Comments on: An Underappreciated Weapon Against Air Pollution: Our Dead Skin

By: gautam cuncoliencar

gautam cuncoliencar — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:20:44 +0000

you guys are loosing it !

By: geeta

geeta — Mon, 23 May 2011 08:27:57 +0000

Noting Matt B in #5 – I wonder if the dead skin gets ‘saturated’ or ‘warn out’ after so many cycles of ozone cleaning; much like air/water filters. If so, you just might have to look for another justification.
And the hair, being dead even while attached to the skin,presumably contributes to the de-pollution process before falling off. Does the cleaning action do something to the hair – the color/texture etc? Maybe hairy customers should get a concession on their next air ticket

By: Mui

Mui — Sun, 22 May 2011 22:55:19 +0000

I shower once a day in the summer (at night to cool off before bed for comfy sleeping), and every other day in the winter.

No, I don’t smell either.

The reason for the difference is in the winter I don’t got hot and sweaty. If you workout I can understand a shower afterwords. Though if I do play tennis it’s in the evening, and a weeknight so I’m not going anywhere. So that contributes to the once a night summer shower.

Yes, I also where pants for more than one day because jeans don’t get stinky or dirty after one day.

By: shadegem

shadegem — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:19:45 +0000

What gets me is that hair is also effective. It would also be a lot easier to create something out of long strands of hair than small flakes of dead skin. I wonder what the difference in efficiency is though…
In any case, I shed hair like crazy, so now I can tell my roommate that all the hair vacuumed up and clogging the bristles on the vacuum cleaner was being useful.

By: SusanA

SusanA — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:37:33 +0000

Now, I wonder if the positive effect of squalene can outweigh the negative impact of allergens like house dust mite in house dust? I’ve been telling people to dust more – should I be saying dust less, maybe?
http://www.allergycosmos.co.uk/blog/asthma-relief-why-use-an-asthma-air-purifier/

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:26:34 +0000

Finally, my habit of not dusting is vindicated. I’ll have to tell my mom that my whole lot o’ skin is cleaning the air.

By: Msafwan

Msafwan — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:53:28 +0000

luckly skin doesn’t cause asthma…

By: coryy

coryy — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:25:49 +0000

I dunno, as a professional gardener who likes to work out, but has to be presentable in between morning gardening and evening exercising, I get how 3 showers can happen:

morning, 7-noon: digging in the mud, weeding. Go home. bare minimum, wash up arms/face before lunch. Go outside and muck barn stalls.

3pm: pick up kids from school. shower beforehand or other moms look at you funny.
4-7 schlep children to various sports.
7 pm –workout, go home, shower. Go grocery shopping.

Depending on how muddy I got at work, it might be necessary to shower between lunch and barn chores, especially if it was a “accidentally have spider nest drop in your hat” or “weed the koi pond” day. Algae flavored sandwiches are not my favorite.

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 17 May 2011 13:46:42 +0000

2,3 times a day? Are you a professional jogger, a dung digger or what?!

By: Brindes

Brindes — Tue, 17 May 2011 13:30:56 +0000

So people that shower too much (2, 3 times a day like myseklf) would endup not only consuming unecessary water but also removing something (skin) that would help clean the atmosphere? Danm

Btw, what a great feet in this article picture! lol