Is it true that it is not good to wash your body and hair too much?

ByHebe Aguilera

Human health andMicro-biomeResearch on scientists advances, some insist that they use "beauty items such as soap and shampoo, benign bacteria inhabiting the skin will be washed away." There, a female journalist stopped using beauty products and challenged the life of blowing a spray containing bacteria on the skin instead.

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A group of bacteria including intestinal bacteria parasitic on living organisms is "Micro-biome"Among them, microorganisms that exert a positive influence on the human body are called"ProbioticsI call it. Probiotics are contained in yogurt, pickles, etc., human being ingests on a daily basis, but research has not progressed much so it does not work very efficiently in the body.


The majority of microbiomes live in the intestines and gastrointestinal tract.


In addition, microbiome also lives on the surface of the skin.


While research on microbiomes and human health progresses, some researchers have begun to question the question "Do sanitary goods such as soap and shampoo adversely affect the skin on the contrary?"


At The Atlantic on the news site, we interviewed Julia Scott, a journalist who no longer uses beauty supplies. Mr. Scott seems to live beautiful goods such as soap, shampoo, antiperspirant, facial cleanser, moisturizer, etc. for a month without using it. Instead of beauty supplies, Mr. Scott seems to spray liquid containing bacteria on the skin, "It has become the most strange experiment guinea pig human beings can imagine," Scott says.


Scott's spray used,Nitrosomonas EutrophaIt contains live bacteria called nitrosomonas eutropha. Nitrosomonas Eutropha is a bacterium that lives mainly in the soil, living in the body surface of animals such as horses with many opportunities to touch the soil, but it hardly lives on the human skin.


According to the seller of Nitrosomonas Utoro Spray, this bacterium eats ammonia and acts, so it is possible to prevent body odor by spraying a spray on the skin. When asked an acquaintance about body odor, Mr. Scott seems to have said that "it smells like an onion". Also, what he realized when Mr. Scott began using the spray is that "the skin moisturizes naturally, and you can not have pimples at all without using beauty items".


Mr. Scott has obtained a spray with bacteria from Dr. Larry Weiss who is studying natural chemistry.


A company co-founder Dr. WeissAOBiomeSo we developed a spray with bacteria and commercialized it as a substitute for soap and shampoo.


According to Dr. Weiss, there are some good bacteria that have a good effect on the human body, among the bacteria that humans wash away when washing their bodies and heads. Even though I wash my skin everyday, it seems that bacteria naturally occur on the surface of the skin. Dr. Weiss argues that "Beauty supplies using chemicals should be discontinued and should utilize the power of bacteria included in human physiological functions."


When he sprays a spray on his skin, Mr. Scott says it is "a mood of planting unknown bacteria on the skin". However, even if the bacteria are blown onto the skin at all, it is said that all the bacteria are washed away when taking a shower three times. Mr. Scott seems to keep his face only with water in order to leave the bacteria on the skin. Mr. Scott insists that "use of beauty items such as shampoo and soap should be stopped, even if bacterial spray is not used."


Martin Blaser, pioneer of microbiome research, has a basic premise that "there are good and bad bacteria in bacteria" about utilizing microbiomes on human skin. My fungus supports human health.If you exclude the beneficial bacteria of the skin using beauty products and bactericide etc., you may think that it became beautiful emotionally, but the possibility that it is not actually the case It is expensive. "


A reporter at The Atlantic heard an explanation about micro biome and stopped using soap to wash hands. However, he says that he / she does not think "every human being should stop using soap", he says, "If we stop using soap, we can raise some money and time."