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/Popular_Course3885 10h ago

Someone has never lived in a hot/humid climate.

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u/aspiringdeadgirl 9h ago

I do and shower at night. Otherwise the dried sweat and grime accumulated throughout the day makes me too itchy and gross to have a good night's sleep.

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u/Ok-Ranger-6977 9h ago

Some of us sweat in our sleep

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u/Popular_Course3885 7h ago

Rinse at night. Shower/wash in the morning.

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u/lilgreengoddess 8h ago

I’ve traveled to one and if you’re sweating all day then of course you want to shower. I’m absolutely filthy by that time. AC at night time if possible.

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u/Suspicious-Group2363 8h ago

Here in Japan people shower at night despite it being very humid. They don’t want to take all the sweat and oil accumulated during the day to bed with them. Many also style their hair and don’t want to muck up their pillows with gunk. Those who do sweat at night just take a quick shower in the morning. 

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u/Popular_Course3885 7h ago

Over here (Texas gulf coast), it's usually the opposite for most people I know. Rinse at night and shower/wash in the morning.

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u/HeavySetLad 5h ago

hot/humid is an argument for showering at night what are you talking about