You shower once every how many days?

financialwar on 01/07/2015 - 18:08
Last edited 01/07/2015 - 19:20 by 1 other user

I shower every two days in summer and every three days in winter. Shower every day is just a waste of water and time, and it's not good for your skin.

What about you?

As you can see from the graph, China and Japan how the lowest shower rate, Japanese people are known for their good hygiene and lack of smell, yet they don't need as much showers as Australians.

http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o615/FinancialWar/b783e2…

source: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/how-often-…

Mod: Removed irrelevant stereotyping information.

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    every 2 days
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  • nocure on 01/07/2015 - 18:15
    +51

    R u kidding me…your brave posting that.

      • zolinger on 01/07/2015 - 18:45
        +1

        He doesnt rep all east asians

      • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2015 - 21:36
        +15

        If only you were as particular about your personal hygiene as your spelling o_O

      • secondstory on 01/07/2015 - 22:01
        +3

        OP's brave was posting that.

  • aggregate on 01/07/2015 - 18:21
    +24

    3 times a day. Before I sleep, after I wake up and after a workout.

  • retiredfeline on 01/07/2015 - 18:22
    +1

    Shower, wassat? ;)

    • scrimshaw on 01/07/2015 - 18:34
      +59

      I shake myself rigorously until the surface of my body heats up from the friction of the surrounding air and causes the debris of my skin to burn up, like the ablative surface of a space shuttle in re-entry.

  • dylanando on 01/07/2015 - 18:28
    +11

    Gross.. Do you not leave your house? Couldnt think of anything better than getting into bed after a nice hot shower!

    • Colombian on 01/07/2015 - 18:52

      or cold? I like that one :)

  • chipstss on 01/07/2015 - 18:29
    +52

    Everyday, I'd rather not smell like jizz.

    • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2015 - 19:10
      +30

      So you are covered with jizz every day?

      • mskeggs on 01/07/2015 - 20:07
        +34

        Good times to be had at chipstss place.

  • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2015 - 18:54
    +29

    Reverse racist troll post? Triple combo.

    • Squiglymo on 01/07/2015 - 19:02
      +1

      this made me lol. +300

  • djones145 on 01/07/2015 - 18:55
    +7

    do you lift bro?

    cause if you do you need to shower!

    Japanese also shower less cause they are working prolly 20 hours a day and don't have time to shower o.O

    • scrimshaw on 01/07/2015 - 18:59
      +1

      Actually while I was in a co-ed boarding school I knew this Japanese international student who was bullied because she regularly skipped showers in the winter months.

      Dunno why they do that, maybe because they need to save water back home? They have one of the best water sanitation and conservation strategies in the world though, not sure if skipping baths and showers is part of it.

      • Grent on 01/07/2015 - 22:38
        +15

        They don't shower, because they have a bath every day.

  • xyron on 01/07/2015 - 18:56
    +2

    Question should read "how many times do you shower per day", not the other way around.

    3 days without a shower, (profanity) gross. You realise your skin sheds and flakes even if you don't sweat, right?

    • nocure on 01/07/2015 - 20:08

      Needs to be put back on his L plates

  • iridiumstem on 01/07/2015 - 18:59
    +2

    The data looks as dodgy as, sample is too small (definitely for China and perhaps for Japan at least), etc etc. Just saying.

    • chumbucket on 01/07/2015 - 19:20
      +3

      Well, seeing as 16% of those surveyed also said their ideal women did not shave their legs, i think that the sample data might have had a few trolls in it also

  • mick123 on 01/07/2015 - 18:59
    +4

    Brazil one seems very high. From my experience with content available on the internet, I think a lot of the women got confused with golden showers

  • chumbucket on 01/07/2015 - 19:03
    +22

    Ugh, one of those 'I don't smell' people.
    Do the rest of the population who has all 5 senses working and actually take care of your personal hygiene.
    There's nothing worse than getting on a bus or having to work with someone and having to fight bile rising in the back of your throat because they don't take appropriate steps.

    Even the smell issue aside (there are people who don't have the smell gene in armpits) the skin cells you shed and bacteria youre exposed to on a daily basis makes you a walking petri dish.

    As for your comment on how showering every day isnt good for your skin, as long as youre not washing yourself in bleach i think you'll survive. We all do somehow.

    • iridiumstem on 01/07/2015 - 19:47
      +9

      Depends on people, I was told to reduce the number of shower I take by the GP and a dermatologist.

  • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2015 - 19:07
    +2

    Two to four times a day.
    I will shower (rinse) after running, cycling, etc.

    If I didn't do any sports, then it would be once a day.

  • Silicon Wizardry on 01/07/2015 - 19:29
    +33

    It has nothing to do with hygiene - most east Asian people do not have a functional ABCC11 gene. As a result, they do not excrete particular precursor molecules that are turned (by bacteria in the underarm) into the thiols that are responsible for the majority of body odour. That mutation also results in dry, rather than wet, ear wax.

    It's a fascinating topic and there is a lot out there on it - eee e.g.: A functional ABCC11 allele is essential in the biochemical formation of human axillary odor - J Invest Dermatol. 2010 Feb;130(2):529-40. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19710689

    • zappy32 on 01/07/2015 - 20:46
      +7

      I remember reading an article on this. Basically, if you want to know which type of gene you have you can check using your ear wax. Wet earwax = your sweat smells and should shower everyday to be nice to those around you! Always dry earwax = you can probably skip a a day and no one would notice.

  • djmatt24 on 01/07/2015 - 19:36
    -4

    Shower every day is just a waste of water and time, and it's not good for your skin.

    This is a myth. There's no way washing dirt, bacteria and dead skin from your body daily is a bad thing.

    • iridiumstem on 01/07/2015 - 19:44
      +26

      Nah, dermatologists recommended me to not shower as often because it does make the skin dry and that can cause problems on its own (i.e. flaky skins etc). More precisely, what he said was, if you don't need to shower, like if you are not leaving the house or not really dirty, you don't need to shower out of routine because that makes your skin dry and that can cause problems (he was talking to me, so it was directed to me). Heard it from at least 1 dermatologist and a GP, so it's probably reasonable.

        • iridiumstem on 01/07/2015 - 22:42
          +22

          Why would I need to make an excuse in front of someone or some people who I don't even know?

  • mehow on 01/07/2015 - 19:49

    I think it depends on how much body hair one has. Asians tend to be less hairy in general hence why they can get away with showering less.

  • JarrydF on 01/07/2015 - 19:52
    +1

    At least once a day.

    There are a lot of smelly people out there!

  • barginsarelife on 01/07/2015 - 20:01
    +1

    Every 3 days…

  • infinite on 01/07/2015 - 20:06
    +1

    What kind of filthbag doesn't shower once a day? C'mon people………..

  • mskeggs on 01/07/2015 - 20:12
    +1

    Sometimes I'll go three days without a shower when out camping, but I still clean up key areas with a wet wash cloth. When I pick up my camping clothes after I get out of the shower on my return I can't believe the pong. Don't believe you aren't smelling bad!
    A quick wash every day (4 mins is plenty) is good for your friends and neighbours.

  • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2015 - 20:31
    +2

    I shower at least 2 times a day :O
    I'm dirty.

  • True Bargains on 01/07/2015 - 20:44
    +1

    You reminded me of this article a few months ago. Totally ruined the Swedish blonde stereotype for me with this line …. "while in Sweden less than 50 per cent of women bother with a daily wash."

    http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/how-often-should-we-s…

    • zappy32 on 01/07/2015 - 20:52
      +2

      As above, I'm not sure if it's true also for Swedes but I found out about the 'smelly sweat gene' as a Swedish friend of mine does not have this functioning gene, she can go for a run and be covered in sweat but not smell at all.

      A lot of them also don't shave their underarm hair which is a whole other conversation!

  • ExPrinceHairy on 01/07/2015 - 20:56
    +11

    I shower only when the weather forecasts are for showers.

  • Diji1 on 01/07/2015 - 21:10
    -6

    it's not good for your skin.

    BS. (unless possibly you use super hot water I guess)

    I'll tell you what actually isn't good for your skin: letting various pollutants that we encounter in everyday life stay on your skin. In fact the best thing you can do if you want to remain young looking is wash your face twice a day with a ph balanced cleanser for this very reason. Any Dove soap works as well as anything else. Cleaning your face is the most important thing you can do to preserve a youthful face.

    I shower 2 - 3 times a day. Girls tell me they notice that I am always, always spotlessly clean … I look at it as bypassing knee-jerk reactions.

  • Manh on 01/07/2015 - 21:11
    +2

    78 vs 3 vs 3. Woah, they're starting to come out of the woodworks now LOL.

  • financialwar on 01/07/2015 - 21:21
    -1

    Mod removed my "irrelevant stereotyping information". How is amount of sweat not relevant to the need for shower? They are direct causation relationship.

