Have you been told since you were little that you should take a bath every day? Well, it occurred to a scientist to experiment not to bathe for five years, and according to what he says, it is not necessary to do it so often
Despite the fact that we all know that bathing should be a regular practice because it helps us stay clean and free of bacteria, an American scientist went viral when he announced that he had not taken a single bath for five years, refuting this claim. .
James Hamblin is the name of the scientist who also works as a professor at the Yale University School of Public Health, and in 2015 he made the decision not to take a single bath for the sole purpose of showing that there is no "need medical "to do so.
We spend two full years of our lives bathing. How much of that time (and money and water) is a waste? He declared.
I know of many people who bathe very little. I knew it was possible, but wanted to try it myself to see what the effect would be, said the preventive medicine specialist.
After five years of being absent from the water, the scientist assured that he is much more than satisfied, since the results showed him that the body is gradually getting used to not having to use soap, shampoo and even deodorant.
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Over time, your body gets more and more used to it so it doesn’t smell so bad if you don’t use deodorant and soap. And your skin doesn’t get as greasy when you stop using harsh soaps. Many people use a shampoo to remove oils from their hair and then apply a conditioner to add synthetic oils. If you manage to break that circle, your hair will end up looking the way it did when you first started using those products.
For Hamblin it was difficult from the beginning to have done this experiment, since it was inevitable that he would miss soap and water to feel clean and fresh, however, he also declared that that strange sensation was passing little by little, until he finally felt comfortable with it.
The main thing is to understand that it takes time to see the effects, it does not happen overnight, it is not immediate. There were times when I wanted to shower because I missed it, it smelled bad, and I felt like it was greasy. But that began to happen to me less and less.
He also revealed that by bathing excessively "you alter a kind of balance between the oils in the skin and the bacteria that live", thereby destroying ecosystems, and despite the rapid repopulation of species, they remain unbalanced.
Your ecosystem reaches a stable state and you stop smelling bad. You don’t smell like rose water… You just smell like a person, the scientist assured.