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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?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

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

[–] rustyfish 26 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yes. To get the chlorine or salt off my skin.

Never swam in a freshwater lake. But I think I probably still would.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

vitamin c deactivates chlorine.

[–] Land_Strider 6 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's comparable. The temps here get in the 90's (F) but the water always feels cool or cold.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Not necessary, but much more comfortable.

[–] MrNesser 12 points 4 months ago

Yes the chlorine is generally bad for your skin and showering is refreshing

[–] jordanlund 12 points 4 months ago

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/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] berryjam 3 points 4 months ago

And people pee in the pool

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] norimee 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I went 2 days without showering after a long time at a chlorinated pool and my hair was messed up for a while.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

wait... you don't?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

No, it’s fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Name checks out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

As long as you are fine with random skin and hair stuck all over your body you don't need one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yup, otherwise the wee wee looks like a tree stub

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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.