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“I Can Smell These In Someone From Several Feet Away”: 30 Hygiene Habits Everybody Should Follow
While most of us learn pretty early that bad breath and BO is a recipe for zero social inclusion, that doesn’t mean that some showers and daily teeth cleaning is the be-all, end-all of health and hygiene. At the end of the day, our bodies need a lot of maintenance which most of us overlook, one way or another.
Someone asked “What’s a hygiene habit that people don't talk about but really should?” and people detailed all the things more folks need to start doing. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and share your own examples in the comments section below.
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#1
If you’re wearing protective/sterile gloves, they don’t continue to be sterile once you’ve touched something gross. The amount of times I’ve seen coworkers handle human specimens with their gloves on, and then touch their face, phone, or hair really shocks me. Same note of people handling raw chicken/meat with gloves and then proceeding to touch every surface imaginable with the gloves on drives me nuts.
Roxy222uk 1 week ago
OMG, this, so much. I trained care workers for several years and worked hard to make sure they understood "put the gloves on **just before** you do the task you need the gloves for, and take them off **as soon as possible after** the task you put the gloves on for". Even when I was brand new, and shadowing more experienced care workers, I knew it was completely wrong to turn up at a client's house already putting the gloves on, keep them on for the entire visit, and then take them off as we were leaving.
LillieMean 1 week ago
I was working in a canteen and I remember how important it was to remove the gloves properly when I changed from one food item to another in order to avoid cross-contamination. My job required working with the foods of people with severe allergies on a daily basis. I still remember how I put the wrong plant-based cheese substitute containing allergens on gluten-free bread with the wrong gloves and I had to shout stop and the bread went into bio waste.
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Marko Jovanović 1 week ago
I've heard many times that people equate having gloves with hygiene, but for handling food washed hands is really all that is needed and maintaining clean hands is often simpler and cheaper than constantly changing gloves
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#2
Coughing and sneezing should always be inside your vampire cape or the very least covering your mouth so its not spewing out in front of you. I've lost count on how many people in public sneeze or cough without covering their mouth and see the germs being blasted throughout the area.
#3
The fact people had to be told to wash their hands during COVID. Why are you not washing your hands in the first place?
Robin Roper 1 week ago
It kills me when I see the signs that "employees must wash their hands with soap and warm water...." and hot water is not provided in the restroom.
#4
Stay home if you’re coughing and sneezing, and aren’t required to be out. Went to a movie recently with reserved seats with a person behind me coughing non-stop… I could feel the air from his cough moving my hair. Thanks dude… can’t wait to give my grandparents whatever bug this is on Thanksgiving.
Huddo's sister 1 week ago (edited)
Or wear a facemask. People seem to forget they can be used for things other than Covid. Mind you, a cough doesn't necessarily mean a contagious infection.
#5
If you can smell your body odour everyone can smell it too.
Huddo's sister 1 week ago
Doesn't mean you can do anything about it at the time though, which is embarrassing.
#6
Clean your dirty, stanky, musty, skid-marking butt holes. Trust me its not gay, you're not going to be emasculated or lose "alpha-ness". Its a body part to be cleaned. Get it together people.
#7
Dudes need to cut and trim their nails. It’s not gay.
Huddo's sister 1 week ago
Same as with women, they can be longer, but they need to be cleaned with a nail brush regularly.
#9
Using clean pillowcases.
Confused_Noodle:
Once I realized my acne flare ups were caused by dirty pillowcases, my constant acne problems disappeared
#10
Changing your hand towels (and the towels you use after showering) frequently.
#11
Properly cleaning your feet rather than just letting the soapy water go on them in the shower.
#12
Tonsil stones.
LonelyOutWest:
Why is this so far down?? Scrolled forever to find this one. I can smell these in someone from several feet away. The cleaning kits are cheap on amazon.
#13
Not closing the lid on their toilet bowl during flushing. Not aware of the fact that millions of faeces particles are floating around during flushing. Yes, if you don't cover your toothbrush, you do have faeces particles when you brush your tooth with. Yuck…..
UncleJohn3000 1 week ago
You needn't worry. You already have fecal matter particles all over your house. Don't read the studies unless you want to be huzzed out, though. No place is clean.
#14
Honestly, cleaning your phone screen regularly. It's basically a germ magnet we press to our face daily.
