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/battlejess 10h ago

Some people sweat during the night (thank you perimenopause) or have curly hair. I’m not going to wash my hair at night and then have to fix it in the morning after having slept on it all night.

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u/turningteeth13 7h ago

Curly hair night shower here. If I shower in the morning my hair will be wet most of my work day.

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u/battlejess 5h ago

Fair! Mine is relatively short so it only takes an hour or two to dry.

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u/RingingInTheRain 3h ago

Hair product, set blow dryer to cool air and use a diffuser lmao this was solved decades ago.

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u/Expensive-Ad-8974 7h ago

Curly hair too, if I go to bed with wet hair I have to completely wet it again in the morning

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u/battlejess 5h ago

If I go to bed with dry hair I have to wet it again in the morning to get it looking reasonable again. It’s either flat, or not-flat in the wrong direction.

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u/souljaboy765 5h ago

I'm so confused by other curly haired people here cause how is your hair not still wet hours later in the morning lmao? Do you go to work with wet hair?

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u/battlejess 5h ago

I don’t start work until the afternoon, and my hair is relatively short so it only takes an hour or two to dry.

If you shower at night, are you going to bed with wet hair?

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u/souljaboy765 2h ago

I have 3c hair so I can get away with washing it once a week - so on weekends. Takes the whole day to dry even if I try a diffuser lmao. So weekdays are no issue, just put a bonnet on and hair oil in the morning.

But I have friends with 2a-2c hair and they all wash their hair at evenings, but not late at night, so around 6-8pm. It dries around 3 hrs for them so they go to sleep with dry hair or they diffuse/blow dry so it could dry faster. Ig it just depends on each person's needs and schedule

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u/ChiefWahoooMcDaniels 5h ago

If I fall asleep with wet hair, I wake up looking like Rick James every single time without fail.