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It's estimated that two-thirds of Americans shower daily. If you're among them, it may be you're lathering up too often. Excessive exposure to soap and water, especially very warm or hot water, can throw off the acid mantle—the thin layer of fatty acids and sebum oil that helps protect skin from outside contaminants and prevents it from becoming dry, flaky, and itchy. This can be particularly problematic for people with skin conditions such as psoriasis or eczema. What's more, too-frequent showering can disrupt the skin's microbiome—colonies of beneficial organisms such as bacteria and fungi that play a role in the immune system by helping to ward off infectious microbes. For many people, a full-body shower every other day or even every third day is likely to be sufficient.

Sure, washing your face in the shower saves time but it can also do more harm than good — like, clogging pores with other products gross or drying out skin with hot water ouch. Want to know why? Um, no thank you. Right now St.

Subscriber Account active since. Contact wearers, you may want to take this sitting down and with your glasses on : A year-old woman in the UK became legally blind after a severe infection left her with permanent scars on her cornea, the clear top lens of the eyeball. Researchers found that the woman had worn her contacts while showering and swimming, allowing microscopic critters called amoebas to get inside her eyeball and grow there, causing intense pain, blurry vision, and irreversible damage, according to a report published July 18 in The New England Journal of Medicine. This isn't the first time that's happened.

A pregnant teacher who was extremely careful to avoid COVID has died after friends organised a surprise baby shower, not realising one of them was infected. The woman Camila Graciano, 31, was eight months pregnant when she caught the virus in the city of Anapolis, in the central Brazilian state of Goias, after contact with one of the people at the surprise party friends had organised for her. Despite her precautions, the widespread nature of the novel coronavirus in Brazil meant she was ultimately unable to avoid contracting the virus. Her family said that knowing her pregnancy was at risk, Ms Graciano had taken great care not to leave her home during the pandemic.