Shower Once a Week (And Other Pandemic Habits That Are Okay)
As we leave the new normal and enter the new-new normal it should be interesting to see quarantine habits stick with everyone. Especially in the hygiene department. Cleanliness habits have seriously changed and it might be the perfect time to dive into what exactly we’ve been getting right and getting wrong.
Showering. Here’s something a lot of people learned for the first time in lockdown. You do not have to shower once a day and there’s no health-related reason to shower every day. In fact, it’s actually better to shower less since soap removes your skin’s natural oils.
Wash your hair as needed. Most people also eased up on their hair care routine and that’s fine too. How much, or how little, you wash your hair comes down to your hair type and your preference. If yours is thick or curly, you could easily get away with a once-a-week wash. If you tend to run greasy, an every other day schedule might feel better. The only ones pushing you to wash every day are the companies making money when you do.
Wash your hands a lot. You’re probably not washing your hands like you were at the start of the pandemic and that’s kind of a shame. Even if it’s not the pandemic beater they made it out to be, clean hands are still the key to avoiding many respiratory, diarrheal, and foodborne diseases. You might not need to sanitize until your fingers bleed every again but you should still be practicing good hand hygiene moving forward.
