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posted by takyon on Sunday November 08 2015, @07:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the p-u dept.

It's a staple of the modern morning routine: Wake up, hop in the shower, lather with soap.

But is that morning scrub-a-dub really necessary?

One man claims not. David Whitlock, a chemical engineer in Boston, has not showered for 12 years.

Whitlock isn't running an experiment in extreme water conservation. Rather, he believes that humans don't need to shower to be healthy, and that a daily soap scrub may actually remove a beneficial type of bacteria that keeps the bacteria that contribute to B.O. in check.

To boost the presence of odor-eating bacteria, Whitlock has designed a bacterial spray called AO+ Mist, which is now sold by the company AoBiome under the brand Mother Dirt. The company hopes this bacterial spritz could reduce the need for products such as soaps and deodorants and potentially even reduce or eliminate the need for showering for those so inclined.

His theory is that your skin will control odor-producing bacteria if left to its own devices, and that soap kills off good bacteria your skin needs.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 08 2015, @11:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 08 2015, @11:40PM (#260567)

    Can you try eating a bulb of garlic, then report back the sauna results? Even submit it as a story. I'm interested in how strong the odor would be.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday November 09 2015, @12:59PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Monday November 09 2015, @12:59PM (#260740) Homepage
    I definitely sweat garlic if I've had a lot of it. Never had a whole bulb, but a bowl of meaty soup can happily accept about 2 or 3 cloves per person, and I always like to throw most of it on last, so it's only cooked for a couple of minutes. So I'll be humming of garlic in the sauna. However, I won't smell it, as I'll have been humming of garlic for hours and will have become desensitised.

    Other foodstuffs which seem to prefer being secreted rather than excreted include curry spices, hops, and salmiakki (you don't want to know how much I used to eat, I was actually addicted to the stuff).
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