🧵 Is the human body never meant to get wet?
Anonymous at Sun, 26 May 2024 23:33:25 UTC No. 16194964
If our skin is meant to have a delicate microbiome of bacteria and yeasts, that basically get washed off with exposure to water and resets the skin to a ground zero that one must build up all over again, are we actually evolved to never wash our skin with water, let alone any form of surfactant? Or even to allow dust and dirt to do the work of exfoliating residues off, much like every other mammal that only takes dust baths?
Anonymous at Sun, 26 May 2024 23:42:37 UTC No. 16194982
indians never shower and they have the worst looking skin of any race on the planet
Anonymous at Sun, 26 May 2024 23:43:59 UTC No. 16194987
>>16194964
oh brother this guy stinks
Anonymous at Sun, 26 May 2024 23:46:10 UTC No. 16194991
>>16194964
OP is a stankin' ass bitch that need to wash up.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 00:04:00 UTC No. 16195010
>>16194964
I think this whole "delicate microbiome" thing is just kinda 'tarded. I bathe in a dilute combination of hypochlorite and percarbonate to generate oxygen singlets. I naturally don't have much BO, but I can do like 3 days without deodorant after an oxygen singlet bath.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 00:29:07 UTC No. 16195042
>>16195010
>I bathe in a dilute combination of hypochlorite and percarbonate to generate oxygen singlets.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 00:56:40 UTC No. 16195060
>>16194964
All animals get wet, name one that doesn't.
Checkmate.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 01:08:01 UTC No. 16195072
>>16195060
Sparingly and not for bathing, usually for crossing if they have to. Plus they have fur and don't have their naked skin exposed like us
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 01:09:24 UTC No. 16195074
>>16194982
They might be smelly but their hair is usually fully moisturized/oiled and the best looking on the planet, and id imagine their skin isn't far behind. Is this due to their averse showering habits?
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 01:20:10 UTC No. 16195094
you think cavemen ever got rained on or waded through bodies of water?
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 01:53:01 UTC No. 16195125
>>16195094
They did, and then they had the month or so of rebuilding the surface microbiome, where the modern man is expected to shower daily.
They also lived the much more natural lives that our bodies were evolved to live, replete with dust to add nitrates, heavily mineralized water, and probably even some skin parasites that our bodies are evolved to regulate with.
Showering (not even immersing) in treated chlorinated city water and rubbing formulated chemicals all over is probably completely foreign to our skin and does nothing for it
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 01:58:22 UTC No. 16195128
>>16195072
What animal posts on the internet and lives in a house? Maybe you should unplug from the system before you stop washing your ass.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 11:29:08 UTC No. 16195658
>>16194982
Then again they bathe in the Ganges.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 11:42:56 UTC No. 16195671
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 12:03:07 UTC No. 16195686
>>16194964
Water monkey theory
Shower and clean your room, faggot
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 12:23:32 UTC No. 16195705
>>16195010
I have heard nanobubble baths are the best at cleaning your skin. I want to get a machine that makes them. But not sure where. It makes the water look like milk.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 12:35:51 UTC No. 16195714
>>16194991
Yeah, OP needs soap and water
>>16194964
>that basically get washed off with exposure to water and resets the skin to a ground zero
Source?
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 12:41:31 UTC No. 16195719
>>16195705
If the water is clearn it should be white as snow, not off-white like milk.
Also microdrops are super efficient at cleaning anything, even skin and clothing. Read up on the "fog gun".
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 13:03:37 UTC No. 16195740
>>16195719
Snow and milk have the same color.
It may be that you're thinking of some fat rich milk or something that's popular in your country.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 13:09:40 UTC No. 16195748
>>16194964
>that basically get washed off with exposure to water and resets the skin to a ground zero that one must build up all over again
long answer: 1/2
The chlorine in tap water doesn't kill all the bacteria on your skin, that's why we also use soap to mechanically remove them away. Even if you scrub your skin with soap, there are always bacteria left behind.
Rain water doesn't kill the bacteria on your skin, nor dislodge them all from the sebum in your skin either. The same goes for river or lake water.
