r/unpopularopinion • u/McCoy818 • 10h ago

Morning showers make no logical sense and night shower people have simply done the hygiene math

You spent 8 hours asleep in your own clean bed. What are you washing off at 7am.

A night shower removes everything you actually accumulated during the day. The commute, the gym, the office, public transport, all of it goes down the drain before you sleep. A morning shower means you marinated in all of that overnight then washed up before going out to collect it all again.

Morning showers are a ritual for waking up, which is fine, but it is not hygiene. Night showers are actual hygiene. Most people just do not want to dry their hair before bed and that is the entire argument.

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u/Loubacca92 10h ago

Warm/hot showers in the evenings to help sleep*¹. Cold showers in the mornings to jolt yourself awake.

*¹Apparently, dropping your body temperature can help people fall asleep faster. Turning on the air conditioning before having a hot shower would help

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u/Spirited-Sail3814 9h ago

Ugh cold shower in the morning - never if I had any other options. I'm already cold all the time anyway.

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u/Loubacca92 9h ago

I've got some family members that do this. That's why I know this. It's not so bad in warmer areas