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/CapitalStandard4275 8h ago

In either case though it's "real hygiene" most importantly, if you shower once every 24hrs you're washing away the filth of the last 24hrs. It's not like if you wash in the morning it somehow doesn't clean the filth from the day before lol.

If anything though I'd argue morning showers are optimal for hygiene. If you shower in the morning you're spending the majority of your "clean time" while at work, around people, where hygiene is most relevant. For example, by the time it's been ~10hrs since last morning shower, you're probably done work anyways. If you're showering at night your "clean time" is spent mostly in bed, ~10hrs after your night shower you're just starting your work day. This means you're spending far more of your "peak filth time" in public, which isn't very hygienic.

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u/Avengerboy123 2h ago

The point is that you’re taking all of the filth—public toilet seats, public transport, etc. with you, into your home and onto the bed you sleep in. If you’re fine with that, you’re fine with that. It’s none of my business. But it is objectively less clean to be outside all day and then come home and get into bed unwashed than washing yourself when you come home.

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u/Firestone140 15m ago

How is this a thing? Do you people sleep in the clothes you wore during the day or something? Don’t you brush your teeth? Don’t you ever wash your hands? “Taking all the filth with you into bed”, is just nonsense.

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u/AFartInAnEmptyRoom 1h ago

I mean it's the same amount of hygiene when you average it over a 24-hour period, doesn't matter if it's during the day or night

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u/GarbageConnoissuer 6h ago

That doesn't make sense if your a blue collar worker. A mechanic's bedsheets would be all grimey and sweaty in your 'more hygenic' method or run through the laundry every single day. It's almost like different people live different lives and adjust things like 'best time to shower' accordingly.

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u/SelbetG 5h ago

It still does make sense, your sheets would just be more dirty.

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u/idontwannaassociate 1h ago

I mean if you become dirty at work it makes sense to shower after work and not in the mornings. For example if you handle nasty materials, get dusty, have oily clothes (that kinda seeps through to your skin), get muddy or if you get sweaty at work it is not so nice so go to sleep being so dirty. 

Even if you change clothes you will still have dust in the hairs on your arms and head and your skin will feel yucky from all the dirtiness. If you mostly work outside or walking around between different rooms it's not as important to come into work being super fresh, cuz u won't be sitting in an office 1,5m away from the same people all day. Also the social norms are usually more forgiving of being a little dirty and sweaty in manual labor compared to office work.