What’s your daily routine? Do you wake up, take a shower, brush your teeth, and head out into the world? Or do you prefer a nice relaxing shower before heading off to bed for a good night’s sleep?
Whichever time of day you like to bathe, you probably do so fairly regularly, at least several times a week. After all, cleanliness is key when it comes to being healthy and attractive, right?
Well, maybe not. Maybe, just maybe, you should actually be showering way less than you are.
According to several people, including MIT graduate Dan Whitlock, who invented a line of alternative products designed to replace traditional soaps called MotherDirt, and Atlantic writer James Hamblin, you should maybe stop showering altogether.
Seriously.
Although not ever showering seems too extreme for most people, there is evidence that cleaning yourself too much, especially with soaps and detergents full of drying and artificially-scented materials, can in fact have a detrimental impact on your body, and that people who do not regularly bathe in the manner we do, with hot water and soaps, tend to have healthier and more robust populations of friendly bacteria in and on their bodies, meaning they get fewer infections and have stronger immune systems.
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