    • iridiumstem on 01/07/2015 - 21:29
      +2

      Unless you are giving a scientific proof or at least some sort of data, it's a speculation at best. Especially if you try to give something a correlation, it can go bad so easily (i.e. you might be simply making a mistake based on your peers and observations, memory/ingroup outgroup processing, etc etc).

        • iridiumstem on 01/07/2015 - 22:19
          +2

          OK, let's read into the paper.

          1. The article you are referring to was posted after you've posted your post.

          2. The article do not talk about the generation of overall odor from generation of sweat per se, but rather odor generation from certain parts of the body, as apocrine sweat gland is located in certain parts of the body. More specifically, precursors to the chemicals that attribute to odor that are generated in the apocrine sweat gland.

          More specifically, ABCC11 allele and how it relates to the production of precursors that attribute to the smell. What you've mentioned, which went along the line of "White people sweat more" was not discussed in the article you've mentioned.

          Not to beat the dead horse, it does not necessarily mean that all Asians will smell less or the other way (1. it affects the precursors to the odor 2. it needs to be processed by bacteria).

        • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2015 - 22:50
          +3

          @financialwar:

          Interesting line of thinking you have going on here. I think someone else spouted similar amounts of racist bullshit and made up facts just before WW2.

        • financialwar on 01/07/2015 - 22:53
          -5

          @thorton82:

          I know, it's extremely offensive use the term Asians to generalise such vast territory and genetically and culturally different people. And then use it to say that East Asians swell the same as other Asians.

        • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2015 - 23:01
          +1

          @financialwar:

          No, your implicit superiority is extremely offensive. Asia is Asia, people smell no matter where they are from, and intelligence is not governed by your ethnic group. Your unnecessary skin tone comment really complimented your ironic lack of intelligence.

        • financialwar on 01/07/2015 - 23:07
          -4

          @AznMitch:

          http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v130/n2/full/jid2009396a.h…

          A, in ABCC11, leading to a G180R substitution in the corresponding protein, provokes a dry and white earwax phenotype, which is predominant among East Asians (80–95%) and rare among European and African populations (0–3%), which normally have a wet and yellow earwax phenotype.

          Even scientific articles are specific about the types of Asians they are referring to.

          https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/just-what-was-so-amazi…

        • financialwar on 01/07/2015 - 23:16
          -8

          @thorton82:

          Lol, keep on telling yourself that. There is no intelligence variation among different ethnics groups lol. It's a taboo in the West, I know. But let see, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan (Han Chinese), HK (Han Chinese), Macau (Han Chinese), Singapore (Han Chinese majority) all just happen to coincidentally top all three areas of the PISA test. Oh does that make me a racist to point out they are all happen to be East Asians? Politically correctness propaganda got the best of ya.

        • iridiumstem on 01/07/2015 - 23:19
          +12

          @financialwar: Sigh, I bloody hate racists using scientific papers without even reading them. Or am I talking to a troll (probably latter, but I will let it pass for now).

          First of all, the way you are talking about simply reminds me of "naturalists' fallacy", which in short "What it ought to be, do not mean it should be". The paper that you and I've discussed (or more, I've read and you've ignored) mentions that it refers to odors from apocrine sweat glands. It's different to number of the gland, it's just the difference in contents in the sweat from apocrine sweat glands, which are located in armpits and other specific areas. Not to mention, the paper specifically says that it's looking at precursors of the chemicals that are related to the odors from apocrine sweat glands (i.e. before bacteria). It doesn't necessarily mean that Asians are going to smell less.

          Not to mention, the pattern of higher dry earwax is seen in India and other places as well, even though not as strong. http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v38/n3/full/ng1733.html

          If you want to talk about how "academic success" translates to intelligence, I am just going to facepalm. It is related to the culture more, academic successes are seen as something that's important in Asian culture in general. Measuring intelligence along with comparing differences in culture cannot be done like how you think it is done. If you want me to be honest, what intelligence is and how we measure it is something that is still argued and will never be not argued as it's really subjective. Academic achievements really rely on what values a country has, if a country sees academic success as the biggest achievement over all things, it's going to show up in those scores. It doesn't necessarily mean kids are smarter, it just means that they are expected/forced to be academically successful.

          High academic achievements in Korea for example, are met with high suicide rate, high game addiction rate (I know, game addiction is not yet diagnosable) and how selfish the kids are becoming nowadays.

