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Washing your body everyday is almost mandatory if you want to keep yourself away from different internal and external diseases, but many of us don’t know how we should wash our body properly. If we don’t wash our body in a proper way, then it is likely that we will not be able to keep ourselves safe from different germs. And we can’t avoid germs if we go out for work, even if we stay at home all day long.
It is well known that keeping yourself in contact with different germs will cause so many skin complexities, and if such complexities arise, then you’ll not be able to cure those properly with medication if you don’t clean your body everyday properly. And being in contact with germs will not only cause external skin complexity but may cause internal complexity too.
For all these things, you should wash your body properly by showering every day, and it’s applicable for winter seasons too. Today I am going to show you how to wash your body properly without spending lots of time.
Why is it important to wash your body, everyday?
When we go out, we come in contact with dirty air and so many germs which we can’t avoid while doing our day-to-day work. And, if we don’t clean these germs, then they will stick with our skin resulting in causing allergies, skin irritation, and so many other complexities. So, If you don’t wash your body properly everyday, then simply it will result in unhealthy skin. And you know you’ll have almost nothing to do with using beauty products if you have unhealthy skin. If you clean your body properly every day, then you’ll get some mental benefits as well.
Suppose you’ll get mental clarity, and you’ll face reduced hormonal imbalance that has some great benefits in terms of your body functions. Another thing is that properly washing the full body can reduce fatigue, and thus you may increase your working capability by bathing every day. Even properly bathing everyday has so many health benefits too, and all these things are medically proven. This is why you should wash your body everyday. But you may take an interval of one or two days if you have any health complications like fever or something like that. But in no case, you should take a long interval because it will simply be harmful to your health.
How to wash your body properly?
If you search for what is the most natural way to wash your body, you’ll see the way to wash naturally doesn’t contain any special procedure. People simply go to any water source and pour water on their bodies, or they go to a pond or canal and accomplish their bath. But if you want to get a better result from everyday bathing, then you should consider so many things. Now I am going to show you how to wash your body properly to get the maximum benefit from such washing.
- Make yourself prepared and arrange necessary things
- Start washing your body at the right time
- Clean your hair and scalp
- Clean your other body parts
- Clean your face while washing your body
- Especially take care of hard to reach areas
- Clean the things you have used in washing your body
- Last part of washing your body in the shower
1. Make yourself prepared and arrange necessary things
Before anything else, you should prepare yourself for bathing, and you have to make your body warm for that. For that reason, you should run or walk for a while before taking a bath. It’s not a mandatory part of bathing, but if you do this, then you’ll get so many health benefits.
Now, arrange all the necessary things for your bathing- like water, soap, towel, or other necessary things that you will use in the shower. Keep in mind the water should not be too cold or too hot. You should keep your shower water at the temperature that you’re comfortable with. If you have a fever, then you may bathe in lukewarm water, but you should not do it everyday. And the towel with which you’ll wipe your body after the bath should not be so harsh. The reason is that harsh towels can cause so many skin complexities.
2. Start washing your body at the right time
There is no mandatory time for bathing, but you should do it in the morning or before the afternoon. Because washing the full body in the afternoon regularly might cause some harmful effects on our health. If you have arranged all the necessary things, then you may start bathing. When you’re bathing, you should not keep many clothes on your body. You may do your bath without cloth or keep a very small portion of cloth on your body. The first step that you will do in the bath is to pour water on your head. Just pouring water once on your head is enough to make your full body wet. Then after making your full body wet, you should cleanse your different body parts.
3. Clean your hair and scalp
If you wash your full body regularly, then cleaning your hair and scalp once a week is enough. Actually, it depends on your way of life and how germ-containing the surrounding air is. If you live in a place where the air is so dirty, then you should clean your hair and scalp more than once a week. Now come to the point- at which you’ll wash your hair and scalp. Shampoo is considered the best option all around the world, so you may try that. Just keep some drops of shampoo on your palm and rub it all over your hair and scalp. There are shampoos serving different purposes like treating dull hair, dandruff, less hair density, or something like that. So, you should choose the shampoo according to what you need now, as cleaning power is inherent in almost all shampoos.
