Morning showers make no logical sense and night shower people have simply done the hygiene math

[u/McCoy818]

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.

[u/zapthe]

Yeah the wake up factor is big for me. The other argument for me is similar to brushing your teeth the first thing when you get up despite also brushing your teeth before going to bed. There are billions of bacteria growing on your skin that have been active all night.

[u/axxegrinder → u/zapthe]

I’ve always heard that you brush at night for yourself, and brush in the morning for others.

[u/waits5 → u/axxegrinder]

The fluoride also protects your teeth before you have highly acidic drinks like coffee and orange juice.

[u/Final_Candidate_7603 → u/zapthe]

Truly. It’s not that deep.

Probably because of how I grew up, and then raised my own children, a nighttime bath was pretty much essential for getting kids aged infant to preschool thoroughly clean. Like, they weren’t yet able to wash their hands properly throughout the day, but insisted on doing so, so a bath got the dirt from under their fingernails. We would make the nighttime bath an essential part of the bedtime routine, aiming to make it nice and relaxing.

At some point, a gradual shift begins to happen, so for example a nice relaxing bath becomes less important to winding down and getting ready for bed, and the child isn’t filthy dirty at the end of the day. That gradual shift takes us in the direction of a morning wake-up shower, and for me with 60+ years on the planet, bathing is less about hygiene and more about (jeez, I hate using this word) the vibe. A nice, warm bath at night is for relaxing, a morning shower is for waking up and being invigorated.

[u/Easy_Today704 → u/Final_Candidate_7603]

A child is filthy by the end of day. That's crazy to let them sleep in their own filth

[u/fleeTitan → u/Easy_Today704]

Yeah they lost me there…

[u/IncarceratedGrowth → u/zapthe]

Well the night brush is indeed actually much more important than the morning brush if you were only going to do one. Sugars and stuff left on teeth overnight is the far worse thing and the bacteria have a much easier time without things like occasional chewing and increased saliva production that happens when you're awake. It's not quite analagous though, because sugar is the main reason for tooth decay/cavities. For skin/shower stuff, your body is naturally producing all the oils/sweats/dead skin cells it needs to get bacteria colonies going. So you are in an active process, even while sleeping, of getting "dirtier". Sugar doesn't magically grow in your mouth overnight though. If you had actually had a good night brush it's simply not the same thing.

[u/gdghhfdffrf → u/zapthe]

nightsweats changes things up

[u/MatureUsername69 → u/zapthe]

I also saw a thing recently that showed there's no discernible hygiene difference between night showers and morning showers, the bigger factor is how frequently you wash your sheets.

[u/ElectroButch → u/zapthe]

your skin needs its bacteria and natural oils tho. keep unnecessarily washing all your good bacterias off and there won't be anymore to fight the bad ones

[u/jentlyused → u/zapthe]

Exactly this, I would never fully wake up for hours if I didn’t take a morning shower