I feel like y’all need to have a series called “The Rabbit Hole” where y’all just tell us about all the research and things you found that didn’t make it into the video
You’ve proved it IS possible to talk about personal hygiene without shaming people. It’s such a hard topic to talk about because people confuse what is healthy with what is baseline and with what is entirely optional. As someone on the “stinkier” end of the spectrum because I’m SO sensitive to artificial smells it feels like trying to talk to people about what we can do for ourselves is about as helpful as talking to a brick wall
The fact that so much research is funded by people with something to sell or people who have ulterior motives is something that continues to make me seethe. At least the examples in the video are reporting those funding them, not every study actually does, people will lie about not having conflicts of interest when they absolutely do have a conflict of interest and it drives me wild
@@Asgar06 yeah at some point you gotta just ignore it because youtubers wouldn't be able to afford to provide us quality content without sponsors, sadly
On the one hand, the companies developing (and selling) these products are the ones who have the most interest in these studies being done. On the other, they also have interest in the studies having certain conclusions sometimes. It's tough to discern which studies a company financed because the result is important to their development and research and which ones they financed because the result is important to their marketing team.
I appreciated the acknowledgment that mental heath impacts hygiene. Having both depression and ADHD, it is so unbelievably hard for me to find the energy and motivation to clean myself, even when I’m literally miserable and feel disgusting.
"Now, there's been a depressive episode or two that's taken me to the stinky depths" Wow. That was much too real, and reminded me of the literal years I've lost to depression. Even when it's left, it's never really, completely gone, is it ? Hope you've taken great care of yourself since then, and still find the will to do so everyday for as long as possible. And as always, great content. The quality is consistently top notch, and the videos are always informative, keep up the good work!
I know this video isn't about the rubber ducks. Having said that, i have an idea that might help that one who keeps falling over. Most rubber ducks have a small hole in the bottom. So maybe if you squeeze a little air out, and suck up just a little water, it might help. We want enough weight centered at the base to counter that tipping force. However we do not want so much weight that it sinks. ❤
Weaves for black women would actually be a great related episode to that. It's like hygiene in the sense that it's a personal beauty choice, but it fundamentally comes from traumatic race shaming of black women's natural hair
So, during my last year at uni I wrote a paper on the chemistry of the make up industry and the conclusion was... Wash your face with a cleaning agent. Soap works. Use a moisturiser. Use sunscreen when you go outside Everything else is fancy dressing to sell you a product. A product you probably don't need. You cannot stop your skin from aging. You can look after the skin you have.
"Make-up industry" is not the same as the skincare industry. It's no fault to be more educated and aware of what you use inside and outside your body. -No legitimate dermatologist ever said you can stop aging, there are actions you can take to reduce your aging from diet and exercise, to skin care, to simply staying away from direct sunlight and your pillow covers. -A chemistry student of all people should realize the different reactions from each cleansing agent as they're not just the same. Generic soap doesn't work especially for the face as it's more sensitive compared to the rest of the body, gentle cleansers are the way to go, especially for someone with naturally very sensitive skin and/or dry skin. -The ingredients matter and at the same time consumers don't know which ones are good or bad, that's why there's a market, and also why there's dermatologists educating consumers. If you start taking a supplement, with no clue what's inside thinking "Well it's just a supplement, it supplements nutrients", that could have lethal consequences.
Any industry that blurs the line between medicine and anything else more subjective, like beauty, benefits from a lot of confusion and "figure it out yourself" strategy. If the entire skincare industry prescribed a somewhat definite routine, or even just a few routines depending on skin conditions and desired results, then if people tried it and found it didn't work, they would just stop doing it. But as it is now, if you find a routine, use it, and it doesn't cure your acne, doesn't make you look younger, and possibly causes other issues, the immediate tendency is to assume you're doing it wrong and buy a bunch more products.
