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People who say that having a bath means washing in your own dirt should compare how a bath really gets you clean but a shower doesn't. If you work with soil, mud, compost, oil, diesel, plants that ooze sap (especially pines, euphorbias, sumac), pesticides, dust and sh... you will appreciate the importance of having a bath.
If I scrub my nails and hands with a brush after one day at work, I can't get them clean. In fact, at the start of break and straight after work, I scrub my nails and hands as best I can. Even picking the dirt out and scrubbing them doesn't get them clean. Doing this and having a shower doesn't get them clean. Having at least a half hour soak in the bath does work. It is not always practical to wear gloves, and even with gloves, especially waterproof ones, when potting plants, they can gradually fill up with compost.
What I have spoken of, is visible dirt. There must also be invisible dirt that may be just as hard to shift, but its very invisibility means that, if you just have a shower, you don't know that it's still there.
At weekends, I'm quite happy just to have a shower, and on weekdays, a shower will usually suffice, but if I go for a Friday evening without having a bath, I am not a particularly nice person to know. Having mentioned all that filth, you are probably thinking two things: firstly, you're right, you're not a very nice person to know anyway, with all that mud and compost and soil and dist and pesticide residue; and secondly I can't believe I just read all this.
After you've been wallowing for an hour in such grime, it is advisable to have a rinse down under the shower.
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