Experts say it is not necessary to take bath everyday

Are you the one who hates taking shower and is looking for a credible stamp of approval to justify that you shouldn't take bath? Well, you have it. Experts say that taking daily shower has no proven health benefit.

"Why are we washing? Mostly because we’re afraid somebody else will tell us that we’re smelling," environmentalist Donnachadh McCarthy told the BBC.

McCarthy, who is the author of the book named 'Prostitute State', says he takes a bath once per month to purportedly help the environment. He claims that this is inspired by spending two weeks in the Amazon with the indigenous Yanomami people.

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McCarthy claimed that he opts for a wash at the sink, using a cloth to give his body a scrub.

Manhattan dermatologist DrJulie Russak previously told The New York Post that long and daily showers could strip away the "skin's microbiome", which plays a role in protecting the skin and is "also extremely important in overall health of the body."

A chemist named David Whitlok claimed to have not taken shower for 12 years.

"Tell anyone who mocks you that they are betraying profound ignorance of the skin microbiome, and then walk away," David Whitlock told the Vice.

In 2021, researchers at Harvard Health found that 66 per cent of Americans shower every day. Way before in 2005, a report claimed that it is common for Brits to shower once or twice per day.

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"We wash our bodies so much more than we did in the past," Dale Southerton, Professor of Sociology of Consumption at the University of Bristol, who co-authored the report, told the Beeb.

"The change has mostly come about over the past 100 years, and it was not planned. In fact, it seems to have happened almost by accident."

(With inputs from agencies)