I started wearing moisturizer daily at age 12. I did it because my dermatologist gave me something to wash with to help with my minimal acne. I'm now 62. My cleanser is different now that I don't have acne, but I still wash my face.
Now you need to make a follow-on video about how people are being sold soap to get rid of oil from their skin, and then are being sold moisturizers to put that oil back in. Hmmm.
honestly I need the cleansers and soap. My skin is very oily, every day when I go in the shower, the water doesn't touch my skin but rolls off the thin invisible looking waxy coating on my skin. If I rub my fingers against it, every day dead skin cells come off, and if I don't remove it I get spots, my face too. So the strong/oil stripping shower gels and a decent cleanser that can get the dirt out of the pores and allow me to scrub off the dead skin cells on my face is needed for me, followed by the moisturiser so my skin is not dry. The times when I don't wash it, the dead skin cells just build up and I can rub them off in little rolls if I rub my face. Hydrating products like essences, sheet masks etc reduce the frequency and amount of dead skin cells that build up even more, so when I can afford it I swear by them. I also developed a wrinkle in my forehead and when I use the very hydrating essences etc, it almost disappears, which is why Koreans swear by these steps, because the hydration keeps your skin nice and alleviates further problems too. Interestingly the only product that my skin doesn't like is SPF because even just SPF15 makes my skin break out terribly, even foreign formulations that are meant to be better. But skincare is all optional. In reality, you could do no skincare and probably wouldn't get skin cancer if you don't live in a particularly hot/sunny place or are POC. So each to their own really.
This is actually a very basic concept that it feels like you've bent over backward to misrepresent here. Dirt and contaminants get on your skin, dissolved in oil. Wash off the dirty oil. Replace with clean oil (i.e. moisturizers). It's how we clean.... everything, really.
that part where she said "I'm talking to the engineering students" 😂I'm dying of laughter. I may be comp sci not engineering, but still, that was perfect!
I love your videos, but there's a conflict of interests here. You can't have honest analysis and critique towards the skincare industry while being sponsored by a skincare company. The conclusion "do what feels best for you" seems like a copout, when much of that feeling is often shaped by predatory profit motivated industry marketing. It would have been great to have a doctor and/or a dermatologist or two to give their view of the matter.
Is there a conflict of interest? Absolutely. However, the fact that it includes the opposite side still raises the credibility of the video a good amount
In my country (Brazil), hygiene is a HUGE part of everyone's routine and being socially accepted and I think it's definitely a taboo. We live in a tropical country and we have a inclusion of cultures where showering is something you do daily, multiple times a day, and these mainly come from natives when this land was colonised. With all that, soap and toothpaste and deodorant and moisturizer and face creams are something almost integral to our routines.
Eu tava pensando nisso, muita gente nos comentários dizendo que você deve tomar banho 2x por semana e eu: Oi? 😂😂 eu como brasileira tomando banho 3x por dia
really interesting video topic, awesome work !! i feel so much pressure as a woman to stay looking young forever. it's a losing game. time comes for us all and in any case, there are things i'd rather focus on than looking beautiful. every time i go down that path trying to look better i just end up thinking about how i look wayyy more often than i should. so i gotta stick to the basics and try and keep it to health,
I have found that showering every day and using shampoo have negative effects on my skin, because too many oils get stripped away by the shampoo, and my skin ends up being too moist or too dry (depending on where it is). I experimented with this when one of my black friends mentioned having to put oil in kids' hair, which I thought, "that doesn't seem like something people would have done 300 years ago..." I've generally found just washing every other day with water works best, although if you're doing a sweaty job, that doesn't exactly work, and I'm sure it's different depending on PH and humidity where you live. I will use soap with bodily fluids or heavy dirt. Also in a dry climate, showering makes me feel much more awake in the morning, so I do it too much, to the detriment of my skin health. I wonder if there's another way to my face feeling less droopy. I do use soap on my hands religiously, but am aware that having healthy bacteria on your hands is part of prevention for scary diseases as well, so I try to avoid sanitizer in most situations, unless there just isn't a place to wash my hands. I now understand that my 7th grade science fair project that compared how deadly bleach, soap, and anti-bacterial soap were to bacteria kinda misses the point (sure, bleach kills more, but also is worse to ingest than 95% of the bacteria out there)
i get what you’re saying, but hair oiling is something that goes back thousands of years. it’s generally something that’s benefits depend on your hair texture + how much oil your scalp produces, and less based on how often someone washes their hair.
