A germ expert and a dermatologist explain how to figure out the answer to: Should I shower?
Here’s the difference between being dirty and being smelly.
Basically, the two are not mutually exclusive.
Germ expert and microbiologistJason Tetrosays that you might be smelly without being dirty and vice versa.
When we talk about smelly, were dealing with the formation of odor-causing chemicals, he says.
That means in theory that you are clean but you still produce a smell, he says.
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Often, this is due to stress sweat (which is a very real thing).
This doesnt specifically relate to being clean or dirty, often just simply being active.
Theres really no difference in the way that you clean yourself.
Or, ya know, if youre quarantined alone, let that dirt and smellbe free.
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