Salt water is full of bacteria, so even thought the chlorine in it might kill, partially, the ones on your skin, it seeds it with new fresh ones that were in sea water, though those end up dying soon since your skin being exposed to the air, is not sea water where they are adapted to line in.
To attempt to kill all bacteria on your skin you need to use alcohol, antibacterial soap, antibiotic ointments, peroxides, UV radiation, etc, and even so, it will only kill 99.999(etc)% of all the bacteria.
What is the best option for your skin health? Non-chlorinated fresh water to rinse, and mild vegetable-based soap to wash the regions of your body where bacterial colonies tend to grown intensively and therefore, stink (axillae, genitals, gluteal cleft, scalp).
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 13:10:42 UTC No. 16195750
>>16194964
2/2
However, some people have skin/sebum chemistry that benefits some type of bacteria species over others, and some species are much more malodorous variants. This is why some people, though they just finished showering, and they put on freshly washed clothing, within 5 minutes they are smelling strongly nonetheless, to their great confusion:
The regular washing did not eliminate all bacteria from their skin, and the regular laundry washing did not kill all the bacteria in the clothing fibers. As soon as a little bit of moisture (sweat) is given to the bacteria in the clothing by wearing it, they immediately begin reproducing and smelling bad.
Those people have to resort to not only antibacterial soap for their axillae, but also disinfect their clothing with bleach or other disinfectants, or even spin their shirts inside a microwave to cook them all away before putting on their clothing.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 13:22:10 UTC No. 16195756
I just shower and never use soap
Ez.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 14:05:37 UTC No. 16195813
>>16195756
Some people are lucky enough like that. I dated a korean girl who never had to wear deodorant, much less antiperspirant. It was quite incredible.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 14:28:04 UTC No. 16195860
>>16195748
Wwhat are the chances that bacteria still survive in Demodex?
>>16195813
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCC1
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 14:52:24 UTC No. 16195909
>>16195860
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCC
interesting, thank you, always learning.
>Demodex
Great question! Well, I'm no specialist on that, but if I had to guess, the bacteria within them are more protected than those exposed to the water as the OP described. I would therefore reasonably guess they are more likely to survive.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 15:05:09 UTC No. 16195932
>>16195860
Shame it correllates with looking gooky.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 15:44:28 UTC No. 16195993
>>16195748
>hypochlorite
i only wash my armpits asshole and feet with soap, in this order, the hair i don't even use shampoo anymore since i rock a buzz cut, i was my face with soap once in a while, if it gets too oily, the rest of your body pretty much self cleans when you change clothes... of course if i do something that gets me really dirty i will use soap everywhere
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 18:57:04 UTC No. 16196281
>>16195932
I didn't think looks were important on 4chan. Anyway, if they can do gene editing in the future, it would save a lot of deodorants and chemicals. I always wondered how plugging shut sweat glands pores was not unhealthy. A bigger problem is that these genes also relate to dry ear wax which leads to itching.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 19:17:22 UTC No. 16196308
>>16194964
we are actually made to live under water
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 19:40:53 UTC No. 16196326
>>16195993
it sounds like you're doing it right, nice.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 21:41:48 UTC No. 16196570
>>16195010
>I bathe in a dilute combination of hypochlorite and percarbonate to generate oxygen singlets.
Or you can add hydrogen peroxide to the bathwater.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 21:52:37 UTC No. 16196598
>>16195705
>I have heard nanobubble baths are the best at cleaning your skin. I want to get a machine that makes them. But not sure where. It makes the water look like milk.
Nano-Bubble Water from Japan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mvBiH
Green Water Solutions - safely cleaning the worlds water with Nano Bubble Ozone Technology (NBOT)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxc0d
Topical application of oxygen nano‐bubble water enhances the healing process of ischaemic skin wound healing in an animal model
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar
In the ischaemic wound model group, the wound‐healing rates of the O2NBW subgroup showed significantly faster healing rates on days 3, 6, 9, 11, and 13 (Table 4). These results suggested that a large amount of oxygen accelerates wound healing compared with the control subgroups.