@@gremlinlad3671: Cool! For me, I found my scalp was producing about 5 times as much oil as it needed because I was stripping it every day with shampoo and my body was compensating. Once I stopped doing that, after a while the oil levels in my hair stabilized and I didn't need shampoo anymore. (2 weeks after stopping, my hair was gross, now it's naturally a little oily but not gross and I almost never use shampoo) I understand that for people with different hair and scalps things can be different. But the amount of oil my scalp produced seemed to be correlated to how much shampoo I use.
damn did sabrina get a new light setup?? she's truly radiant and glowing here (but perhaps because of the Product Placement lmao) jokes aside tho this is a question i've been wondering for a bit so ofc aip gets on top of it!! thanks 4 the cool vid 👍
I've ben thinking about this for weeks, because I use hand soap and a facial cleanser but I haven't used soap on my body in over 10 years. It started because of issues I had with normal soaps, and then I gave up and started washing with just water unless I was actually dirty from like oil or paint or something. The thing is, I'm clean: I smell fine, I look fine, no one's ever commented on it (and my sister would). So then I realised that why would I ever need to wash my belly with soap? it's literally always covered with cloth, the only thing dirting it is myself, and I'm pretty sure that, from an evolutionary standpoint, your skin doesn't produce dirt that can't be washed away with water. Why are so many people obsessed with bodywash then? It's just cultural panic and good marketing, I guess.
environment, culture, religion, climate, etc probs play a role too. and so do genetics. i can go dayssss and even more than a week without washing my hair and itll be fine but my aunt cant go past 1 day and im sure body oil production works differently for people in that way too. also its super hot and humid where i live and we have awful air pollution that together create this weird sticky film that NEEDS soap and water. its defo not one size fits all.
@AmiCestLaVie for sunscreen, sure, but I don't like the sun or sunny climates so usually I only have sunscreen in my face that I need to wash off. Sweat is mostly just water, and it washes off fine with just warm water; I do use excess shampoo to remove deodorant though.
@@Cationna Yes, and if I put something oily on my skin I'll remove it appropriately, but the vast majority of time I'm just washing off the little bit of sweat that my body produced. Never in my entire life has my back, for example, felt oily just because. Unlike my face, wich tends to get really oily, the rest of my skin generally feels soft and nice, not sticky or anything (but my body-skin tends to be on the drier side). I think your body mostly gets used to whatever you put on it regularly.
I am allergic to perfume(d products), so what I want is for people to use less. Be aware that when I can smell it, it means that the particles that I am allergic to are touching me. It isn't just ON your skin.
I really liked this video. You dispelled some myths about soap and also went into the history about it, but not telling people what to do. I keep seeing videos saying you don't need soap or shampoo. Sorry I like those things. If I don't use shampoo my hair gets REALLY oily and it feels gross and greasy and kinda sticks together so it makes my already thinning hair look even thinner. Also I run hot and when I don't wash with soap for a bit the oils on the skin hold in the heat and I feel so hot, and I live in Phoenix and hate the heat so I'm always hot. I love taking a shower and then feeling nice and cool for a couple days. Without soap my BO is immediate and deodorant can only cover so much.
