“Now couldn’t be a weirder time to question washing. I’ve spent the past three years reporting on how our notions of what it means to be ‘clean’ have evolved over time—from basic hygiene practices to elaborate rituals that involve dozens of products targeted at each of us by gender and age and ‘skin type.’ At the same time, the incidence of immune-related skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis has risen in the developed world, while acne is as pernicious as ever, despite the constant stream of expensive new medications and unguents sold to address it.” James Hamblin in The Atlantic: You’re Showering Too Much. (Not these days…)