Posted on 09/09/2015 4:03:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Massachusetts company says spraying live bacteria on your skin is all you need to keep clean.
“I have not taken a shower in over 12 years,” Dave Whitlock said.
Whitlock, a chemical engineer and MIT grad, says he doesn’t miss bathing at all.
“No one did clinical trials on people taking showers every day. So what’s the basis for assuming that that is a healthy practice?” Whitlock said.
In fact, what Whitlock does believe is healthy is restoring good bacteria to our skin that our ancestors enjoyed long ago — bacteria that’s been slowly stripped away by excessive cleaning.
To prove his theory, Whitlock helped found “Aobiome,” a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“We’ve confused clean with sterile,” Jasmina Aganovic said.
Aganovic, also an MIT grad, says as humans, we need to reconnect with our environment.
“We’ve taken the dirt out of our lives. We don’t spend as much time outdoors as we used to — even as little children,” Aganovic said.
To add a little dirt back into our lives, Aobiome has created “Mother Dirt” — specifically the AO+ mist containing live bacteria that’s sprayed directly on the skin twice a day. It has no odor, and feels like water.
“Our users are able to reduce their dependence on conventional products. Examples include cutting out or cutting down on deodorant, cutting out or cutting down on moisturizers,” Aganovic said.
There’s a Mother Dirt shampoo and cleanser that doesn’t contain bacteria, but Aganovic says it won’t interfere with it either.
While Whitlock still doesn’t shower, he does use Mother Dirt every day and hopes the rest of the world will join him.
“I would like a billion people a day to use this,” Whitlock said.
While Aobiome officials believe in the health benefits of these live bacteria, they’re not making any scientific claims right now.
If that is true, we are violating fair labor laws, and the administration could have us all thrown in prison.
There is a reason why our ancestors sought out hot and cold springs.
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What foes he smell like?
Has anyone done clinical trials on toilet paper?
Make that does. My finger slipped.
I’m assuming this guy doesn’t do anything manual labor in the summertime.
His name doesn't sound French.
God’s Gift to Women.
Does he spray it on his teeth too?
“Does he spray it on his teeth too?”
I am trying real hard not to think about where he sprays it.
He should have had a Mother like mine. Poor as church mice but she always said keeping clean was cheap. Always had soap.
Many years go I went on a week long canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness, with about 5 women and six men. Four days into it we were all so itchy, stinky, and vile that none of us could stand either himself/herself or any of the rest of us. Finally,we reached a campground with enough time and good weather that we could bathe, provided we did it together. We did it with no mutual lust, just the compelling need to get clean. The same thing happens in military training. This weirdo must take pure, sadomachoistic pleasure in gradually rotting himself to death while stinking out and place he curses with his odious presence.
“There’s a nickname that will cling to ya.” Is that from MASH? Radar O’Reilly said something like that.
“I am trying real hard not to think about where he sprays it.”
Wonder if it keeps the fromundacheese from growing.
His name should be changed to PePe` Le Pew.
You’d likely need a “nose gay” though.
It’s always something with these juvenile academics.
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