I'm kind of torn. I also didn't have a whole stake in skin care - pretty much just like Sabrina - and then I developed rosacea at age 32. So I went to the Dr like Taha and now I went from zero to 60 and I'm on the 10-step Korean Skincare plan (sans Toner). Seriously it's so frustrating having absolutely no real solutions. Nothing is really made to help me and I have to be my own doctor/skin care specialist and hope my research is good enough? The most I got out of my dermatologist is that I'm doing better than most people and if it bothered me that much I could have a 3K surgery that doesn't even fix it - only the redness is reduced. So I'm constantly living in fear that my skin will some day get so thick it becomes hard but I can't use anything abrasive on my face to irritate it and I have to be hyper vigilant on what ingredients are in what products so there aren't certain chemicals in there but I don't know what chemicals are out there? And I'm buying redness reducing products hoping that the redness they're referring to is the kind I need and not just ..... normal non-rosacea symptoms. The vagueness of not over promising to keep from getting into legal trouble is making my ability to take care of myself properly very difficult. But hey. I'm doing "better than most people." Thanks?
When I met my host mom during my leap year in Los Angeles one of the first things she asked me about was how much I shower. Because I smell, and it’ll be hard to get friends if I smell. So since then I have showered daily. But when I then later moved out, after coming home from my leap year. My landlord then also said I smelled and that he would kick me out unless it improved. So now I’m slightly worried every time he comes around. So now I shower daily. At least in the periods when I either have been studying or working. In my in between time it just doesn’t go so well and it’s just sometimes or before I have to go anywhere
My very scientific observations (i ask people) tells that most of hygiene habits come from family. It's a pretty personal thing that people usually do at home so there's not that much other actors who could influence that. It's only the last years when we started to watch youtube videos and ask each other how often do we take a shower on the internet.
This video is a major WTF for me. What is even the conclusion? "Uh, it's complicated, you just do what you want to do!" And then the whole thing is sponsored by a skin care product? Wow.
So, I had skepticism bells go off with your sponsor given the topic, but from what I've learned, cleaning, moisturizing and protecting really are the only steps you actually need. If you want to fight wrinkles/get more youthful skin, then you need a retinoid. Unless you have specific conditions, generally, most people should have a 2-4 step process at most. And if you do nothing else (besides sunscreen where applicable for what you are and what conditions you are under) moisturize. Dry, oily and combination skin still benefits from it.
as someone with seriously severe atopic dermatitis to the point of needing to get a dupilumab injection every 2 weeks (it healed my skin condition + my asthma) I have never been able to use any of those supposedly "good" skin care products, the only soaps that wouldn't wreck my skin were the no perfume and no extra stuff added bar soaps you can get at a pharmacy and even then I had to avoid washing with soap too often otherwise I'd look like I was tied and dragged across the asphalt on a motorbike on the highway naked (and it would hurt as much). So my skin care routine is basic washing without overdoing it because even with the new medication, my skin would let me know if I did too much.
Our skin produces all the natural oils it needs to stay healthy and protect itself. Just like our hair. I use water to clean myself. It's counter productive to use all these detergents and it's kinda harmful to our health. For deodorant, I use a home-made formula of alum powder and lavender essential oil, that absolutely does the job. I don't need to use moisturiser, my skin is always healthy and people always act shocked when I tell them my age because I look ten years younger than most people my age. edit: I use soap on my hands when preparing food though of course. And I use sanitiser if I'm touching objects that other people touch,
I have icthyosis so I bathe and moisturize everyday anyway. HOWEVER. Once I worked next to a teen who had not bathed himself in 2 weeks. He had no idea how he smelled. I couldn't breathe. Absolutely terrifying.
This was a very fun, informative and articulated video to watch,but as a brazilian (that still lives in brazil) it is fascinating to see the cultural differences that make up our daily lives, not only because of the different colonial influences (like the portuguese and english colonizers, and the different aboriginal people in the land etc, and the cultural nuances that come with that) but also the different cultures because of the weather conditions! when i was younger i used to be confused on how people from the northern hemisphere (or any of the more extremes of the hemispheres) could shower daily, and then maybe even twice daily, turns out yall dont 😂 and this came as such a shock for me!! we here in brazil also have a lot of influence of the aboriginal groups, in several aspects of our culture of course, but even more in the bathing aspect! so this was very interesting to watch not only because of the informative way it was displayed (makes so much sense that soap operas had this name because of the sponsoring soaps! didnt know that) to the cultural aspects that were presented, even if not intentional! love the videos on this channel, thanks for sharing guys!