          For example, You've not even read the article and tried to use the snippets of it, as if you knew about those things. It doesn't really look nice, trust me.

          If you want to buy into those nationalistic, racist ideas, I am not going to stop you. I've heard those crap since I left Korea. Those crap about how I am 54th descendent of an aristocrat yaddi yadda, first borne crap, Asians are better crap. Usually, either those ideas are simple misinterpretations of scientific researches or something that's completely irrelevant. Also, on similar note, even if Asians have advantages in certain areas, usually it doesn't matter in general. It's simple naturalists' fallacy where even if there is a natural advantage, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's be all and end all.

          Only people who needs those nationalistic and racist ideas are those who are insecure about their ability. To be honest, you are making a fool of yourself by talking about those things.

        • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2015 - 23:20
          +5

          @financialwar: PISA tests mean nothing. The highest scoring cities in the world are in China. USA didn't fare very well. Yet the USA files immeasurably more patents than China, and the only people who file patents in China has foreign post graduate education. Rote learning does not equal intelligence, it means you perform well on tests. Real life is very different, creativity matters, not the ability to receipt a text book. You are a racist who thinks they are superior to other people because of your race. It is sad.

  • gekiyasu on 01/07/2015 - 21:27
    +6

    Japanese hardly shower at all - they take baths instead.

    • Manh on 01/07/2015 - 21:53
      +2

      Nah, they still have to wash themselves before entering the bath. The bath for them is just to soak in and relax.

      • Grent on 01/07/2015 - 22:42
        +4

        In which case if you asked them if they had a shower or a bath the answer would be bath.

      • scrimshaw on 01/07/2015 - 23:19
        +4

        Going by what I know from anime (lulz) don't japanese people take a shower first before takin a soak in the bath? The bath water is apparently not drained after a bath, so that the next family member can reuse the heated bath water to save on utility costs.

        • Manh on 01/07/2015 - 23:22
          +3

          That's where I learnt it, too. Their shower-head is handheld and they sit on a mini stool while washing themselves.

  • zwolf on 01/07/2015 - 22:13
    +5

    It's Winter… if you're not overly strenuous or outgoing who gives a shit if it's not daily

  • 50cent on 01/07/2015 - 22:18

    honestly i shower 3 times a day on average. Once in the morning when i wake up to freshen up, then after work as i work hard out doors all day and get all sweaty and dirty and then after gym or cycling. I know 3 showers sounds like a lot but couldnt do it on less with out being grosse !!

    • Satoria on 01/07/2015 - 23:08

      Can I ask why you shower after gym/cycling?
      I usually shower in the morning, go the gym in the evening, and then shower again the next morning. Unless I'm about to get lucky, or am gymming nearer the start of the day or before a social engagement, what's the point of showering afterwards?
      Some people say that they don't like getting into bed while dirty, but isn't that the point of washing your sheets occasionally?

      • scrimshaw on 01/07/2015 - 23:24
        +7

        It can be uncomfortable trying to sleep sticky and sweaty.

        Also because some people prefer do it because they like to follow a routine — kind of like how some cannot sleep comfortably without having brushed their teeth or taking a nightcap before turning in.

  • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2015 - 22:33
    +3

    Im sorry, but does the OP not take dumps or have sex? (Well obviously no sex, who would have sex with someone who hasn't showered in the last 3 days?)

    • zwolf on 01/07/2015 - 22:54
      +27

      I'm sorry, do you shit down your leg?

      • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2015 - 23:02
        +14

        Im sorry, do you think toilet paper is the answer to cleanliness? Next time you take dump, do it on the floor and clean it up with only toilet paper. See how clean that is.

        • zwolf on 01/07/2015 - 23:05
          +20

          hahaha what the hell

        • RJK on 02/07/2015 - 00:10
          +8

          @zwolf: he means what other part of your body would you be content with cleaning poo up with just toilet paper :) Some cultures prefer to wash/rinse after taking a shit, and consider Australians unhygienic in this regard.

      • MetalPhreak on 01/07/2015 - 23:53
        +6

        Pissed myself laughing at this comment (time for a shower)

  • captobvious on 01/07/2015 - 23:05
    +2

    I shower at least twice a day. In the morning to wake up and after dinner to wind down.

  • doofus on 01/07/2015 - 23:30

    I thought this was familiar…

    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/170134

  • Moderatorhamza23 on 02/07/2015 - 00:18

    This thread is bringing some inappropriate comments and personal attacks and I think we've got a clear set of results from the poll. Comments are closed, thanks.

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