In addition to lifestyle, skin types also play a factor in determining how often you should shower. While Dr. One thing to keep in mind if you happen to skip one too many showers, besides odor, is that thick, yellowish patches can start to form on your skin. Herrmann of showering too often. The answer: As long as it takes you to clean your body, Dr. Too much water especially hot water will dry out your skin.
Instead, use lukewarm and keep showers as short as possible. So you've got the skin on your bod covered, but what about your hair? Herrmann says this also depends on your lifestyle. So there you have it. Mystery solved. Your official excuse to add "OOD" ahem, out of doors to your cal. Become an Insider. Enter Email Address. Washing daily also just feels good. For me, there is nothing like coming out of the shower and ritualistically slathering my body in all manner of body butters and oils — especially when they're beautifully scented.
That clean feeling is so deliciously satisfying and, at least for me, has been an important part of maintaining my personal sanity.
The past year and change has been difficult for all of us. I lost my own mother in the pandemic, and have been feeling bouts of depression. To top that off, I have health-related anxiety, so you can imagine I would be pretty on edge living in a world where there is a deadly airborne pathogen, one that has predominantly killed people of color — people who look like me.
Taking showers with scented soaps, moisturizing my body with the same cocoa butter my mother used to use on me when I was a child, slipping into fresh new clothes, and then spraying myself with perfume has been one of the few pleasures I've been able to indulge in.
I'm not going anywhere or interacting with many people most days, but keeping up with this part of my normal routine has been quite comforting indeed.
Besides the self-care aspect, for the past year, the fear of getting COVID particles on me has made me take even more showers than usual. At my most cautious, I would shower right after going downstairs to my building lobby. Now, I'm able to take out the garbage without running to the shower, but if I spend more than a few minutes outside, you best believe I'm washing myself once I get back to my apartment.
No amount of hemming and hawing about my skin's microbiome which is fine, thank you very much is going to make me consider showering less regularly. And as much as I love the earth and care about things like climate change and wastefulness, taking a daily shower is a sacrifice I'm willing to make. Besides, if we're worried about wasting water, maybe take that up with large corporations rather than regular people who just, in the middle of a once-in-a-generation event, want to feel clean.
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