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?

Why? To feel completely fresh and clean, to wake up, and to have my hair look good (sans cowlicks) as I face the day. Some days in the summer (like right now) I'll take a cool shower before bed, but I won't wash my hair. I think many of us here have white collar jobs where we don't get too grimy during the day.

Does that answer your question, OP? It's a silly one anyway.

I'm an American and I shower at night. It saves time in the morning, and my hair is better off if I sleep on it at night (especially with this humidity).

Of course, I have AC. If I didn't have AC and got sweaty overnight I'd probably be showering in the mornings and then using 5 different conditioners.

How can your hair ever look good if you don't wash and dry it when you get up?

Anonymous wrote:Haha this is interesting too. I'm the OP from the other thread. Back home we shower in the morning to "wake up" and in the evening to get the stinks out.

It's freaking hot all year long there so 2 showers a day is the minimum necessary to look decent.

Yup, all my life I've take 2 showers daily.....

I have curly hair, if I sleep on it (especially wet) it looks simply terrible in the morning. Hence, morning shower necessary or my hair looks terrible.

My husband has to shower every morning or his hair and skin are too oily. I take a quick shower every day in the summer but only wash my hair every third day. Its super curly and if I washed it every day it would be so dry!

for me, its the messy sex. and I'm a woman, so cleaning really is necessary or I'll attract stray men and dogs all day. Also, I need to do something with my hair, as I'm just not into the bed-head look, and am just not ready to shave it all off like a man.

I started showering in the morning at puberty so my hair was good for the day. Otherwise it was too oily after sleeping on it. The habit just stuck.

I will shower at night as well after a hot sweaty day. Or I will also shower at night after having sex. So there are probably 2-3 days a week I take two showers a day. Even More in the summer.

At least we shower.

I can remember visiting relatives in Europe who showered once a week, yet when they visited the States, they were in the shower EACH morning for at least 30 minutes.

Why do you care so much?

You're in the land of opportunity. Shower when you like.

Anonymous wrote:I'm from overseas and when I came here as a child I learned that here people shower in the mornings as opposed to the evening like back home. I mean, I assume your sheets are clean (well they aren't anymore if you go to bed without showering first, but they would be if you did shower in the evenings) so why do you think you get so dirty at night that you need to shower in the morning? Unless you have night sweats or messy sex at night, why shower in the morning rather than evening? I like showering before bed because I'm still clean for the next day (unless I have sweats) and it feels better going to bed that way.

Anonymous wrote:My hair is very fine and can be greasy. If I shower at night, then sleep on it, there is no way it will be presentable for work, no matter how I style it.

+1 unless I live my life in a ponytail, I need to wash it every morning.

I shower in the morning, rarely at night. My hair looks horrible after I sleep on it, and my face is very very oily. Basically, I wouldn't look presentable if I didn't shower in the a.m.

I'm American and have long hair that takes a while to dry. I shower at night. I like to go to bed clean. I do not shower in the morning. My husband showers in the morning because his hair is a disaster if he doesn't. Think a lot of people shower n the morning to wake themselves up, due to habit or blow dry and style their hair.

I take a quick shower to rinse off before bed and then take a proper shower in the morning. I tend to run warm at night and feel gross in the mornings. Plus, I have curly hair and if I don't want to look like I just stuck my finger in an outlet, I need to wash it in the mornings.

I shower in the evening and again in the morning bc atvnight I have sex and I breastfeed ( not at thecsame time of course). I find thst I need to wash away the smell of sour milk and sex.

I also use a specific type of body wash that wakes me up in the morning.

After my morning shower I feel freash and clean andcready to conquer the world.