Posted on 06/25/2019 2:25:28 PM PDT by Red Badger
Amidst the no-shampoo revolution, a look at global hygiene habits
Cleanliness, it turns out, has been one dirty trick. One reason early-20th-century Americans ramped up their weekly baths to daily showers is that marketing companies capitalized on the insecurities of a new class of office drones working in close quarters. As Gizmodo wrote last week, to sell products like "toilet soap" and Listerine to Americans, "the advertising industry had to create pseudoscientific maladies like 'bad breath' and 'body odor.'"
Take, for instance, Gizmodo's description of the philosophy of the Cleanliness Institute, which was founded by the Association of American Soap and Glycerine Producers:
The trade association wanted Americans to wash quite unwittingly after toilet, to wash without thought before eating, to jump into the tub as automatically as one might awake each new day.
And so we did. A Reddit user recently polled 562 people and found that most men said they showered daily. Women's bathing rituals were more diffuse, but about 60 percent preferred to shower three, four, or five times weekly.
Now is the dawn of a new, more pungent era, though. People are snapping up dry shampoo and No-Poo and coating themselves in bacteria. Dr. Sanjay Jain recently told Jezebel that "showers don't need to be too hot, or too long, and you should always pat dry, rather than rub, to avoid irritating your skin." One family went six months without using soap and raved about the results.
But as it turns out, Americans aren't alone when it comes to having overdone it with too-frequent showers and shampoos.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Yeah? Then do not click this link. Do not look at these photos.
Saturday night bath used to be the standard.......
Like The Spanish Princess!....
***One family went six months without using soap and raved about the results.***
But what did the people around them think? I’ve been around people who could stink up a gymnasium just by walking in the door. Others stank so bad we could not work around them, they were put in areas where they could not gag other people.
-PJ
My aunt was a school teacher in a high school in rural East Texas back in the 1960’s. Spring time was in bloom and the kids were getting ripe. So she suggested to the kids to get a bath over the weekend. One big goof kid said, “Oh no, not the river again”.
ZERO %
When the first Jesuit missionaries arrived in Japan in the 16th century and discovered that the Japanese believed in bathing every day, it was very strange to them. As Europeans they probably believed that once a year was enough.
More “Your personal hygiene is killing the planet” propaganda.
“Saturday night bath used to be the standard.......”
Yeah, lots of other things were also standard back then too like outhouses, Cholera, etc.
I’ve heard India is a dirty country.
They must have immune systems that would kill anything.
Saturday night bath used to be the standard.......
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Some also used church nights as bath nights.
They call foul breath and body odor a false crisis. If you’ve been near a bad case of it, the crisis is not false.
It’s not just cows that float dead in the Ganges...
“If over 70% of the US shower daily (1st chart). Yet on average the US takes only 4 showers a week (2nd Chart).
Then 70%*7 + 30%*x = 4 showers per week.
Solving for x =
.3x = 4 - .7*7
.3x = 4 - 4.9
.3x = -0.9
x= -0.9/.3 = -3.
The 30% are taking negative 3 showers a week.”
This is how Biden beats Trump in the poles. It’s the new math.
It was when I was a kid, at least in my family, but my folks were from the rural south, and grew up without running water. I think most of the other people in my neighborhood probably bathed more often, by habit. And I would guess that training in the armed services taught most men to bathe or shower more frequently, when they had the opportunity, of course. And our bathroom didn’t even HAVE a shower -— just a tub, as was common in many older homes.
You cannot be ‘too clean’ health experts warn
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/24/cannot-clean-health-experts-warn-bid-debunk-myths/
The article says that Sweden is the only country where men shower more than women, but the accompanying graph shows U.S. men showering much more often than women; they shower “Once per day” less than women because they shower more than once per day more often.
Oh no. Please don’t tell me the next envirowacko idea is for people not to bathe.
Ya, they dumped their “....” in the streets. Probably stunk and diseases were common.
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