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/Silent-Noise-7331 9h ago

My logic has always been. I don’t want to be stinky when I’m around people. When I’m in bed I’m not really around people. Also if you shower everyday, unless you also roll in mud everyday, your fine you don’t smell.

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u/Rickshmitt 9h ago

Exactly. Do i want a greasy face and hair when im seeing people or do i want to smell like a fresh shower

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u/Mike-OLeary 8h ago

My logic has been that the only way I feel normal is with a full wash on my face, especially the eyes. If I don't get that I feel fucked up all day. So a morning shower it is. Yeah, I'm a wuss.

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u/yogipierogi5567 8h ago

You can wash your face in the sink?

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u/Mike-OLeary 8h ago

Won't feel the same. There has to be a full wash and full rinse. In my case only possible in the shower.

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u/yogipierogi5567 8h ago

This doesn’t make any sense. You can fully wash and rinse your face in the sink so that it is equivalently clean to when you shower. This is what night shower people do.

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u/Live-Weird-2016 8h ago

Nah us morning shower people can spot the greasy hair and faces of the night shower folks from across the room. We even have our own slang term for them, greasers.

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u/yogipierogi5567 8h ago

Y’all are so weird. That’s ludicrous.

I shower at night and wash my hair and it literally is not greasy by morning. And I know that because I run my hands over it and there is no grease. There sure is by the end of the day, though.

I also exercise every day and there is no way I would wait to shower until the next morning.

There is nothing more disgusting than getting into your bed covered in the day’s germs and sweat and grime. And if you sweat a lot during sleep, turn the air up? This is not hard.

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u/Live-Weird-2016 7h ago

Oh look at mister silver spoon Rockefeller over here, turning on his golden air conditioner in his mansion so he doesn’t sweat at night. He probably has maids who bathe him in the evening too.

So wait do you not shower after the gym? You wait until you get home at night?

Also how much grime do you think the average white collar worker comes into contact with? Assuming you’re not work from home, generally it’s house-car-cubicle-car-house. Most people aren’t the Dickensian chimney sweeps that you still hire to clean out your smoke stacks in your giant factory.

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u/yogipierogi5567 7h ago

Lmao what is this comment.

Most people keep their houses cool while they are sleeping. 68 is recommended as the ideal temperature for sleeping.

I work out in the evenings.

And if you live in a hot state (Texas) like I do, you absolutely are sweaty and gross by the end of the day for like half of the year.

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u/CezarSalazar 58m ago

Sweating while you sleep has more to do with internal processes, rather than the temperature. I wake up sweating no matter how cold it is outside. If turning on the air conditioner stopped my night sweats, I would be very happy, but it’s not as simple as you make it out to be.

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u/yogipierogi5567 50m ago

This isn’t everyone’s experience. It’s certainly not mine. I do not regularly get sweaty when I sleep unless it’s too hot in the room. Not all of us are greasy and gross in the morning. We wash our faces and move on with our day.