Bathe Everyday - Over Dry Your Skin?
Askanesthetician's Blog
Cleanliness is next to godliness, right? Well it turns out that not everyone thinks so. There seems to be somewhat of a movement, a small one I gather, of people who are foregoing not only daily showers but the use of deodorant as well. I found this out by reading an article, The Great Unwashed, in The New York Times recently. People give a variety of reasons for making these lifestyle choices: a need to conserve water, potential health risks attributed to mass market deodorants (it should be pointed out that these concerns have been dismissed by experts time and again, see the actual article for more details), the feeling that one just doesn’t smell or is dirty, and that bathing daily contributes to skin conditions such as eczema. Of course the part of the article that really caught my attention was the part about how bathing daily may over dry or hurt your skin: Of late, researchers have discovered that just as the gut contains good bacteria that help it run more efficie
