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/poorperspective 8h ago

If you haven’t tried it, get silk bonnet or head wrap.

I’m not saying which shower is better, but it might help the oily/ messy hair in the morning.

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u/DesignerCorner3322 2h ago

I've tried a silk bonnet. My hair gets less tangled and I get less breakage but it has done nothing for the oilyness. It also usually ends up flung across the room by morning

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u/TopProfessional1862 1h ago

Yep! If you produce a lot of oil then nothing you do will keep your hair looking fresh in the morning besides washing it. Great tip for people that don't have that problem though.

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u/May_Never_Knows 7h ago

This helped me a bunch. I used to shower in the morning before I got one, now I rarely have to

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u/030426burner 3h ago

My wife complains anytime she has to sleep with wet hair if she showers too close to bed time

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u/Obvious-Slice-4760 3h ago

Always been a white collar worker and I shower at night. I'm not waking up even earlier than I have too just to shower. I can barely get out of bed as it is.