But if you need to soften your hair strands, then conditioner might be the best option for you. Even some conditioners can help improve scalp health, so choose the right one according to what you desire. But whatever you use on your hair- shampoo or conditioner, you should wash properly. If you can’t wash properly, then whatever you use on your hair will cause some further complexities. So, when you apply shampoo or conditioner on your hair, you should pour water many times after that.
4. Clean your other body parts
Now I am going to share- what should you use to wash your body? The ultimate objective of body washing is to clean our body or remove germs from there. So you should take care of your every body part by cleaning germs or dirt, which may be seen or unseen. Usually, we use soap or other cleansers to clean our different body parts.
Some people use washcloths. You may do so, but keep in mind that cleaning with a washcloth is not as easy as cleaning with soap. The best way to clean your different body parts with soap is to massage the skin with soap and then rinse it off. But remember, you should not massage again and again with soap in the same place. Or if you use any washcloth for rubbing on your skin for cleaning, then you should not rub so hard, and you should not rub again and again. Because over-exfoliation is harmful to every type of skin.
With soap, cleaning different parts of your body might be easier for you, but you should choose the right soap. It actually depends on your skin condition. If your skin is okay, if there’s no complexity, then you may use any soap. That’s not a problem. But if you have any skin complexities like acne, pimples, or complexes like that, then you should choose the soap which can treat those conditions. Usually, bathing with soap everyday is harmful. You should bathe with soap just twice or thrice a week. This is what should you use to wash your body in shower every day.
5. Clean your face while washing your body
Don’t skip cleaning your face while washing your body, and you should use face wash for that. Commonly people use face wash in the morning, at night, or whenever they need it, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use face wash while washing your body. Our facial skin is not like the skin of our other body parts, so you should not use ordinary soap on your face skin. You should use face wash on your face skin while washing your body. You may use face wash on your face skin after cleaning your hair properly or at last (when you’re about to end bathing).
There’s a wrong conception around the world that face wash is only for females, but it’s not true at all. Like females, using ordinary soap on the face skin of males is also harmful. There are so many face washes for males, so you may choose one from them if you’re male. Another thing is that you should choose the face wash based on your skin condition. If you don’t have any complexity in your face skin, then it’s not so important for you. But if you have complexities like acne, pimples, blackheads, dry skin, or something like that, then you have to choose the face wash which can treat such skin complexities.
6. Especially take care of hard to reach areas
There are some places in our body that we can’t clean easily, even when we wash our full body. Suppose the area between two fingers, the skin around our nails, or the backside of our knee may fall under this category. But you should clean all these places to keep yourself safe. Keep in mind if you have germs anywhere in your body that may cause harmful effects on the other parts too. And just pouring water on these places cannot clean those places properly.
For that reason, you should especially take care of these places by cleaning them properly. Scrubbing sponges, washcloths, or something like that might be the solution to these problems. But remember one thing: don’t scrub unnecessarily; otherwise, it will be harmful to you. Using any of these things, you should clean properly all the hard to reach areas of your body. And, if you think that you need to use soap more than two times a week to keep these hard-to-reach areas clean, then you may do so.
7. Clean the things you have used in washing your body
If you use a scrubbing sponge, washcloths, or things like that for cleaning your body’s skin, then you have to clean all these things properly after using them. It goes without saying when you use these things for cleaning dirt from your body. Then these things will contain germs from your body. And, if you don’t clean these things after using them and use them without cleaning them the next day, those germs will affect your body’s skin. The best way is to clean those things with soap made for cleaning clothes. The reason is that soap for cleaning cloths contains much cleaning power compared to soap made for our body skin. So, after cleaning your body’s skin, especially your hard to reach areas, with scrubbing sponges or washcloths, clean those things with any soap made for cleaning cloths.
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8. Last part of washing your body in the shower
If you have done all the things I mentioned above, then you’re about to end your shower. But, at this stage, you have to be sure that there’s no remaining soap, shampoo, or other cleaning agents that you used in your shower anywhere in your body. If you pour water on your body four to five times, then it is likely that you’ll be able to clean your body properly. Now you need to wipe your full body with a clean towel, and that towel should not be so harsh.
Soft towel is good for our body skin, so try to use such a towel. After wiping your full body with a towel, clean the towel with water. This is how to properly wash your body in the shower, and keep in mind you should not take more than fifteen minutes in the shower. This is how to properly wash your body properly.
