''We can over shower and over bathe and it might not be the best for our skin.''
Showering every other day might be better for our skin, according to a microbiologist.
A new survey from soap company Jonathon Myers found that people working from home have been avoiding the shower and shaving during lockdown.
However, Dr Orla Cahill who is a Microbiologist in TU Dublin told Newstalk Breakfast it may not be the worst thing to cut down on bathing.
“A lot of people are working from home,” she said. “They are not travelling on public transport; they are not running and racing in the morning trying to get out and get into the office and they are taking the pace a little bit slower.
“They are maybe not showering until later in the day until after they have exercised or not at all maybe.
“Obviously that is a personal choice but from a microbiological and a dermatological perspective, it might not be all that bad not to shower every single day.”
''We can over shower and over bathe and it might not be the best for our skin microbiome'', she added.
''Our skin has a plethora of microbes that can potentially boost and protect us''.
In short she said it's “perfectly OK” to shower every other day.
