There is usually at least one story in the Sunday New York Times that is a "talker" and today was no exception. It appears that there is some controversy over daily bathing/deoderant/hair washing and lots of 20 and 30-somethings are rebelling -- as in, not showering daily or using deoderant.
As someone who has bathed daily (except sometimes while camping) and washes her hair every day and also uses deoderant, I guess this isn't the trend for me, but I have noticed some people who seemed to have embraced it. You know the ones. Find 'em at Briar Patch, usually smelling a little ripe, greasy hair pulled back into a ponytail.
The reasons given for not bathing daily are: 1. Is it necessary? and 2. It's environmentally better to save that water. The reasons given for no deoderant are more along the lines of "what's in this stuff, anyway?" Kind of like how vaccines got a bad rap for supposedly causing autism, deoderant is apparently full of weird chemicals that possibly aren't good for you.
I understand all this intellectually, but am I a bad person for still bathing daily and continuing to use deoderant? Seems a tad weird -- and less than sanitary -- to me.
I join you in the shower-a-day club. And SO excited you are back to blogging! No more seven month breaks for you! :)
Posted by: Aaron Klein | November 16, 2010 at 07:01 PM
Hey, I'm with you!
Well, I'm not actually with anyone when I shower daily, but I count on it to wake up, limber up and start the day feeling energized and alive!
I'm sorry about the extra water ... but I like to pretend that being on well water sort makes it a wash, pardon the pun.
I suppose eventually we'll find out that daily bathing increases the risk of heart disease and cancer!
In the meantime, I'm gonna keep lovin' it.
Posted by: Don Pelton | November 02, 2010 at 04:05 AM