Good video! One part of the story I would have like to see included in this video (related to the idea of classism discussed and colorism referenced at the end) is how closely race is involved in the story of personal hygiene in the West. There is a long history of racial minority communities, especially Black, in the U.S. washing and using products far more than White folks that is directly related to efforts following the abolition of slavery to assimilate into "proper" society. This often comes to the surface still when social media posts go viral asking about hygiene routines (as we saw at the start of the video!) where a racial divide in response commonly emerges. Isn't history and sociology fun?
In recent years I've started a skin care routine and most of it happens in the shower because I have learned that I am not disciplined enough to go to the sink, put the stuff on, and wash my face outside of a shower. Felt like too much effort, plus didn't like the mess of having water splashing or dripping onto my countertop and on my shirt and having to clean that up. I use a facial scrub and a cleanser (Burt's Bees) in the shower, then once I'm out and drying up, I add a bit of (no scent) moisturizer on my face and any places I just shaved to prevent or reduce irritation. Done.
Coming from (and living in) the tropical SE Asia, I need to shower at least once a day so that I can feel CLEAN because I am sweaty as hell in this kind of weather. (I mean, "hell" is probably a good word to describe the hot weather here.) I took this cleaning ritual with me when I moved to the UK for my study even it is not as hot there.
It's also worth pointing out just how different people's skin can be. Like, I have very dry skin to begin with, and I sweat easily which tends to wash away the small amount of oils I have. So for me, things that increase my oiliness, like lotion, are good. But something that will break down my skin oils, like soap and acne wipes, tends to cause me problems. On the other hand, people with oily skin would want to do the exact opposite, because if they don't remove their skin oils they'll get the pimples from hell.
I don’t really get skincare routines as a guy - who just wanted to comment on this, I don’t have a skincare routine and i shower every other day but skip shower day when i wash my hair and my girlfriend has a skincare routine and she’s been doing it for years and after one of her skincare routine my skin was smooth as her, i eat junk and i dont work out but my work is my work out since it includes a lot physical activity which makes me to believe that most of the skincare products is mostly bs
Did Sabrina really just "Simba" herself 🤣 I'm actually really glad that the answer is basically "Do what you want." I've never had a "skincare routine" and I felt weird about that. My mom also shames me for it. But I was never motivated to change that fact for a variety of reasons. So in the end, as long as I'm clean, I'm fine. Good to know.
I just wanna find out how to recreate this one bar soap that I got that was really good but I dont think it had packaging? Like I think it was part of some kind of spa set or something. Anyway I used it up and I'm like. Damn how to get that again. It lathered up well and didn't leave and residue feeling, and it was also really good on my sensitive skin. I'll figure out a good replacement eventually lol. I'm using other bar soaps that are good enough too. Watching ppl make ones from scratch is pretty cool. That part of that whole oddly satisfying genre.
That realization that our cleansing routines or norms come from social bases is particularly interesting... because it very much goes against our evolutionary biology. We have body hair specifically to trap and spread odors - the exact odors that our cleansing routines seek to eliminate. I was a bit surprised, though, that you never mentioned some of the basics about what soap DOES... soap includes molecules with hydrophobic and olegophilic ends, one end grabs onto oily things and moves away from water... this grabs onto oily substances on the skin like sebum and lets them be washed away. Additionally soaps includes substances which actively lyse bacteria - breaking their cell walls and destroying them. That's just normal soap, without the antibacterial additions which were always primarily a marketing thing (which nevertheless played a role in promoting bacteria which were resistant to certain classes of antibiotic drugs). Scrubbing with water alone leaves lots of oily substances behind that even resist friction removal, so soap does have purpose. I loved the video.. was a bit surprised you didn't find someone who had a more minimal skincare routine, like someone who showers then doesn't do anything else extra, no moisturizing, no lotions, no perfumes, etc.
