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No Bathing: Why did Hollywood suddenly decide not to take a bath?

To do bathroom or to remain unwashed until our very body asks for a shower? This is the intense debate that has erupted in Hollywood (and consequently in world of the internet) with more and more actors and people of art and culture agreeing with his practice “No bathing”, ie voluntary abstinence from the shower.

The truth, however, remains: Some stars have taken a shower, either for health reasons or out of love for the environment.

It all started when Aston Kutcher and Mila Kounis revealed that they do not wash their children often, while they themselves refrain from frequent bathing.

“If you can see the dirt on them, clean them. “Otherwise it makes no sense,” Kutcher said of their children. after training to remove the salts “. Kounis, however, commented that she washes her face twice a day.

Despite the initial reactions, many are those who defended the couple, such as actress Kristen Bell and her husband, Dax Shepard, even mentioning that they often “forget” to bathe their two daughters.

“I’m a big fan of waiting for dirt to appear,” Bell said, adding: “This is the way biology tells you you need to clean it up. Honestly, they are just bacteria. Once bacteria have developed, you need to take a bath or shower. So I do not hate what Kounis and Kutcher do. “

Shepard, for his part, insisted that “you should not remove all natural skin oils with soap every day, but wash only with water.”

But also the Brad Pitt has previously stated his bad relationship with the bathroom and cleanliness. For him, the reason he could not bathe regularly was because he was the father of six young children and did not have time.

For his part, o Eli Roth – Pete co-star in “Inglorious Basterds” – revealed in an interview that Brad was the one who advised him that baby wipes were the way to not look like you were not taking a shower. “I have six children. All you have to do is wipe with a few wipes under your armpits. “I do not have time to take a shower,” Roth admitted.

While the Jennifer Aniston and Julia Roberts recently said in an interview that they shower once a week “To save water for our planet”.

“I do not consider the bathroom necessary”

And Jake Gyllenhaal, however, he does not seem to like water very much and avoids bathing as much as possible. “More and more I think bathing is less necessary, sometimes,” he told Vanity Fair.

“I believe, because Elvis Costello is wonderful, that good manners and bad breath lead you nowhere. So I do it. “But I also believe that there is a whole world that does not bathe and that is also very good for maintaining the skin and cleansing themselves naturally.”

The actor also states that he is “confused that sponges come from nature” because he “feels that they are made in a factory, and in fact it is not true”.

The trend, however, is real. So much so that, as the German DW notes, the last one was released in Germany book by James Hublin, an American physician and author, who experimented with No Bathing himself. “But of course washing, it is good for the skin.”

“It is important to wash our hands thoroughly so that we can touch our eyes and nose. And we must do so even when we are not in a pandemic. But soap use should only be done on certain areas, such as the legs and armpits. “However, in commercials and movies we often see people using soap all over their bodies, as if it were a car in a car wash,” says Hublin.

“Whoever spends more time than necessary under the shower, consumes more water than necessary, buys products whose ingredients go around the earth before being put in a plastic bottle. “Anyone who does not shower every day, at first smells strong and thinks that solves the problem with more washing.”

THE dermatologist Marion Mers Carpi from Munich He believes, like Hublin, that daily rubbing removes the fat secreted by the glands to protect the skin. This dries the skin and forces it to use lubricating creams to create an artificial layer of fat. She says she washes twice a week and uses only soap. And finally it reminds me of something from the past. “Ask your grandparents how often they washed. Formerly only one time in the bathtub. And they did not stink. “

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