You may be seeing elaborate shower cleansing routines on social media: daily exfoliation, double cleansing, antibacterial soap, loads of scented body scrubs and shower oils.
“I’m kind of appalled by the shower routines,” said Dr. Olga Bunimovich, a practicing dermatologist and assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
The multistep processes that have inspired people to spend endless amounts of time sudsing up can harm your skin — and the environment. Dermatologists say it’s all mostly unnecessary.
“Your skin is a barrier,” said Dr. Nicole Negbenebor, a dermatologic surgeon at University of Iowa Health Care. “It’s one of the biggest barriers you have. It’s you in your natural elements. So you want to treat it right, and then sometimes there can be too much of a good thing.”
The elaborate routines are corporate propaganda to encourage needless consumerism.
If you enjoy something fancier, by all means go ahead but don’t stress yourself over it.
Using anti-microbial/bacterial soap is one of the worst things you can do for you skin. They kill all the microflora of your skin indiscriminately which leave it open colonization by other bacteria which are not beneficial or actively harmful.
It’s the same as using herbicide to kill dandelions in your garden and killing everything else along with the dandelions. Then a few months later you wake up to find that instead of those dandelions and other plants you got poison ivy growing now.
Personally I shower twice a year whether I need it or not.
Not much you can do to improve on that kind of perfection anyhow.
It’s also bad in general -the more antibiotics people use, the more quickly bacteria evolve to not be affected by antibiotics.
You may be seeing elaborate shower cleansing routines on social media: daily exfoliation, double cleansing, antibacterial soap, loads of scented body scrubs and shower oils.
No, because I actively avoid sites that have endless scrolling short form video feeds.
Only morons need an influencer’s advice on how to shower.
Only morons need an influencer
“Lather, rinse. Repeat.”
That last word by itself ballooned profits immensely when added to the label on bottles.
Think about the typical toothpaste picture on the box, a big long snake of paste, too long in fact to fit on the brush, it has to curl up and back a bit. That much makes one look like a rabid animal overflowing with froth, and is just excessive.
Think about the typical toothpaste picture on the box, a big long snake of paste, too long in fact to fit on the brush, it has to curl up and back a bit.
The best part is the instructions on the box with that picture say to use a pea sized amount!
You may be seeing elaborate shower cleansing routines on social media
Not really because I learned how to wash myself a long time ago and it’s been working out for me fine? I don’t know why people have to complicate everything.
Lol wut
I mean… If you’re trying to clean yourself, exfoliation is kinda necessary and part of what happens when you scrub yourself anyway. You want all that nasty dead skin on you?
Everything else is optional, sure. And anti-bacterial soap is actually more damaging in the long run. For you and everyone else. And you definitely don’t need fancy microbeads to exfoliate; if you want a new thing to use, use one of those new microfiber cloths that feel kinda awful to touch. They feel that way becsuse they’re grabbing on that dead skin and work hella good as a wash cloth.
Skin sloughs off naturally and requires no scrubbing. It isn’t nasty dead skin, just dead skin; no big deal. Get some dirt off, maybe excess but not all oils off, and you’re good.
