I Quit Showering, and Life Continued
We spend two full years of our lives washing ourselves. How much of that time (and money and water) is a waste?
by James Hamblin
Jun 09, 2016
3 minutes
12,167 hours of washing our bodies.
That’s how much life you use, if you spend 20 minutes per day washing and moisturizing your skin and hair (and you live to be 100, as we all surely will).
That adds up to nearly two entire years of washing every waking hour.
Not to mention water usage and the cost of cosmetic products—which we , because commercials tell us to remove the oil from our skin with soap, and then to moisturize with
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