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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work for a international company and have to do trade shows all over the world and HOLY SHIT, the body odor at some of these shows-especially France and Germany is overwhelming (dont' get me started on India, Malaysia, Dubai, and Cairo....that is just a whole other level of odor, that I'd like to just forget).  I feel like the Europeans are clean (unlike the above other areas), but their BO, it is just like they don't use deodorant. The business suits and the lack of A/C, the smell can bring tears to my eyes.

For me, I do shower in the morning, I normally have sex with my DH and don't exactly want to go into the office smelling "ripe".  In the summer, I usually shower and rinse off before bed. Don't most people? I thought that was the norm? Seems from the responses it is.

So WHY do Americans shower twice a day?[/quote]

The thing is that if we as Americans didn't shower daily, we'd actually get used to a little BO smell.  And I don't think that would be a bad thing.  We actually waste a lot of water with washing hair daily.

That said, I shower daily, but I do it at night before I go to bed.  I have long hair and I let it air dry.  But I don't necessarily think that I'm culturally superior because I shower daily.  In fact, I think we're spoiled and wasteful and a bit prissy.  But I'll admit I'm not going to be the first to give up my daily shower.  
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I don't think we're prissy and spoiled because we don't care to smell like a Philly cheesesteak with extra onions or old hotdog water. [/quote]

Ew.  Anyway, the previous PP has a point, not that I'd give up my daily shower either!  I think showering daily is a relatively new phenomenon, even in this country.  I think it's only been since maybe the 1960s that we shower daily.  Women certainly didn't wash their hair every day like many do now (including me).  It's only since "wash and wear" hairstyles that we do that.  Before that, you'd get it "set" once a week and that was it.  And I don't think people necessarily smelled.  They still washed with soap and water.  They'd do what my joker dad calls a "French whore's bath"... like your face, pits, and privates.  That's all you really need to not smell.  [/quote]

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