How to properly wash your body: real life story
Several years ago, I practiced cricket, and for that reason, I had to stay under direct sun for a long time, which caused excessive sweat. I bathed every day, but day by day, I felt that my skin was becoming oily. At first, I didn’t bother about it because I thought that it was nothing serious and probably was caused due to the excessive heat in the summer season. But at one stage, I couldn’t stay anywhere for long as I felt sweaty. Finding no other alternative, I went to a dermatologist, and he told me that I should bathe everyday, which I did then. Another thing he suggested was that I should not stay long hours under direct sunlight, but I couldn’t avoid this thing as I practiced cricket.
Then I shared it with one of my friends who was a health blogger, and he had so much interest in skin health. After hearing all these things from me, he told me that I should know first how to wash my body properly. Hearing this thing from him, I thought at first he was kidding, but actually, he was serious. When he told me all the necessary steps for washing my body properly, then I understood that I had been doing wrong for a long time. Actually, I bathed everyday, but I didn’t bathe properly, and I didn’t take care of my hard to reach areas, and I didn’t use any cleanser then, too, for cleaning my body parts. And my friend recommended using a scrubbing sponge to clean my whole body. According to his recommendation, I started bathing the next day. And on the first day, when I bathed in the way my friend told me, I experienced a feeling of tranquility after a bath.
My bathing steps included pouring water first on my head to make my full body wet. And then, I used a scrubbing sponge all over my body. Actually, I rubbed the sponge gently all over my body. And then I poured water all over my body, and then I used soap. And then, I poured water several times all over my body. Actually, I maintained all these steps carefully, and after bathing for almost a week in this way, I have been able to improve my skin condition. Then I understood what was wrong- I didn’t use anything for cleaning my body, just I poured water. For this reason, I couldn’t remove oil or other germs on my skin. But when I started using a scrubbing sponge, then all the germs disappeared due to gentle rubbing. Still, I bathed in that way, and from then on, I didn’t face any skin complexity.
Kenneth Guthrie
FAQs
1. How often should I bathe to get a healthy skin?
You should take a bath every day to maintain your skin health properly. There may be intervals if you need that, but long intervals are harmful to your skin health, so keep this in mind.
2. What is the right time to wash my full body?
Actually, there is no hard and first rule that you have to mandatorily bathe everyday at a certain time but morning and before none is recommended. And you should not bathe at night because it may cause fever.
3. How should I clean my full body in the shower?
There are so many ways of cleaning, but the easiest way is to use soap. If you have excessive sweat or if you have oily skin, then you may use scrubbing sponge washcloths or something like that.
4. What is the right way to use a scrubbing sponge or washcloth?
You have to rub your skin with these things when your skin is wet. But keep in mind you should not do it harshly, just rubbing gently will be enough to remove germs and dirty things from your skin.
5. What’s the recommended time frame of bathing?
Usually, you should take 10 to 15 minutes for an everyday bath, and it should not be more than 15 minutes. But on the day you use soap, shampoo, or things like that, you may bathe for a long time.
6. What type of cleaning agents should I avoid in the shower?
This issue is dependent on your skin condition. If you don’t have any skin complexity, then you may choose any cleaning agent you like. But you should not use anything, the ingredients which are not well known to you or which contain any suspicious ingredients.
7. Can I mix anything in my bath water for the betterment of my skin?
Commonly, people bathe with fresh water, and that’s enough to clean their bodies. And you may mix natural things like milk, rose water, or something like that with your bath water, and obviously, you will get some benefits from those things.
8. Which body part should I clean first in my shower?
You should start cleaning from your head like you should use shampoo or condition at first (though you will not use such things everyday).
9. Is wiping my full body after a bath mandatory?
It is, of course, mandatory because if you keep your full body wet, then it will have some health risks. But you should not use any rough towel for wiping your body, so try to use something soft.
10. Does everyday bathing have any impact on my skin look?
Obviously, if you can maintain your skin health properly through everyday bathing, then it will play an important role in your overall skin look.
Final thoughts
Our skin look is so important to all of us, and to keep our skin properly and beautiful, we should keep ourselves away from germs. And to keep us, there is no alternative to washing our full body every day. You will surely get so many advantages if you wash your full body in the recommended way, and if you do that, then it will be easier for you to ensure a smart look for your skin.
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