How often?

I've heard so many different answers to this. Some that we should be showering twice a day and other answers that say it isn't good to shower every day because we get rid of oils and stuff that we actually need.

I massively prefer baths and have them regularly so fairly sure I don't smell. About every other day. Hair washing is more of a problem as I really don't like showers very much. Probably only once a week. It seems to survive fine so don't know whether it's actually an issue.

The human body does produce it’s own defences, if you wash your hands to often or use a strong cleaner it takes out the oils that occur naturally in the skin. This leaves The pours open to instant infection. So use an emollient or barrier cream after washing hands if you work with anything likely to cause irritation, 

bakers itch is infection of the skin by flour in bakeries. It dries the natural defences and gets into the skin.

 Dermatitis from dust or oil is because it gets past the natural defences we should produce. 

I watched a tv programme that proved women who wash to much down below suffer with a lot of infection. Applying powder or deodorant removes or prevents natural defences.

They asked each women how often they bathed etc, then did tests, the so called dirtiest women was by far the cleanest in respect of bacterial infection.

As with all things in life a balance is needed. 

And each person can be more acidic or alkaline in how there body is. Which is why a perfume that smells wonderful on one person smells like stale lager on another, 

The human body does produce it’s own defences, if you wash your hands to often or use a strong cleaner it takes out the oils that occur naturally in the skin. This leaves The pours open to instant infection. So use an emollient or barrier cream after washing hands if you work with anything likely to cause irritation, 

bakers itch is infection of the skin by flour in bakeries. It dries the natural defences and gets into the skin.

 Dermatitis from dust or oil is because it gets past the natural defences we should produce. 

I watched a tv programme that proved women who wash to much down below suffer with a lot of infection. Applying powder or deodorant removes or prevents natural defences.

They asked each women how often they bathed etc, then did tests, the so called dirtiest women was by far the cleanest in respect of bacterial infection.

As with all things in life a balance is needed. 

And each person can be more acidic or alkaline in how there body is. Which is why a perfume that smells wonderful on one person smells like stale lager on another,