How often do you actually need to shower?
NO SUCH THING
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4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
For this episode, we make our way back into the bathroom as we go deep on showering. How often should you actually shower? What’s the proper way to do it? Do you actually need to wash your legs every time? How long should your shower last? Should you be using a loofah — or are they actually bad for you?
Our guests this week are Katherine Ashenberg, author of The Dirty on Clean: An Unsanitized History and board-certified dermatologist Dr. Lisa Akintilo.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Devin. We are working on an advice episode and who more qualified to answer your questions than Mani Noah and me, Devin. So if you have an argument you're trying to settle with a spouse, you've got to debate you're trying to settle with a friend, email us at mani and Noah Devon at gmail.com or you can give us a call at the number in our show notes. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm mani. I'm Noah. |
| 0:25.8 | This is Devin. And this is no such thing. The show will resettle our dumb arguments and yours by |
| 0:31.0 | actually doing the research. On today's episode, how often should you wash your legs? |
| 0:38.9 | There's no such thing. |
| 0:40.8 | No such thing. |
| 0:43.8 | No such thing. |
| 0:46.8 | No such thing. |
| 0:47.7 | No such thing. |
| 0:49.6 | No such thing. |
| 1:02.4 | So I think a good place to start this conversation was one of our first conversations we had about showering. |
| 1:04.9 | First conversations about shower. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:05.6 | I remember it's pretty, you know, it's a core memory. |
| 1:09.9 | Paint a picture for us. |
| 1:11.4 | We're all sitting in the old business inside our offices. |
| 1:16.6 | And one of our friends, I'll say to her name, but we'll blip it out. |
| 1:20.4 | Okay. |
| 1:23.0 | Was talking about how her dad is so crazy. |
| 1:28.9 | And you want to know the crazy thing that her dad does. |
| 1:32.8 | Remind me. |
| 1:33.8 | What could it be? |
| 1:35.1 | I'm really struggling to remember this moment. |
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