For some reason, one of the top topics, nay questions, that has been floating around the
internet as of late is what would happen if you stopped showering for an entire year.
While many YouTube personalities jump on opportunities to crush the latest challenge, no one jumped
on this question even if it would be a lot easier than mailing oneself across the Atlantic
(We're using the word 'mailing' loosely here).
So here are the Top 10 things that'd happen if you stopped showering for a year.
Prepare to get gross!
Up First, the Obvious, You'd Smell
The first thing that I'm sure you, and those around you, would notice if you stopped bathing,
is that you'd smell really bad.
First off, when you stop bathing you'd acquire a ton of bacteria on the top of your skin
that when mixed with your sweat, gives off an odor.
Beyond that, there are different types of sweat that your body produces which is why
your armpits tend to smell a lot faster than other parts of your body (luckily, otherwise
your entire body would just reek whenever you sweated even a little).
The sweat in your armpits actually comes from different glands than the sweat on the rest
of your body.
These glands are called eccrine glands.
Eccrine glands tend to lurk in areas that have hair, like your armpits and... you know…
other regions, whereas apocrine glands, tend to be everywhere else.
Eccrine glands produce a thicker, waxier sweat (similar to what creates earwax in your ears)
and when you mix that with the bacteria that chills in your pits (which is different from
the bacteria elsewhere on your body as well), let's just say, long story short, it's a bad
mix.
So, when you're not showering that bacteria has more room to grow, more sweat (wet or
dry) to mix with and just more dead skin cells to munch on.
That's a terrible combination and would most likely lead to all sorts of skin problems.
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You'd Most Likely End up with Brown Clumps on your Skin
As the first entry in this video showed, one of the most important aspects of bathing is
that it removes dead skin cells, bacteria, and dried sweat and/or oil from the body.
When that combination of skin by-products is left to fester, it creates all sorts of
problems one of which is that it becomes a magnet for dirt and grime.
This combination would also either cause the skin to become dry or oily, depending on the
person, as the skins natural cycle would essentially be broken as the dead skin isn't removed by
soap and water.
That means that the skin can be infected with fungus and yeast on top of the bacteria we've
already discussed, which can actually lead to clusters of warts.
Beyond that, the areas of the body where oil gathers most, like your armpits, behind your
ears, or under your breasts if you're a woman (or robust man), would have a high risk for
basically turning brown as dirt and pollutants continually mixed with the bodies natural
oils and sweat.
Basically, you'd turn into a toad person, only you would most likely give some warts
if they touched you unlike the urban legend about gaining warts from toads.
If You Got a Cut, You'd Be in Trouble
There's a reason that so many people died from infections before antibiotics including
antibiotic soap, and other things like astringents were discovered, and that's because bacteria
is everywhere even if you bathe multiple times a day.
That's why children are always taught to clean their cuts and scrapes, as you can pick up
bacteria or even viruses in the simplest of cuts and abrasions.
Multiply that risk hundred or thousand-fold if you've not been showering, as your body
would be a walking petri dish that was almost aggressively and exponentially increasing
the amount of bacteria that grew on your skin.
Don't just take it from us, a member of the American Association of Dermatology said:
"While infection may not be a concern, in the beginning, carrying a large load of bacteria
on the skin can pose a problem if the skin barrier were to become compromised in some
way, i.e. through a cut or scrape".
Youch.
Your Scalp Would Drive You CRAZY
As we've seen, the longer you go without showering the more things like oils would accumulate
on your body.
One of the places where they'd really both accumulate and cause problems would be on
your scalp.
Beyond that, showering and using shampoo help remove dead skin (and hair) from your scalp,
meaning that if you stopped showering and shampooing you'd be creating a perfect store
of oil and dead skin on your scalp.
That means that your scalp would not only itch, but begin to burn as well.
Beyond that, your hair would begin to become matted together, creating involuntary dreadlocks
that'd smell terrible and would most likely break off after a while as your scalps ecosystem
goes haywire and becomes dry in some areas.
If you learn nothing else from this video, just remember that your body is basically
an ecosystem and bathing is an important part of the process that keeps things on an even
keel.
While we're the only animals that have to jump in the water to bathe (which is a lot
better than the alternative of using our tongues), it's clearly part of how we evolved and is
something that everyone should do regularly in order to keep their exterior healthy.
That Having Been Said…
We understand that this topic may make you want to run to the nearest bathroom and start
the faucet, we really do, but at the same time there are always two ends to a spectrum
and while bathing is clearly an important part of skin, hair (and nose) health, it's
not something you want to overdo.
In fact, in terms of health, you needn't shower every single day.
Americans, or at least American men, tend to shower every single day with many showering
more than once a day and that really doesn't have any positive effect in terms of skin
and hair health when compared to people who shower every two, three or four days.
Showering daily is thought to be for aesthetics only, and really the only reason you should
bath often is if you have a compromised immune system, as you want to remove as much bacteria
from the skin in that situation as possible.
