Do we 'need' to shower/bath everyday?

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Personally I shower once a day and use a daily exfoliator and hydrating cream but being someone that is interested in the science and biology I sometimes wonder how necessary it really is to have a daily shower/bath even when we're not leading an active lifestyle, and whether it does more harm than good, I can't help feeling sometimes that it's unhealthy taking away our natural oils everyday, oils that help keep our skins elasticity which in turn helps us look more youthful as we age.

I'm not proposing that we shouldn't be hygienic but I perhaps feel that we may be going a little to far?, I have a couple of friends that say they shower at least twice a day as if it's a badge of honer, but is that really healthy?

 

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you don't need to in biological terms but you may smell if you don't/

True, the need to shower/bath daily I suppose can also depend to how susceptible you are to sweating and emitting odours but we are all different in that regards, it takes a lot for me to work up a sweet