how come drinking cold water feels refreshing, but cold water on your skin is shocking like a cold shower?
In: Biology
It’s because, as a first worlder, you are used to bathing in hot water. Plenty of people on the rest of the world bathe in cold water daily and it doesn’t feel shocking to them. And not just people in hot climates; the Inca bathed daily in cold water and they lived in high altitude mountains.
If you do it every day, you get used to it.
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