#15
Scrubbing your tongue. It’s key for fresh breath and often forgotten.
#16
Flossing—people act like it's optional, but your dentist can tell when you don’t.
#17
Cleaning your belly button. Yes, it needs attention too.
#18
How you wash your dishes. That sponge you bought 6 months ago is growing all sorts of bacteria.
Green Tree 1 week ago
An economical no-waste solution is to use wash rags instead and frequently toss them in the laundry. If you like the scrubby side save a net onion bag and put your wash rag inside to make better for scrubbing while not scratching
#19
Cleaning your piercing holes no matter how old they are.
Take your earrings out and scrub bc even non-stretched lobes can get built up and [it's] nasty.
#20
The stagnant water in the washing machine. Please please please run a cycle through with nothing in it but a cup of vinegar. The water in the drum does not drain entirely. The mildewy smell in your towels? Use vinegar. It's a deorderizer as well as bringing the fluffyness back.
#21
Wash your hands after using the restroom. Especially public ones, nobody wants food poisoning because you were in a hurry, stupid or just plain lazy.
#22
Changing your bedsheets.
Vivienne1973:
Ugh. I had a roommate at college who changed her sheets at the end of each semester...and that was it.
Barf.
#23
Great tips here about just washing areas most people don't bother, I'll add that properly drying your feet, arm pits and groin area is just as important. We often ignore the moisture between our toes and genitals then proceed to cover them up with clothes and underwear. That moisture just sits and creates bacteria, properly drying them with warm air from a blow-dryer can make a huge difference with respect to smell and general health. Learned this after years of athlete foot issues, I never bothered drying between my toes. Just got out, toweled off and put on my clothes. Its been a game changer ever since.
Huddo's sister 1 week ago
This also applies to hands. No point washing your hands properly and then not letting them dry fully. It doesn't matter whether you use a hand dryer or towel, the important thing is they are dried fully.
#24
Women like to parrot what they’ve heard on the internet that the vagina is a self cleaning organ and not wash themselves. Yes the v*gina is a self cleaning organ but the vagina is the inside, meaning douching is unhealthy. The vulva which is actually what’s on the outside needs to be cleaned just like every other area of skin.
Roxy222uk 1 week ago
What a bizarre pst. Makes it sound as if thousands of women around the world are not cleaning their vulvas and excusing themselves by claiming it's self cleaning. This isn't happening. At all. All women are made very aware of their vulvas and society's expectations very young.
#25
You're not supposed to rinse your mouth after you brush your teeth with fluoride toothpaste.
#26
Apparently around my age using deodorant??
I swear I see s**t ton of guys on a normal day smelling worse than I did after a 13h shift during summer...
Just use soap and any kind of deodorant you like, it's that simple and only takes you a few minutes.
Please.
#27
Lifting up b**bs, fupas, etc, to wash. think a lot of people were once smaller and not used to sweat collecting certain places once we gain weight the smell is...interesting
#29
Lads, clean your f*****g facial hair. Too many guys I know don't wash it at all because they think the shampoo running off their head is enough. You're going to give your partners a rash/acne.
#30
Cleaning your keys. I know that sounds insane, but hear me out. My husband carries a set of about 20 keys on a daily basis. They end up on my kitchen counter and I pick them up to move them out of the way. I can FEEL the grunge on them. And my husband is fastidious about hand washing. Well, I take that set of keys and soak them in hot, soapy water, then rinse and lay them out to dry. Next morning, they feel clean. The difference is shocking. Grunge to glorious. He thinks I’m crazy for washing them. I think about everything he touches when he’s out working and I don’t want all those germs in my house.
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LuisSD stuff 1 week ago
This has to be the most stupidest post for BP. 99% is common sense. If you haven't figured it out by now, you're hopless.
Val 1 week ago
You commented on most of them so it obviously interested you.
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David Morgan 1 week ago
What's offensive about it? They say that taking care of yourself is not an activity just for gay people, implying that gay people have good hygiene.
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LuisSD stuff 1 week ago
This has to be the most stupidest post for BP. 99% is common sense. If you haven't figured it out by now, you're hopless.
Val 1 week ago
You commented on most of them so it obviously interested you.
Load More Replies... David Morgan 1 week ago
What's offensive about it? They say that taking care of yourself is not an activity just for gay people, implying that gay people have good hygiene.
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