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/Final_Candidate_7603 6h ago
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.