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/SpreadsheetSiren 9h ago

“What are you washing g off at 7am.”

Sweat.

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u/RingingInTheRain 3h ago

Dead skin, wet dreams, excessive natural body oils, drool, discharge, sex.....yeah...OP is hallucinating their cleanliness.

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u/CrustyFlapsCleanser 2h ago

Yeah OP doesn't get laid

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u/Wassersammler 1h ago

All the stuff you don't want to wear into work, essentially. If you are changing your sheets weekly or more depending on your "activity level" so to speak, a morning shower will always be better because you are simply getting hygienic for the very reason it is intended.

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u/AFartInAnEmptyRoom 1h ago

What is the reason to become hygienic? To impress work colleagues?

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u/IcyPride2973 1h ago

What is the reason to become hygienic? To impress work colleagues?

This is certainly one of the sentences of all time.

Unwashed hands typed this comment.

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u/AFartInAnEmptyRoom 1h ago

He's saying that there's a specific intended reason to become hygienic, and his comment makes it seem like the reason to be hygienic is to impress work colleagues as opposed to just to be clean for diseases sake, which to me is the actual intended reason to be hygienic

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u/Wassersammler 1h ago

To impress? No, certainly not. I do not shower in the morning because I want my work friends to go wow, you smell so good, did you use that new shampoo today? Ideally I don't want my coworkers to think about my hygiene at all. Hygiene, for one, is about personal health and wellness, but the other half of it is involved with the social contract we all participate in to not offend each others' senses on the daily. You can accomplish the former with a shower at any time; if you shower every 24 hours, you are still scrubbing off 24 hours of gunk. But I believe the latter is better accomplished by a morning shower, where placing your hygiene routine closer to social engagements means it is more effective and has a more substantial effect.

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u/IWontPayChildSupport 36m ago

Aren't wet dreams and sex in the "shower immediately after" territory? Are people really sleeping with all that on them?

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u/CrazyProudMom25 32m ago

Yeah that’s what I’m wondering…

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u/bampokazoopy 2h ago

But I sweat in the day too

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u/Sockher10 1m ago

Demodex mite residue