So, as long as you're not someone who sweats profusely or that has really oily hair, there's
really no reason to start or end your day with a shower or bath.
That is, of course, unless you use that time to prepare for the day or to unwind, which
adds another level to bathing that, frankly, we don't have the time to get into here (we're
too busy showering 15 times a day).
You Would Time Travel
Depending on how your skin works, regardless of your age, you'd most likely start breaking
out in acne on your face and other parts of your body where sweat accumulates.
Your body creates something called sebum, which builds up mostly on your face and clogs
pores and inflames hair follicles.
That means that you'd basically be living that recurring nightmare where the acne that
you had during Middle School returned.
So, you'd basically be traveling back in time, at least in one respect, but this time things
could get a lot worse as if or when your pimples are popped or break open you'd be at a really
high risk of developing a secondary infection.
That's what happens when people who are bed-ridden end up with bed sores, as their bodies basically
accumulate sweat at the pressure points where their bodies touch the bed.
They develop sores that fester and get so bad that they can become life-threatening
and because you're not washing your body those zits would basically just get worse and worse
until you died from them.
At least you'd go out doing what you love... sticking it to the soap companies I guess.
Then There's your Nether-Regions
Ever hear of Intertrigo?
Let's hope that you haven't, as it's just awful.
It's a type of inflammatory rash, or dermatitis, that occurs on the skin in areas that have
a large build up of sweat, urine and/or feces.
So, if you're not showering for a year, regardless of how good you wipe, you'd end up with a
yeast infection if you're lucky and a terrible case of Intertrigo if you're human.
While you can also develop Intertrigo between your fingers, toes and in your armpits, the
trifecta of disgustingness that creates the most terrible forms of Intertrigo obviously
occurs where the sun doesn't shine.
What's even worse is that most treatments for Intertrigo involve washing and drying
the area (before applying medication and then powder to keep the area dry), that's something
that wouldn't be possible if you weren't bathing, so you'd really be at risk of a terribly painful
infection that would just get worse and worse and worse.
Beyond that, even if you were lucky enough to dodge Intertrigo you'd just be horribly
uncomfortable all the time.
Toe Jam and You
You'd be doing a lot of toe touching if you stopped showering for a year as your toes
would be driving you absolutely insane.
There's a reason that people talk about "Toe Jam" and why those commercials exist where
a crappy CGI Monster is attacking some white guys toes, it's because there's a type of
fungus that loves to attack your toes and that is kept at bay by bathing with soap.
When you're not doing that, the fungus can grow unabated as would the dead skin between
the toes, creating crusty chunks of skin surrounded by fungus.
While that'd be horribly painful and itchy, what's worse is that that same fungus loves
to hang out in your groin as well (something that CGI monster never tells you), that means
that if your feet rub against your underwear while you're putting them on (which they most
likely will), you're most definitely going to end up with that same fungus going to town
on your nether-regions.
Talk about a case of the Mondays!
The Effects Would Linger
OK.
Let's say that you actually went an entire year without bathing for some reason.
Perhaps you were stranded on a landlocked mountaintop, maybe you, I don't know, gave
into an internet trend, either way, you'd think that you'd be fine if you just hopped
into the world's longest and most painful shower.
It turns out that that wouldn't be the case, as I'm sure you've surmised.
There are dermatologists who have experience with this sort of thing and they say that
in their patients that haven't washed a certain area of their body for months at a time that
it takes days or even weeks or months for that skin to return to a normal state.
When you add all of the possible diseases and fungal infections to the list (and warts,
to boot), there's a chance that you'd never return to normal (if normal is defined as
how you were before you decided to not shower for a year!).
With things like Intertrigo and Toe Jam in your junk going unabated for weeks to months,
there's a decent chance that you'd have some scarring and even loss of skin in some areas.
That's not to mention the final entry in this list video which is impossible to return from,
that is unless you're part of the Illuminati…
You Could Die
This entry is short and sweet as this entire video basically leads up to this point.
If you really couldn't wash yourself and that landlocked island was somewhere that didn't
get rain, there's a good chance that you'd develop a skin infection or multiple skin
infections that could just get worse and worse, which could lead to gangrene or sepsis, both
of which could kill you.
Beyond that, people contract things like MRSA and flesh-eating bacteria from open wounds
and so there's always the chance that you'd pick up one of those darlings when you're
walking around with open skin wounds all over your face, body and special places.
So the next time your roommate complains that you used all the hot water just let them know
that that shower time is a matter of life and death.
While this may sound hyperbolic, just go a week without a shower and test the theory,
you'll begin to notice the beginning of most things on this list, which means you'd be
playing Russian Roulette with not bathing, although it does mean that if someone calls
you out for having B.O. you can laugh it off knowing that you're just living the thug
life.
Just make sure your feet don't hit your underwear when you're not changing them.
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