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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Nov 29, 2020 20:15:37 GMT
You only have to look at Sloths. They have food growing on them, which they then eat. I think this should be an aspiration for all humans. Do hangnails count?
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Post by osgood on Nov 30, 2020 9:27:58 GMT
Incidentally, I heard on the radio that 30% of English people change an wash their bed seets once a year. Does that seem to be true?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2020 9:37:41 GMT
Incidentally, I heard on the radio that 30% of English people change an wash their bed seets once a year. Does that seem to be true? Good god no. The British have more pillowcases and sheets per capita than any other nation on earth.
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Post by oleandermedian on Nov 30, 2020 9:56:43 GMT
Did anybody else observe the tradition of the 'Sunday bath' when they were kids?
Oh yes. It made baths a really depressing experience because it meant school in the morning. Even nowadays, much as I enjoy taking a bath, every time I slip into the tub a fuckwave of doom and despair overtakes me. But it quickly passes.
I've been bathing less frequently in lockdown, yes. And it isn't because I'm home working because I've done that for years.
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Post by rayge on Nov 30, 2020 10:13:39 GMT
Incidentally, I heard on the radio that 30% of English people change an wash their bed seets once a year. Does that seem to be true? Good god no. The British have more pillowcases and sheets per capita than any other nation on earth. Truth. Just the two of us, a guest bed, and maybe half a dozen pillows, but more than 60 pillowcases, 15-20 sheets and maybe a dozen duvet covers.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 3, 2020 14:58:36 GMT
HEALTH You’re Showering Too Much Wash your hands, but lay off the other parts.
JAMES HAMBLINJULY/AUGUST 2020 ISSUE www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/hygiene-is-overrated/612235/Skotnicki believes that this is one way overwashing prompts eczema to flare in people with a genetic predisposition to the disease. While eczema itself can be debilitating, it often does not travel alone. It seems to be part of a constellation of conditions caused by immune-system misfires. Infants with eczema have an increased risk of developing allergic rhinitis or asthma in childhood, part of a cascade of immune-system overreactions known as the “atopic march.”
An out-of-balance skin microbiome isn’t just the result of too much soap and scrubbing. We’ve also exposed ourselves to preservatives with antimicrobial properties. Prime among them are parabens, which have been used for the better part of a century to extend the shelf life of many hygiene and beauty products—deodorant, makeup, toothpaste, shampoo—as well as packaged foods. In small amounts, parabens are harmless; the concern arises from cumulative exposure over decades. Virtually all of us now have parabens in our blood or on our skin, and, as intended, they destroy a wide range of bacteria and fungi. So the question isn’t whether parabens have altered our microbiomes, but how much it matters. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported, for example, that products containing parabens can block the growth of Roseomonas mucosa—a bacterium that can kill another bacterium, one that proliferates during eczema flares called Staphylococcus aureus.
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Post by tory on Dec 3, 2020 15:23:19 GMT
I don't wash as much as I used to - but that process started when I took on full-time parenting. My hair is much better for it too - I probably wash it twice a week at most and it's probably at its most luxuriant ever right now.
If I'm working at a school however, I'll shower in the morning.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Dec 3, 2020 15:27:50 GMT
Did anybody else observe the tradition of the 'Sunday bath' when they were kids? Yes, for both my brother and I. At a fairly early age we didn't bathe together and after that we'd fight to be the first one because neither of us wanted to bathe after the other. At first, my mom made the second one bathe in the same water, but we both knew how dirty each of us was. We lived in a semi-rural area and we both had dirt in our ears, necks and all over. The good thing about Sunday baths was the bubble bath and toys. I had these. But this was my prize! The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea submarine.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Dec 3, 2020 15:56:59 GMT
if i'd shared a bath with you, i would've sunk that with my pink torpedo.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Dec 3, 2020 16:00:29 GMT
Well after realising that my washing machine wasn't producing any heat for God knows how long I have started washing clothes in hot water again and I no longer stink of BO.
2020 is looking up at last!
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