I shower once a week. Here’s why you should too | Donnachadh McCarthy
by Donnachadh McCarthy from Environment | The Guardian on (#16DXM)
Daily showering is expensive, polluting and unnecessary. The old-school weekly bath or shower - with a brief daily sink-wash - is healthier for the environment, and for us
When I was a kid, bathtime was a once-a-week affair. We weren't an unhygienic family - this is just how most of us lived in the 1960s, and I do not remember any horrific body odours resulting from it. By the time I was an adult, I was showering every day. With hindsight, I should have stuck to the old ways.
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