Joy Adalia
Here’s some good news for people who always have a hard time getting inside the bathroom each morning for a shower before heading out of the house. Bathing daily can harm the skin!
Now, let me first ask a question: How many times do you take a shower? If you answer “everyday” or “several times a day”, then you are doing it wrong – that is according to Science!
We’re not making things up here, mind you. According to BuzzFeed, Boston dermatologist Dr. Ranella Hirsch and assistant professor of dermatology [at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City] Dr. Joshua Zeichner, people are actually “overbathing” when they take a shower daily; most especially if they do it several times a day.
Our reaction to this? REALLY???????
As kids, we were told to take a bath everyday so we can stay clean but two dermatologists who spent years of studying human skin before becoming full-fledged doctors are saying we’ve been bathing wrongly for years! Wow!
Now, they are not just saying that to seek attention. They actually had valid reasons for their statements.
Both said we are overbathing, thanks to false advertisements started by companies selling hygiene products. Before these hygiene products became popular, people bathed less often yet had great skin as compared with the people who bathe daily yet have dry skin.
The reason for this is that frequent bathing takes away moisture from the skin, making it go dry.
Now, how about icky areas such as your armpits, groin, and the rear end? Don’t worry because both Hirsch and Zeichner agree that these parts should be cleaned daily – but, of course, you don’t have to take a bath to have these areas cleaned.
Also, it is important to change your undergarments daily, even if you don’t take a bath.
Cool! So, you don’t have to torment yourself into bathing daily before you go to work or wherever it is you are heading for. Hmmmmmm. Just make sure you don’t smell gross!
but…i love taking baths xd
I am not a scientist nor a dermatologist but I don’t think that this is applicable in the Philippines. As I remember though skin produces moisture it is also the #1 producer of DUST. So, when dust in our skin mixed with skin moisture while opening its skin pores and that is the time that the dirt will get inside our skin pores and will create a skin problem by then.
So, asking the society that they have bathe wrongly for years? naaaahhhhh. I couldn’t take the smell or the feeling for not taking a bath less than twice daily.
I am not a scientist nor a dermatologist but I don’t think that this is applicable in the Philippines. As I remember though skin produces moisture it is also the #1 producer of DUST. So, when dust in our skin mixed with skin moisture while opening its skin pores and that is the time that the dirt will get inside our skin pores and will create a skin problem by then. What’s the use of lotions as moisturizers afterwards???
So, asking the society that they have bathe wrongly for years? naaaahhhhh. I couldn’t take the smell or the feeling for not taking a bath less than twice daily.
Seems liKe so many articles support this. And Frederick, i dont remember skin being the #1 producer of dust. It may be one of the common landing site of dirt and dust. But producer? I dont know. It attracts, i know but to produce dust, from where, skin flakes? Maybe but where does skinflakes fome from? Dry skin, from bathing very often. I thing this article makes sense.
I sort of agree with Frederick, cause as I recall I have watched a program in discovery or in natgeo back then (I don’t remember exactly), and they were tackling regarding the dust inside of each and every household that we are living in, and they did explained that 80% of the dust inside your house is coming from the human body, particularly from human skin (maybe because of the dry skin)… so I say that for us specially the people who lives in the Philippines is being adviced to take our daily bath, since we are living in a polluted urban… And I agree with applying the lotion to keep the skin moisturize… anyways, I also see your point, cause maybe you live in a non or less polluted city, not like we do. And of course it’s still up to us on how are we going take and apply it to ourselves right?
This is true based on what I’m experiencing now..at the age of 34 I have very sensitive skin already unlike before.. I just came from specialist last week because of my skin problem, the dermatologist told me avoid over bathing… We can maintain our good hygiene in other way,like using wet towel in a lookwarm water and wipe all over your body and wash those sweaty areas seperately…. Over bathing gives us skin problems like: itching, different skin rashes like eczema,gross rash,skin breakage,dry skin etc…
WOW! now you filthy lazy gross shower-hating people have now a valid excuse not to take a bath everyday!
I am 40 yrs old and ive been taking my shower DAILY since i was born.
Guess what? my skin has never had any problems of ANY sort EVER!
same goes to my parents and my grand parents and all my relatives and friends!
my grandma died almost a 100 yrs old and not a single issue on her skin was reported coz she takes her shower very single day!
And now you want me to change my views about showering just because of a scientific opinion of 2 LAZY shower-hating dermatologists? I dont think so! You filthy shower-hater just go on with this opinion if you like but i dont think hundreds of millions of people on earth that takes their shower daily as their habit will stop doing it just because of your shallow findings about “overbathing”
The amount of close-mindedness is strong in this one.
I guess the wording in the title of the article is what ticks you but I think what they’re trying to say is it’s much better if you take a bath less.
Also no one is forcing you to change, wtf are you butthurt about.
I bet you’re going to rage too when you learn that you’re “pooping the wrong way” when you sit down. rofl.
ok i know this is true but question how many times in a week do we need to take a bath? i always do everyday also but just asking
This is true. Im turning 34 this year yet i look early 20’s. I take a bath 3x to 5x a week.
Keep in mind that bathing is not showering. The term is used interchangibly only in the Philippines which is incorrect.
“Now, how about icky areas such as your armpits, groin, and the rear end?”
And most people use toilet paper for that last area – that hardly gets you clean, like trying to clean the plates with a dry piece of paper. Washing – like the third world do – is much healthier and does not expose the body to toxins that are in TP. TP is unhealthy and unenvironmental (wastes 27,000 trees a day).