Do you take a shower after you swim?
If you swim in a pool that's correctly chlorinated, is it necessary from your perspective to shower after you get out of the pool?
If you swim in a pool that's correctly chlorinated, is it necessary from your perspective to shower after you get out of the pool?
Chlorine remains on your skin if you don't - and causes constant irritation. Also if you care about hair, you should wash it out with shampoo - water alone won't remove the chlorine entirely
In a public pool? Yes.
In the ocean? Most of the time. At least my feet; they get all sandy.
At home pool? ...eh, yeah normally now that I think about it. Warms you up and gets the chlorine off.
In the ocean? Most of the time. At least my feet; they get all sandy.
Huh? How hot is it where you leave?
I cannot express how much an improvement does it feels to take a proper shower after beach day here in my 30 Celsius average weather.
It's comparable. The temps here get in the 90's (F) but the water always feels cool or cold.
Yes. To get the chlorine or salt off my skin.
Never swam in a freshwater lake. But I think I probably still would.
Never swam in a freshwater lake. But I think I probably still would.
This is one of those little statements that just reminds you how big the world is. I've pretty much only gone to beaches on freshwater lakes, apart from a few vacations to far away places. The idea that it would be inverted for someone else is really jarring to my brain.
Meanwhile, as someone who grew up by a coast, I was shocked when I first heard somebody refer to a lake as a "beach". If you live somewhere that has both, lake beaches are not called beaches. They're just lakes or lakeshores.
Yes, no chlorine or saltwater but still residue there. However, if I was camping, I'd use sea or lakes to wash. If its a pleasure swim with facilities available, I'd always shower, or at least rinse off.
With chlorine I'll tend to wash my hair twice as its quite damaging and when home I'll use a cleansing shampoo (they help remove chlorine).
Freshwater lakes are quite nice to swim in and get out without showering. Skin can feel a little more coarse than when you get out of a bot bath, but still not uncomfortable enough by itself to warrant a shower. But if you have medium to long hair, you'd definitely want hot water and maybe soap/shampoo to untangle and unbunch it to feel comfortable.
Not a pool, but a hot tub, and yes, chlorine and pool chemicals can be harsh if they're left to dry on your skin.
Worse in your hair. There are even special shampoos for it.
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/beauty/g26871319/best-shampoo-to-get-chlorine-out-hair/
Of course? There's all kind of chemical, dirt, alive and dead stuff in unpurified water.
Do you think they, just, redirect rivers into plumbings for sanitary use?
I've had a few meetings in the morning, after my morning swim and decided to skip the shower entirely, and I felt fine. Nothing was a miss
I was mainly optimizing a way having to dry myself off twice. Which takes a bit of time.
LPT you don't have to dry yourself off before the shower.
If you don't have a shower near the pool I would at least rinse off with a garden hose.
I went 2 days without showering after a long time at a chlorinated pool and my hair was messed up for a while.
Not necessarily to be clean, but you should rinse off the chlorine (especially if you have hair). The hair gets really stiff & bleached if you don't, especially if you go outside in the sun for awhile afterwards, and you'll smell like chlorine.
Source: I was young and once had hair.
Yes. Once in a while is probably fine - growing up I'd occasionally "shower" in the swimming pool if we didn't have power after a storm (on well water, no power means no water) - but one summer I was in the swimming pool so much that the chlorine turned my hair green.
As long as you are fine with random skin and hair stuck all over your body you don't need one.
I love swimming, and going to the local swimming pool is one of my fave things to do. The chlorine makes my skin itchy and overall isn't too good for you, so I always make sure to shower after I'm finished! There's also just an extra layer of cleanliness that is felt after using the showers
I've never been in a pool as I have easy access to beaches (I still don't go anyways). I suspect many people here take showers after going to beach, to rid themselves of the sand that gets everywhere.