khaoz wrote:
for cleaning I mean? Specifically dishes?
It's not that it's necessary to wash the dishes with soap so much as
it's unhygienic to repeatedly eat from the same surface. Before dishes, humans used leaves and other disposable dishes. We don't need the soap; we need to go back to eating practices that don't require soap.
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And the human body. Other than for scent, is soap necessary to clean our body and hair or have we just been conditioned to believe that we are dirty and unsanitary, unhygienic, if we do not use large quantities of soaps, oils, lotions and emollients.
I don't think that it is necessary; it
can't be necessary, because humans evolved without it. They survived without it. I haven't bathed with soap in years. It's true that I have a small amount of residual body odor, but that is completely natural, doesn't bother me at all, and I don't feel the need to get rid of it. I doubt that people can even smell it unless they get very close. Humans are animals; animals have odors. Attitudes towards those odors are subjective and culturally determined. I still wash my hair with soap about once a month, though. I've seen one person online claim to have made it to the point of not needing to shampoo ever, but I haven't figured out how to do it.
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Maybe its part of a consumption society. Have to keep Proctor and Gamble in business and wot, ya know. Really though, is it all necessary?
Consumption society brainwashed into over-cleanliness. It's not necessary to kill every single germ outside of a medical setting, and doing so only creates resistant strains of bacteria and viruses. Life will always strive to find a way to adapt, to continue. Living with a reasonable amount of germs builds the immune system. Society puts too much effort into fighting nature rather than living in harmony with it.
22 May 2014, 7:48 pm
