We have to brush our teeth twice a day or they rot, shower or we smell like shit, wash our face or we get blackheads etc.
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It’s true what a lot of other people are saying, about how animals *would* have the same problems if they lived the same lives we did (and they *do* smell). But I’m also gonna throw out there that our bodies adjust to the amount of cleaning we do, in terms of the amount of oil, etc. we produce. The more you wash your hair, for example, the more oil your scalp produces because it’s constantly being stripped. Same with your face. Humans wash regularly because we are intelligent social creatures who exist in a culture that demonizes body odor and poor hygiene, not because our bodies naturally overproduce oil like that. They don’t.
400 years ago, people didn’t take baths more than once a week (probably month). And there are plenty of countries around the world that don’t have the infrastructure we do (such as running water) that also only bathe occasionally. Admittedly, they also probably have more rampant disease in those parts of the world, but there’s also more rampant disease in wild animals, going back to the original point that animals do have the same problems from not washing themselves as hygienically as we do.
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