My choice of soap is literally just because I like the smell of roses. xD There's definitely a case to be made about everyone's skin being different though, and thus needing different care. 'S important to have a variety of options for a variety of peoples.
Be considerate about the artificial smells you put on as well. Often some people pass me with so many solvent fumes from the cheap perfume they put on, its way worse the BO. At least I dont get cancer from BO.
As an art conservator (aka a professional cleaner) it's amazing how much science goes into the right sort of cleaner for the right sort of substance. Like, entire conferences are built around it.
I remember a moment in class when the room suddenly became split between people who scrub in the shower and people who just stand under the water. It was a crazy moment to realise how subjective 'normal' and 'clean' actually are.
Similar to when you find out how people behave differently on the toilet. How much toilet paper, do you fold it or not, sit-down-wiping or stand-up-wiping... and it's a routine you do so often that it's hard to even imagine other people doing it differently xD
Well, few years back, due to a skin problem a dermatologist told me to stop using soap, and to stop showering. He gave me more instruction on how to wash myself, and what products, other than soap, I can use. I can still shower, but less often like once or twice a week, but must avoid "normal" soap. I still struggle to apply those advices, but I have to recognized that most of my skin problem has disappeared, except one my hands, cause I'm still using water and soap, multiple times a day.
@@katethegoat7507 I have had a similar routine suggested to me as the op. If they have what I have then moisturizer after washing is still not enough. I literally wash with sorbolene lotion /aqueous cream (I've tried dozens of the special "soap-free" alternatives over the years, they always leave my skin too dry), followed by a heavy application of a super moisturising cream within 5 minutes after showering, with additional moisturising reinforcement of petroleum jelly/vaseline on key places on my body to lock it in, and my hands still are rough as can be.
TL:DR Hot water + soap seemed to leave my skin hurting, where as warm water and no soap seems to leave it feeling great. I used to get a lot of skin itch and dandruff. I stopped using shampoo and the dandruff went away, eventually the oily hair feeling from not using shampoo went away and it now feels dry and healthy all the time, with no dandruff. So as an experiment I reduced the soap to just pits/groin/feet, then reduced frequency of washing. Skin itch went away, foot odour vastly reduced. The skin naturally seemed to balance over time and just feels better. Now I do a sniff check every so often on the pits and groin and if there is a discernible odour I grab a lukewarm cloth and clean them. Regular showering now feels unnecessary and wasteful now and I can easily go months in-between showers without noticing any negative effects. I will routinely ask people I trust if they can detect any odour and so far nobody has ever been able too, where as when I showered regularly I definitely found that I stank if I skipped out on showering for a day, especially pits and feet.
WTF, if I don't shower for a day I noticeably smell bad. Where do you live? Here in North of Brazil it's regularly 28º-35ºC so I don't see how this is generally applicable
I mean, there are a few skins diseases where the treatment literally is "don't shower" and nothing else because medicine isn't that good yet, and I suppose you might enter that category ? But it did disappear in your case, so is it eczema ?
I love the irony of how skincare research is often funded by those trying to sell something... while the sponsor of this video is a skincare brand😆. I see what you did there...
One other reason i want to say there is a huge variation in skincare is that everyone's skin is different and needs different things to be healthy. Like a person who has especially oily skin will need a different skincare routine than someone who's skin is very dry.
@@oliviaspring9690 Theres a moisturizer that uses hemp, and IDK if its consistency is too thick preventing my forehead from sweating or if it has something to do with the hemp, but I’ve found out that using that moisturizer on my forehead causes terrible migraines. At first I thought I was lacking electrolytes because a gatorade would help stop the migraine, but later realized that when I used my expensive and thinner moisturizer that the migraines stopped and I haven’t received them anymore for the last year.
