• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    Night showerers are gross.

    Your skin and hair produce dead skin cells and oil. You wallow in that all night, and your bed gets continually dirtier until you wash the sheets, then you get up and go to work dirty in the morning. Your co-workers notice and make fun of you.

    Morning showers are also what turns me from a coprse into at least the living dead.

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      It’s too easy to skip a shower in the morning for extra sleep though. Then I get no shower. That’s why I shower at night haha

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    As long as people aren’t keeping you at arms length, telling you that you stink, and your skin and hair is healthy, people should shower as they see fit.

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    Shower at night for yourself, shower in the morning for other people.

    There seems to be a misconception that showering at night, getting into a clean bed and waking means you’re still clean… The truth is the majority of odours and filth come from you. Sweat, dead skin, other stuff…

    These posts are always positioned as a binary, even when you can do both, and there’s some nuance to it all.

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      Like, do you brush your teeth in the morning or at night?

      But you haven’t eaten anything in the night, right?

      That’s the logic on display here.

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        I don’t brush my teeth after sleeping, either. After breakfast, sure, but first thing in the am? Why?

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          For me it started with not breathing well through my noses so my mouth would taste awful when I woke up from being all dry and weird. Then it became an excuse to get my ass out of bed and moving.

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          Because your body naturally produces things you need to clean, it’s like 75% of the reason you do it. Eating stuff just speeds up the production of bacteria. Give your breath a smell as you wake up in the morning before you eat anything, it reeks.

          You should brush your teeth in the morning whether you eat breakfast or not.

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            The way I always heard it from multiple dentists is “if you want to keep your friends brush in the morning, if you want to keep your teeth brush at night, best is both.”

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              Dentist never heard of a mint?

              Also I thought morning brushing was about teeth because most smells are on the tongue not the teeth unless there’d an abscess or something.

              Does everybody brush/scrape their tongue every morning?

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            It’s reasonable for most people to hit the Carlin-4 twice a day. If not for social reasons, then for health and hygiene.

            Dentists say we ought to brush twice a day, morning and night. My dentist once told me that if I’m only going to brush once a day, then it should be at night. You don’t produce as much saliva while sleeping as you do while awake, and that create a better environment for the bacteria that cause tooth decay. Brushing at night removes the tiny food particles the bacteria feed on, reducing the likelihood of developing tooth decay and gingivitis.

            We then brush again in the morning because the lack of flowing saliva overnight causes a buildup of other bacteria that feeds on mucus, which is the cause of “morning breath”.

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              Right? And I’ve been saying that at night, whilst you sleep, a similar process happens all over your body.

              Sweat, dead cells, farting under the duvet.

              That’s why we shower in the morning too.

              Bed time isn’t a magical clean stasis. Biological processes happen. People seem to miss that in this weird debate.

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    You should shower twice a day at least. Once in the morning to wash of the stink of the night, and before bed to wash off the stink of the day.

    It’s really not a binary choice.

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        You know, that might be fair. It’s never been a problem for me, but I do know my wife’s skin doesn’t like it when she showers too much. (Something she brought up, when I was making jokes about how Lemmings hate showers due to the downvotes).

        Guess I just repeated what worked for me as a fact without really thinking it through, my bad lol. I appreciate you sourcing your argument, though. +1.

        Edit: forgot some words.

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    ITT lots of sweaty sleepers spending 10 hours sleeping in a puddle of sweat and grease. I’d need a morning shower too if I was like that.

    Normal people that are not covered in 10 hours of sweat when they wake up probably don’t need a morning shower and trying to say that sleeping (without the copious amounts of sweat of you veritable faucets)is the same as spending 16+ hours moving and working and being around other people is really delusional. And what adult is getting 10+ hours of sleep on the regular? Y’all either live in some major privilege or don’t have hobbies.

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    I cannot stand going to bed dirty. I always shower before bed. And if my day went poorly, and sometimes it did, fresh clothes and multiple showers during the day. But only once did I ever burn a set of clothes.

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      This is how most normal people feel. These threads are like the “stand to wipe” “debate” where it’s only a debate among a certain subset of very online people.

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    When i wake up, if i had a shower tthr night before, my hair is all rough and greasy and i need to shower again in the morning. So its more efficient to just shower in the morning. Saves water and electricity too.

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        As someone who inherited my German ancestors greasy ass hair, let me tell you it doesn’t help. I’ll take it over the dry but relatively brittle hair of my Scottish and Irish ancestors, still got the rusty red color and wavyness from em though piss easy to maintain.

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          That’s fair. I was wondering because I have fine hair that gets greasy fast, but for some reason using a silk pillow case and washing it every few days (both my hair and the pillow case) has helped immensely.

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    50 years of my body being trained to wake up with a shower means never taking one before bed if I actually want to fall asleep. Rare exceptions are made as needed. Sheets get washed and changed several times a week.

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      It’s reasonable for most people to hit the Carlin-4 twice a day. If not for social reasons, then for health and hygiene.