By Mandie

November 11, 2010 8:31 AM | Link to this

I sometimes shower twice a day. Hygine is very important..we are not kids and everyone sweats and gets dirty. Please take a shower!

By Mike

November 11, 2010 9:20 AM | Link to this

There are only 2 or 3 areas of the body that generate odors. You can never take a shower or bath and still not smell if you just wash those areas. I read an article by a dermatologist who recommended doing this. He said you should also exfoliate other body parts to get rid of dead skin - using a wash cloth or a body scrubber or something like that. He said it’s better for your skin.

By Mike might smell?

November 11, 2010 9:51 AM | Link to this

Mike read one article, and now he knows the truth. He says to clean these “2 or 3 areas” (well, is it two or three, Mike(?)…and if you miss the third, (or 1st or 2nd)will you smell?…if you miss the third, what’s the point in washing the 1st or 2nd?). Exfoliating? Sounds like when fall comes and the trees shed thier leaves. If you’re going to “exfoliate”, why not wipe off the rest of your body with the bare minimum amount of “precious water”. I’d sure like you as one of my employees, Mike. I’d start the “Smell Department”, with you as the head limburger cheese. I’d hire you out to various deodorant/soap companies to help them develope products (that, according to your one dermatoligist article) will “be better for your skin”. Idiot. I bet you read one article on Obama and voted for him. Oh, he smells too, and he takes showers/baths.

By Non-smelly

November 11, 2010 10:16 AM | Link to this

Where is it written that if we don’t shower or bathe every day that we’ll smell? I have very dry skin and hardly perspire. I recently started showering everything other day and it has helped immensely. I’ve never even commented on here but just HAD to respond to all the close-minded comments. YOUR way is not the only way to do something. I seriously had to laugh at everybody being so judgmental about this.

By seriously

November 11, 2010 11:36 AM | Link to this

All you sidewalk dermatoligists need to get off your high hourse. Everyone has different types of skin issues and the body reacts to the seasons differently. The germaphobes out there are not doing yourself any favor by washing every 2 minutes, it doesn’t give your body a chance to build up an ammune system. If you stink wash. It has nothing to do with water conservation.

By Thank you, seriously...

November 11, 2010 11:53 AM | Link to this

Thank you, seriously. I believe Organ/Mike might smell/Nose are correct. BUT!!! (here comes the “but”, I believe they’ve been around some smelly people, It’ possible military (not too much hygiene in combat situations) and they can’t understand not being clean/odor free in a “shower/bath enhanced” invironment.

By K.Riley

November 11, 2010 3:13 PM | Link to this

People should shower. Especially before dates.

By Non-smelly

November 11, 2010 3:47 PM | Link to this

Wow - you guys are all so right. What on earth was I think actually using my brain to form my own thoughts and opinions about what is best for my own body instead of just doing what everybody else says and does? Thank you all for helping me see the error of my smelly ways and not realizing that my own nose, in fact, does NOT work, nor does my brain. I am forever indebted your holier than thou selves!

By Dry skin? Non-smelly?

November 11, 2010 4:19 PM | Link to this

Non-smelly: Ya know, for a dry skinned opinionated non-herd skank, you’re not too smelly, and not too bad, in my book. What does make you perspire(?)…if I may ask? If not, no wonder you’re not asked out on dates…………

By Riles

November 11, 2010 4:25 PM | Link to this

Some people like to bathe in beer with their friends…they be ‘in my book’; under silly punks with a future ahead of them.

By lather rinse repeat

November 12, 2010 8:14 AM | Link to this

Not everyone has to shower every day. However, I do. If I don’t my hair gets greasy, and it is readily apparent that I did not shower. I don’t want to look like a bum.

By Mike

November 12, 2010 8:17 AM | Link to this

It is very rare that I do not shower daily. I have great skin that does not seem to be affected by it. However, I do perspire enough to require a shower daily. My opinion, if you need one take one.

By Caveman w/irish spring

November 12, 2010 8:39 AM | Link to this

Not in the summer months. Maybe in winter PTA.

By Non-smelly

November 12, 2010 8:40 AM | Link to this

I also don’t use deodorant - GASP! And my partner thinks I smell great!

By Embrace your natural self

November 12, 2010 12:35 PM | Link to this

There is no good physical reason to wash and perfume away the natural odors of the human body. We have been socialized to believe that these odors “stink,” so we obsess about showering. Basically, by “socialized” I mean to say convinced by companies that sell us us soap, shampoo and other personal hygiene products. If you think I stink, that is your problem, not mine. I’m going to give up showering entirely.