look that dirty after a day at my desk at work and watching TV at my home.
It’s reasonable for most people to hit the Carlin-4 twice a day. If not for social reasons, then for health and hygiene.
When i wake up, if i had a shower tthr night before, my hair is all rough and greasy and i need to shower again in the morning. So its more efficient to just shower in the morning. Saves water and electricity too.
You might need to wash your pillow.
As someone who inherited my German ancestors greasy ass hair, let me tell you it doesn’t help. I’ll take it over the dry but relatively brittle hair of my Scottish and Irish ancestors, still got the rusty red color and wavyness from em though piss easy to maintain.
That’s fair. I was wondering because I have fine hair that gets greasy fast, but for some reason using a silk pillow case and washing it every few days (both my hair and the pillow case) has helped immensely.
WTF kind of foods are you eating? Waking up with greasy hair after you just took a shower??
What you eat has very little to do with hair texture
Hair texture is an entirely different thing than hair GREASE.
I shower in the morning before bed cuz I’m a 3rd shifter.
Wash my hands and face and brush hair before going to bed.
Go to the bathroom in the AM and then shower.Right? People are so fucking weird, like they never heard about washing oneself in the sink…?
A bunch of the morning people are acting like the inverse isn’t possible either.
Yeah, I also don’t get much sleep.
Night showers waking up:
What did you do all night in your sleep to make you that nasty?
Sweating… 🤮
Use fewer blankets?
Some people have slimy sweaty sex in mud pits all night.
What you eating at night that means you have to brush your teeth in the morning?
Breakfast
You eat breakfast before you get out of bed?
ITT lotsa people who have never been made aware of “morning breath”
Neither of your points in either of your threads makes sense. Do you brush your teeth before getting out of bed? Do you shower before getting out of bed?
I think you are deliberately misunderstanding the point.
My point is that even without breakfast, you should brush your teeth before going out into the world.
Morning breath is a thing, right? And so is night sweat and lying for 8 hours (if you are lucky) cocooned with all the gas you pass.
So, to make it really simple… You brush your teeth for morning breath, right? You should shower for morning body.
No deliberate misunderstanding here, your point just wasn’t very clear.
I mostly agree with you, btw. I brush my teeth twice a day, morning and night. I shower when I feel like I need a shower. Sometimes that’s morning, sometimes that’s night. I don’t get night sweats every time I go to sleep.
Or don’t. I’m not your boss and don’t really care what people smell of you.
Just don’t sit next to me on the bus in the morning.
