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?

  • BlackLaZoR
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    325 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

  • riquisimo
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    275 months ago

    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.

    • kratoz29
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      25 months ago

      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.

      • riquisimo
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        15 months ago

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

  • @rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    265 months ago

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

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

    • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      155 months ago

      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.

      • Drusas
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        65 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.

    • @hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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      65 months ago

      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).

    • @Land_Strider@lemmy.world
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      65 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.

  • @dwindling7373@feddit.it
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    105 months ago

    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?

  • Xylight
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    5 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.

  • @jet@hackertalks.comOP
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    5 months ago

    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@lemmy.world
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      5 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.

  • Che Banana
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    75 months ago

    Not necessarily to be clean, but you should rinse off the chlorine (especially if you have hair). The hair gets really stiff & bleached if you don’t, especially if you go outside in the sun for awhile afterwards, and you’ll smell like chlorine.

    Source: I was young and once had hair.

  • ddh
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    55 months ago

    No, it’s fine.

  • Brickardo
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    45 months ago

    Yup, otherwise the wee wee looks like a tree stub

  • @Chai
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    45 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.