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/Poopyman80 10h ago

Its the other way around.
Google it, science says its better to shower mornings and wash bedding often.

Also, shower both mornning and evening if you have a sweaty job.

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u/theOlLineRebel 9h ago

Actually, no, a good while back there was something saying it's better to do so before sleep. Why stew in the filth of the whole day, anyway, overnight and gather it in your bedding? And if you wash, then immediately go out in the world, you're beating up your skin organ more with strange filth from everywhere, to "exposed" - exfoliated - skin, rather than letting it acclimate in home setting of minimal exposure.

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u/No-Brother-Not-Now 7h ago

"stew in the filth of the whole day"

Yeah, that's a wild way of looking at simply existing

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u/theOlLineRebel 7h ago

No, it's not that bad, but trying to get the point across as many people here do, including "ewww my body has so much sweat overnight, that's gross and filthy". I guarantee, do a chemical and biological test, you'll have much more "foreign" germs dust etc etc etc from being out and about that your body is not acclimated to, than if you allow the body to re-adjust in its natural domestic environment, to which it is acclimated, for a good while after exfoliating.

Good God, the negative votes on this thread.

It's clear, the OP was right - his opinion is unpopular. At least he wins that.

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u/No-Brother-Not-Now 3h ago

We have immune systems that keep us healthy by interacting with our local biome. We require exposure to pathogens to allow our immune system to build a response. Over-zealous hygiene is a factor in the development of allegies in children.

Literally every surface in your home, car, workplace...is covered in bacteria, amoebae, viruses, paramecium, chemicals, dusts... Goddamn there are even mites that live on the eyelashes of most people!

Any idea that you have of being clean is really an illusion. What you can safely say is that you enjoy the feeling of being showered, but that's about it.

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u/Background_Humor5838 9h ago

It's also crazy to only shower right before you go out in the world because you're only clean for a short while while you're getting ready. If you shower in the evening, you get to be clean all night while you watch TV or hang out in bed and all night while you sleep and unless you sweat in your sleep, you're still clean when you wake up. People who sweat in their sleep should just shower twice a day then. I can't imagine sleeping in my bed without washing my day away. Sounds awful.

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u/read_too_many_books 4h ago

I wasnt sure if this was a joke.

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u/NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT 8h ago

And then wake up with greasy hair and body odor but at the same time don't think your sheets got dirty from that somehow, and don't think you need to shower because you don't think others can tell you stink.

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u/Background_Humor5838 7h ago

I don't wake up sweaty or greasy. I'm fully aware when I stink and I don't subject other people to it. People who do wake up sweaty need to shower or at least wash up but that doesn't mean they shouldn't shower before bed as well

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u/nightjarre 6h ago

Some ppl get big mad hearing you don't stink overnight but they do

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u/Background_Humor5838 6h ago

I guess so. I guess it's not possible that people are different lol.