I've reinvented my hygiene routine recently bc I realized it was made when I was a teenager, aka at my stinkiest. I don't need nearly as many or as harsh products to stay hygienic now
i'd love to see one of these on haircare too! there's a very similar market and confusion around how to care for your hair. I still haven't figured out how to make my hair less frizzy, and i've tried so many things, lol
@@princessjellofish honestly, you're right, i just feel like it negatively impacts peoples' image of me and that people think im lazy because my hair is always so frizzy, even though i try very, very hard to make it stop being so frizzy.
Usually some kind of moisturizing can help with frizzy hair. There's also the chance that maybe you're overwashing your hair thereby constantly stripping it of its natural protective oils? I dunno.
I usually have my captions on and I'm pretty sure the captions are from a different part of the video's transcript, and according to the comments I'm not the only one who noticed this. Otherwise, thanks for always having (usually accurate) captions in these videos, it's really helpful and appreciated!
I'm a fellow doctor and I make my smell confusing on purpose. Mint tea leave conditioner, bourbon scented bodywash, and antiperspirant that is apparently the smell of a giant kraken. Aside from that, high grade sports-level sunscreen. Protect that skin. It's the only set you've got.
@@MegaLokopoHave you seen those sleeping box prices ? The fart tunnels alone take up 80% of the price ... Septic problems often happen . Why do we need to own a roll machine box to visit the income generators ?
@@Mikewee777 As a condition for hiring me, my boss is required to drive me to and from work every day, owning a car is optional regardless of what city you live in.
I also play that smell roulette. It's genuinely fun. Thankfully, I also have someone who compliments my smell every time we snuggle so I'm validated in my confusing choices.
I'm so glad someone else is just as weirdly passionate as i am that antibiotic soap is stupid. Soap by definition is an antibacterial substance because as a surfactant it shreds cell walls and "pops" bacteria. Antibacterial soap is like buying antibacterial bleach, bleach is also inherently antimicrobial as it chemically cooks them by denaturing their proteins. (This is also how it hurts us, but we need higher concentrations/doses than microbes so we use bleach to chlorinate our water.) I'm not sure if you have done a video on it yet but as a topic suggestion the history of water treatment could be interesting. I went down the rabbit hole when I wondered what was in the "liquid chlorine" my family uses to treat our pool, it can't be pure chlorine gas dissolved in water to the point it turns yellow because if it was it should all bubble out like a soda and kill you when you pour it in, therefore it must be some type of salt. Mystery solved by reading the label, googling "sodium hypochlorate" and learning its litterally just bleach. Then doing the same for the tablets and having a much longer name for what is basically 3 of the above stuck in a ring that is the solid form of bleach.
There's a great selection of pieces of media on the history of toilets/how people "went" through time. Not the same as water treatment, but dealing with wastewater came before water treatment by a mile
I kind of hoped for that chemistry/biological deep dive in soap. I'm not sure where I heard this but carex for example found a great way to sell soap was to advertise that soap kills 99.9% bacteria which I think other soaps also do. So effectively marketing the basics that their competitors don't think to do. Separate rabbit hole there are "soap free" ways of washing. I wonder if that does the hygiene things
Yeah, I remember many years ago, I looked at Bill Nye (the Science Guy)'s website and he had a blog post about how antibacterial soap is generally unnecessary and is contributing to creating superbugs. I've never bought antibacterial soap since.
