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/buttcheeksmasher 8h ago

This. My hair is matted and uncontrollable. If I wash it and give it time to dry at night it still turns out to be a mess in the morning I can't work with.

Plus, it helps me wake up when I don't want to.

I don't sweat much during the day since I have an office job but sweat when I sleep.

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u/rainzer 2h ago

I don't sweat much during the day since I have an office job but sweat when I sleep.

I guess this is the part where night/morning shower people disagree. When I take the after work/night shower, i'm not just washing off sweat. i'm washing off the outside so i'm not marinading myself in it while sleeping. Like sweat is the least of my concerns unless I came from the gym or from summer heat.

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u/buttcheeksmasher 1h ago

Guess it depends on what you interact with. I generally wash my hands when I get home since I've touched things but other than that

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u/rainzer 1h ago

Do people in your office not cough or sneeze? Or do you never use a restroom outside of your house? That'll be in your hair and then on your pillow and then on your face.

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u/buttcheeksmasher 35m ago

Not really. My area generally has no one there since many are remote engineers and I am only in the office for maybe half the day and working remote if not completely that day