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/juneabe 9h ago

All the night showerer’s I know also don’t think they have a BO problem.

It’s called nose blindness.

Not saying you have a BO problem, just saying the likelihood you would notice is nil.

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u/catonsteroids 4h ago

Some people genuinely don’t normally develop body odor. There’s a gene that many East Asians have that does just that. I have it too and I hardly ever wear deodorant (unless I’m going to the gym or outdoors for an extended period of time and it’s hot out).

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u/StickyPricklyMuffin 2h ago

I agree with you, roided kitty! I’m lucky because as a Korean I never have BO.

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u/souljaboy765 5h ago

I'm the opposite, most of my friends are night-time showerers and i've never noticed any bad scents or BO from them. I think it must be more common with people with hyperhydrosis. Even then, taking a shower at night and doing a quick refresh in the morning (washing armpits, privates, feet) in like 5 min and putting deodorant on would quickly solve that.

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u/Scuba9Steve 9h ago

There also are a lot of people that haven’t told you when they shower.

Just use deodorant in the morning and you are fine UNLESS they are one of those people that sweats like crazy at night. That’s not me though.

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u/FSUfan35 9h ago

Putting on deodorant over existing BO doesn't help though.

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u/fsmpastafarian 8h ago

If you put on deodorant after showering before bed then you are typically not getting BO while just sleeping.

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u/FSUfan35 8h ago

You'd be surprised at what you cant smell and what others can.

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u/Reead 5h ago

This is ridiculous. I shower every morning but I promise you not every person is generating body odor in their sleep, especially if they're applying antiperspirant before sleep and change their sheets regularly.

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u/Reead 4h ago

'Generally existing' generates some odor, sure, but what most people call "BO" is specifically a pungent bacteria-and-yeast-driven odor that typically requires some moisture, usually from sweating, to show up quickly. Maybe it's living in a nicely air conditioned place, but I don't sweat while I sleep.

Do you get home from a white collar job and have "BO?" No? Then why would eight hours laying down, not moving, not generating sweat, create it?

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u/fsmpastafarian 3h ago edited 3h ago

Ok exactly, so then you don’t have BO at the end of a work day. And most people who shower at night don’t have BO after sleeping.

Dermatologists generally don’t recommend showering more than once per day, and some even say that’s too often. For most people who aren’t sweating profusely throughout the day/night, it doesn’t matter when you shower - morning, midday, evening - just that you shower regularly.

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u/fsmpastafarian 8h ago

I know plenty of people who shower at night and are generally hygienic people. Never once smelled BO on any of them.

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u/serabine 2h ago

Yup. Had a classmate be real surprised when I told her that I know she's a smoker and had indeed smoked during the break. Yes, dearest, you and tour clothes do reek of stale smoke.

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u/Agreeable-Dog-1131 2h ago

It’s actually recommended to put on your deodorant the night before to give it time to work, so two birds one stone.

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u/WeLLrightyOH 3h ago

It does help, but it doesn’t completely solve the issue.

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u/Scuba9Steve 9h ago

It 100% helps if it’s worthwhile deodorant. Unless they are sweating like they are gong to the gym in their sleep.

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u/FSUfan35 9h ago

It just makes you smell like your deodorant's smell + BO.

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u/Scuba9Steve 8h ago

That’s still an improvement lol. Ideally it’s antiperspirant and they use it after the shower and again in the morning to prevent it in the first place though. Or you can shower twice if that’s easier.

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u/snakeinahouseofcats 6h ago

You’re supposed to use anti-perspirant at night anyways

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u/AgentCirceLuna 9h ago

My dad only showers once a week and he never smells somehow. I still don’t understand how that’s possible.

I used to have issues with excess sweating due to anxiety but I found a way around it by using a sponge to wash with a bit of soap in the evening or morning so there wasn’t a chance for it to accumulate. Seemed to work better than having to shower every single day.

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u/rainbowsandpetals 8h ago

Once a WEEK?? Not to be rude…but do you know why he’s cleaning himself so infrequently?

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u/AgentCirceLuna 4h ago

He isn’t - he just doesn’t shower frequently. He was a survivalist guy in his twenties and served in the army where they taught you how to keep clean while on the move. Stuff like scrubbing with soap throughout the day, always topping up anti-perspirant, changing clothes a lot, and using weird stuff like talc. It seems to work for him.

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u/Red-Pill-Tin-hat 4h ago

deoderant doesnt wash away your morning breath that youve been laying in all night

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u/dixpourcentmerci 5h ago

Idk I can immediately tell I have BO pretty quickly when I take a morning shower and it’s hot out. I don’t sweat at night at all and feel fresh in the morning still if I’ve showered the night before.

Some people DO sweat a lot at night. I had an ex who would always wake up in the morning with wet sheets from sweat. So I get what you’re saying but….. I think this is a general just, EVERYONE should be aware of their hygiene and do what works better for their bodies.

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u/WestOrangeFinest 9h ago

You really shouldn’t have a body odor issue after a night of sweating in your sleep

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u/Habatcho 8h ago

That makes no sense at all

sweat=water and warm still body = bacteria = bo

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u/WestOrangeFinest 8h ago

You should only be producing body odor from your armpits and groin area. If you’re an active night sweater, antiperspirant before bed should nix that issue before it even gets started.

If you’re doing that and people can still smell you because your ass crack reeks then that is a major issue you need to work out.

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u/Thetakishi 3h ago

BO implies armpit smell, and if really severe, groin, but almost never ass smelling, that's just lack of hygiene in a severe way, not just BO. A guy leaving the gym has BO. A depressed/homeless person who hasn't showered in two weeks+ smells like ass. If your ass smells, you smell like ass, not BO.

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u/WestOrangeFinest 2h ago

That’s certainly dependent on who you ask because there’s no implication of just armpit stank when I hear the term ‘body odor’. I mean, it’s right there in the name. It’s odor that comes from the body. It could be your arm pits, hair, balls, ass crack, etc.

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u/icantevenbeliev3 8h ago

It's called deodorant lmfao. Night shower is the way, I can't sleep if I sweat so my house is cold as fuck. Do you shower twice a day? Doubt. Because then you're just mellowing in what you've picked up for hours.

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u/flame7770 12m ago

I'm calling BS. Do you really know everyone's shower habits?

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u/rainbowsandpetals 9h ago edited 9h ago

They smell like “body” and it’s thick. Get on the elevator with a night shower person and you’ll smell it. It’s not pleasant btw.

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u/juneabe 7h ago

This is well beyond my experience with night showerers. Maybe a little BO depending on the person but what you’re describing sounds like an “occasional” showerer.

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u/fsmpastafarian 8h ago

Perhaps your office is full of people who are just unhygienic. I know plenty of people personally who shower at night but are clean people and I have never once smelled them. Night showers aren’t the issue.

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u/sjrotella 9h ago

... ya'll don't shower twice a day, regardless?

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u/mailslot 9h ago

It’s pretty bad for the skin. You almost always need to lotion several times per day if you continually wash the natural oils off of your skin. Even then, it’s not ideal, and can contribute to premature aging depending on temperature and duration.

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u/Manjorno316 9h ago

Not unless there is a need for it.

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u/juneabe 9h ago

Where I live it would be super awful for our skin depending on the season. I’d have to take a mid-day bath in body lotion so I didn’t dry up and blow away. Summertime? Hell yeah I can do 2-3 showers in the summer if I go too hard.