Since they added that Water Conservation scenario in the game I sometimes end up with smelly sims who didn't get to the showers fast enough. Now I'm wondering why can't they just use their pools or if they live near large bodies of water go swimming and this should improve their hygiene. But nope. Somebody forgot (or choose not to include this) to change the coding so that they would eventually get cleaner. Water is water after all, right?
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I don't use MCCC.
Because, if just bathing in water worked, our ancestors would never have come up with soap. Seriously, they only bathed using water in the 18th century. Lye soap was way too harsh for the skin. Now, they did add to the bath water what was called Rose Water, which was a mixture of water-soaked rose petals and alum, which did stave off the need for another bath for a few days (kind of on the order of the first deodorant). Besides, I grew up in houses (2) that had swimming pools and it is necessary to shower afterwards to remove the chlorine.
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I don't use MCCC.
Lol no it doesn’t. Our skin produces oils that keeps all the muck clinging to us and as we know water and oil don’t mix. That’s where soap and shampoo comes in. Here’s a good test: during a shower with water only, scrape your skin with your nails then see all the gunk under them because you thought you were clean without soap lmao.
So I think it's realistic that sims bathing in pools or rivers raises their overall hygiene somewhat, albeit not as quickly or effectively as a proper shower, especially when washing hands and brushing teeth are presented as achieving the same goal despite being limited to only one small part of the body.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
Ok I understand coarse dirt, although I always feel and smell unclean after a swim in real life and shower afterward, which is why I think it makes sense for the sim. I guess it could also be situational. If your sim is exeptionally dirty then a dip in the pool could increase hygiene, but if your sim is already clean a swim would decrease it.