Across much of modern life, showering every morning is treated as a basic rule of adulthood, not a choice. Yet dermatologists, microbiome researchers, and primary care doctors are increasingly clear ...

Dermatologists like Rossi think people can skip showers altogether, multiple days per week. This view isn’t unanimous, though ...

If you have a patch of dry skin, you might scrub it—like, ‘Get out, damned spot.’ But that actually counterintuitively makes it worse.” Frequent showers can also become problematic based on the type ...

Few debates rage as fiercely as the ones surrounding people’s shower habits. One man asked TikTok to settle a long-running debate between him and his wife, who disagrees with how he dries himself ...