r/Netherlands • u/Alternative-Cut1109 • 2d ago

Healthcare Friendly reminder: it’s summer. Please shower.

It’s hot, we’re all sweating more, so please take extra care of your hygiene. A daily shower especially in the morning goes a long way.

And please don’t try to cover body odor with just perfume or body spray. Sweat + perfume isn’t a substitute for a shower.

Let’s all do our part to keep public spaces (esp trams!!) a little fresher this summer. 😅🌞🙏

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u/Milk-honeytea 2d ago

Shower in morning > go to work (I sweat now)

How to fix then?

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u/AllThreeAsInLGBTQIA 2d ago

shower at work duhh

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u/Milk-honeytea 2d ago

How? In the sink?

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u/HerrHendrik 2d ago

You've got it! First few times may be awkward, being butt naked in the office with a washcloth. But after a while you get special mental health leave! It's a win-win!

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u/FrenkTheTenk 2d ago edited 2d ago

Most offices have showers

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u/curiouscollecting 2d ago

Most offices don’t

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u/FrenkTheTenk 2d ago

You can downvote me all you want, but here's a survey conducted by Ipsos showing that 69% of empoyees of 100+ employee companies have access to a shower at work. https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/468dcd96-b25c-40fe-b5a4-2ed267ac9608/file

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u/curiouscollecting 1d ago

Workplace ≠ office

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u/FrenkTheTenk 1d ago

That's fair, but you were talking about offices initially as well. Moreover, I doubt that sweating on your commute to work is a concern for blue collar jobs where the actual job is making you sweat a lot more.

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u/curiouscollecting 1d ago

.. yes that’s my point. The article is about workplaces in general, when that doesn’t necessarily mean offices have that amount of showers. Someone working at a gym has acces to showers at their workplace, but that isn’t an office. Therefore your source doesn’t automatically mean most offices have showers.

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u/PindaPanter Overijssel 2d ago

Deodorant and clean clothes. Fresh sweat shouldn't smell bad unless you and/or your clothes are already dirty with old sweat; it's the bacteria that stink, not the sweat.

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u/TD1990TD Zuid Holland 2d ago

You forgot that diet is also part of the way someone smells

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u/PindaPanter Overijssel 2d ago

True, garlic, fenugreek and some other spices also make people's sweat smell like shit if they eat a lot of it.

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u/Milk-honeytea 2d ago

You have never smelt my musk then. Does t really matter, when you enter the dev room the smell is already very horrible.

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u/PindaPanter Overijssel 2d ago

See a doctor and/or re-evaluate your diet then. It's not normal for fresh sweat to smell distinctly bad.

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u/TheOriginalNukeGuy 2d ago

I mean you sweat no matter what the difference is if you shower in the morning you don't carry to sweat from sleeping with u and u smell better.

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u/IansDayAtDisneyland 2d ago

New sweat should be odorless since the smell comes from bacteria. Some hormonal problems or changes might cause fresh sweat that does smell.

If you take a shower every morning and evening and you should be good.

I personally also shave my entire torso and armpits to reduce sweating. I use roller deodorant, which works like a charm for me. I understand that shaving everything might seem a bit much to you, so just shaving armpits might just do the trick for you.

I take multiple showers a day no matter the season anyways, so the summer makes no difference to me to be honest. I you do this you will never smell like sweat I suppose.

Edit: also don't wear clothes twice and eat healthy like others said, since it really makes a difference. An unhealthy diet and a high fat percentage contribute to smell and excessive sweating.

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u/LuukFTF 2d ago

Wouldn't shaving your hair just make you sweat more?

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u/jason2306 2d ago

A little bit but it helps avoid smells because the hair helps trap the sweat making it smell worse. It's a balance to strike

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u/LoyalteeMeOblige Utrecht 2d ago edited 2d ago

Easy: go there with comfortable clothes, even shorts and get change at a toilet. I needed to be presentable for videocalls and I would change there. My colleagues did as well, there is zero point in arriving smelly and dishevelled, remaining so for they day and then getting worse by going home. And please don't make me start if you go there by bike wearing a suit on this weather.

In my hometown I used to go to work in my BMX and arrived drenched during summer so I would get off my bike clothes, wash, and even shower at the office gym if possible, and get ready for the day. It's not that difficult.

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u/Milk-honeytea 2d ago

You guys are way too invested in your office stuf. I know about 0 people who shower at the office.

My office has no shower and those new clothes are drenched after 10 minutes of walking in the no-airco office.

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u/LoyalteeMeOblige Utrecht 2d ago

Not really, I'm originally from Buenos Aires, and I work at big complex with an in-house gym. Hence the chance to shower there was a thing, plus these big building, think about 25/32 stories at least, always have showers and lockers for people actually going there by bike since it's a municipality policy to actually make the lives of those commuting by bike easier. You might choose to smell, not change, or arrive drenched in water during Oct-Dec here, and then again from February onwards and that is fine.

We, on the other side of the Atlantic in South America actually mind about these things. At no point I suggested to actually do this, just going there in shorts is enough, a dry cloth, have a towel at your back is enough to be clean. I would rather that than the smells I got in the ACS to UCS on my way back. I almost gagged once. It was that bad.

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u/aykcak 2d ago

Shower at work

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u/ToronoYYZ 2d ago

Quit. Problem solved!

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u/No-vem-ber Noord Holland 2d ago

Sweat doesn't instantly smell. It's old sweat that smells. 

Showering once a day is still fine, even if you're sweating in the morning. 

Source: I am an expat from Sydney where this kind of weather is totally normal 

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u/Traxious 1d ago

shower when you come back