Stinky Fact: Dermatologists recommend you only shower a few times a week. Of course this gets more nuanced with the kind of activity you do on the daily and what your environment is like. But the basic gist of what they found out was that your skin has a micro ecology of its own, and your body produces specific oils, enzymes, hormones, etc. Constantly washing it (like washing it every day) messes up this ecology, stripping it of it's vital oils to keep the skin hydrated and deodorized (your body does produce it's own version of deodorant and constantly deodorizing will make your body stop producing it on its own)
Tragically this also only works when you don’t have the “sweat profusely at all times even while cold” gene. But yeah! So many people don’t need to shower every day. Same goes for washing your hair!
see, i knew i wasnt crazy. i shower every 3 days, using my hair as an indicator of when the dirt has built up and needs to be washed. i only use soap when im especially stinky. if im not smelly, i just scrub my normally sweaty areas with water, and i literally never touch my legs. i definitely should be doing a skin care routine nightly, its what works best for the skin on my face, but i just dont have enough motivation
And also, if one isn't in a hot and humid climate and doing physically intensive work, 2-3 times seem good enough. If you still feel the need to shower, skip soap every other time or according to your mileage. Or just use it on the funky bits. Although funky isn't bad and it okay for people to smell like people and not a bouquet of flowers. Infact, the apocrine glands that are found in places like the armpit, groin and scalp produce sweat and pheromones which is what attracts potential mates. Sadly, the fat in this kind of sweat is eaten by bacteria which gives rise to the funky smell that people have a problem with. Although it's mostly an American thing, which has been spreading across the globe due to their media influence.
The little thing on the top of the moisturizer is a little spatula to scoop out the product instead of using your finger because your finger can introduce bacteria into the product
I have a question about the spatula thing, do you put the product on the spatula directly to the skin. Then you do what? I am guessing it gets cleaned and put back on its spot for future use, but how is that different from freshly washed hands? Is it because there's less chance of contact with contaminants so its cleaner that recently clean fingers? I tend to avoid the conundrum all together by using pump containers so the product doesn't come in contact with any surface (be it hands or tool) except what is pumped out, hell maybe you don't know the answer but if you do I would like to know so I can ease my contamination anxieties.
@@ghastdroid I get what you mean :D in that case I would use the spatula and put the product on without the spatula touching my skin, trying to divide the product in a way that it is "product on skin - still some product on spatula", so it did not have contact to skin :) like I try with toothpaste on my brush. Then you could rub the rest off in a clean paper towel and store the spatula for reuse. That is how I manage the contamination anxiety, no evidence if it makes sense scientifically tho haha
So, i am a no one, but if you ever want a weird indepth conversation about skincare and the huge problems from someone who works in the industry with a degree, I have one. I have a lot of opinions (like the loss "testing" for cosmetics.) I would love too. Because i would love to, but the basic is this: cosmetics is mostly marketing and also a lack of understanding from even those who sell it expect from what the brands tell those selling it.
Good work, EXCEPT jojoba is a Spanish word so the "j" is pronounced like an "h" just like in javelina. I only mention it because I grew up in Arizona where you would occasionally spot a javelina and her little piglets hiding behind a jojoba bush.
I just wash my skin with water, anything that sweats a lot gets some regular, unscented bar soap, anything that has touched or stepped in anything awful gets more soap.
@@CationnaSkin oils aren't necessarily a negative thing. You wash your face only to then apply moisturizer, moisturizer which has oil in it. That's what moisturizer is. It seals in moisture. The problem is bacteria specifically.
@@Cationna In nearly a decade of not using soap anywhere besides sweaty skin folds (between the legs, armpits and between the toes) and my genitals, I never got skin infections. Our skin is always covered with a protective layer of beneficial bacteria that are constantly keeping harmful ones at bay. Mind you, harmful bacteria ALSO live on the skin and inside us, but they cannot do any harm because they are competing against other creatures, incluidng our own immune system. I do not recommend this if your immune system is suppressed, however... But if you are healthy, soap is pretty much unnecessary. Addendum: idk why we have products with probiotics (living, beneficial bacteria) for our guts, but not our skin, when both ONLY WORK properly because we co-evolved with them.
@@tsrenis Bacteria is everywhere. Why would I have to wash every centimeters of my body to get rid off it? Like are you people cats licking your body because I don't otherwise know how the bacteria would end up inside you.
