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How Often People in Various Countries Shower
www.theatlantic.com ^ | Feb 17, 2015 | Olga Khazan

Posted on 06/25/2019 2:25:28 PM PDT by Red Badger

Amidst the no-shampoo revolution, a look at global hygiene habits

Cleanliness, it turns out, has been one dirty trick. One reason early-20th-century Americans ramped up their weekly baths to daily showers is that marketing companies capitalized on the insecurities of a new class of office drones working in close quarters. As Gizmodo wrote last week, to sell products like "toilet soap" and Listerine to Americans, "the advertising industry had to create pseudoscientific maladies like 'bad breath' and 'body odor.'"

Take, for instance, Gizmodo's description of the philosophy of the Cleanliness Institute, which was founded by the Association of American Soap and Glycerine Producers:

The trade association wanted Americans to wash quite unwittingly after toilet, to wash without thought before eating, to jump into the tub as automatically as one might awake each new day.

And so we did. A Reddit user recently polled 562 people and found that most men said they showered daily. Women's bathing rituals were more diffuse, but about 60 percent preferred to shower three, four, or five times weekly.

Now is the dawn of a new, more pungent era, though. People are snapping up dry shampoo and No-Poo and coating themselves in bacteria. Dr. Sanjay Jain recently told Jezebel that "showers don't need to be too hot, or too long, and you should always pat dry, rather than rub, to avoid irritating your skin." One family went six months without using soap and raved about the results.

But as it turns out, Americans aren't alone when it comes to having overdone it with too-frequent showers and shampoos.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: bath; countrylist; health; hygeine; showers; soap
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To: DariusBane

Twice a day?

I’m reminded of Grandpa McCoy, Walter Brennan of the TV show the Real McCoys, ranting that his kids spent so much time in the bath tub, their shriveled skin was going to fall off.


61 posted on 06/25/2019 4:11:31 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: LaMudBug

And in the fifties, the Dial soap commercial that said,
“Don’t you wish everybody else did?” (use the soap).


62 posted on 06/25/2019 4:14:41 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Red Badger

Talk about a site ‘going in the toiler’ or terlet for ABunker.

‘They’ say that if one can smell themselves that everyone else has been smelling them for a couple of days.

I have an olfactory problem and have the ‘good fortune’ of not smelling all that well - sometimes it is helpful.

The question is

Just because one can’t smell does that mean they don’t smell?


63 posted on 06/25/2019 4:17:09 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is cast as the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: Gamecock

Not from the pictures I’ve seen!


64 posted on 06/25/2019 4:21:14 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: xrmusn

Just because one can’t smell does that mean they don’t smell?


Of course not. I have no sense of smell, and of all the five senses, it’s the one I can live without just fine. It’s a stinky world out there. ;)


65 posted on 06/25/2019 4:23:51 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: C210N
Interesting that US bathing pales in comparison to Mexico bathing.

I think they are counting Rio Grande crossings as bathing.

66 posted on 06/25/2019 4:31:41 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: TigersEye

It was some of the most batshit stuff I’ve ever read.

I can’t even.

:D


67 posted on 06/25/2019 4:40:10 PM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: FatherofFive

My son’s wife’s stepfather is Indian. He took them both for a visit a few years ago. Son got deathly ill. They cooked meals in a filthy room, and had the disgusting habit of everyone touching their food after being served. Open sewers right outside luxury hotels. Never a place I’d go.


My son had to go to Malaysia on business for 3 weeks...Said same thing about open sewers by luxury hotels, and tho he ate at “good restaurants,” he got very sick too. Many of people he worked with and saw had hepatitis - jaundice in whites eyes. :( He hopes he is never sent there again!


68 posted on 06/25/2019 4:42:01 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (#KATE'SWALL Build it Now)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Three days after a shampoo and I feel scuzzy.
It’s a pita to wash hair this long but I’ll stick with my shampoo I think.

:)


69 posted on 06/25/2019 4:42:42 PM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: Red Badger

And I ALWAYS remove the little water-saving restriction washer/band. The more water pressure, the better.


70 posted on 06/25/2019 4:43:23 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Salamander

For a real long lasting clean wash your hair with wolverine pheromones and go for a walk in the woods. The wolverines will rip your scalp off and it will be months before you even have any skin on your head!

Aye and the lassies will like ya too! LOL


71 posted on 06/25/2019 4:48:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Salamander
Washing is not a problem, it is the drying.

If I use a hair dryer it gets dirty faster.

If I let it air dry it takes forever.

Oh well, my sweetie likes it and that is all that counts.

72 posted on 06/25/2019 4:52:09 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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To: Red Badger
"the advertising industry had to create pseudoscientific maladies like 'bad breath' and 'body odor.'"

Right, halitosis and smelly armpits are just figments of some ad executive's imagination.

Leftists aren't just deranged ideologues - they literally stink.
73 posted on 06/25/2019 4:53:24 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Chode

They are using French tap water so it’s really hard to tell the difference


74 posted on 06/25/2019 4:53:31 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Red Badger

I bathe the first day of Spring whether I need it or not.


75 posted on 06/25/2019 4:57:18 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Red Badger

Yep if you have to carry water for a quarter of a mile or
haul it five miles behind a team of horses and in the winter
haul and chop wood to heat it with you just sponge bath
through the week and take a bath on saturday.

In the summer hopefully you live walking distance to a pond or
stream.

But the goodie two shoes of today who critisize the most would
rot before they would walk five or ten miles to a cold pond or
stream.


76 posted on 06/25/2019 5:08:02 PM PDT by ravenwolf
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To: jjotto

In 1977, I worked in an office setting doing accounting.

A man from India was hired. He was VERY smart-—dressed nicely in suit & tie each day.... but his body odor would knock out a Billy Goat.

After ONE WEEK in that office with only him & me, I told my boss that unless I was moved out of that office, I would quit.

I got an office of my own.


77 posted on 06/25/2019 5:09:00 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Kommodor

Probably true in his day, given that my Mother, who was 81 when she passed recently, told me that in the 40’s as a child, kids only bathed once a week. However, everything depends on your job. If you work a dirty job in all weather, you will tend to shower more.


78 posted on 06/25/2019 5:17:57 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: Red Badger
It would likely require 41/2 years for me to fully read this stuff. I’d prefer to spend that time under a hot water spray.

Duhhh.

79 posted on 06/25/2019 5:28:25 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: C210N

Interesting that US bathing pales in comparison to Mexico bathing.
= = =

Maybe crossing the Rio Grande counts as bathing?


80 posted on 06/25/2019 5:32:00 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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