Take it from asshole-extraordinair Adam Corolla. he stopped bathing for several months and was hospitalized with a horrific staph infection that wouldn't have grown if he had just washed himself.
Wipes are much worse for the environment than showering. Gray water is recycled, it's used again, it's not contaminated, the earth does not lose any water when you shower. If you take a shower you're not taking drinking water from someone. When you shower, the water you shower in is decontaminated and then reclaimed by the Earth's natural processes, and distributed into some other area to be used again, ad infinitum, for the remainder of time. The water that you shower in was used millions of years ago by the dinosaurs, it's not going away. In a hundred thousand years, the air that some distant relative of yours breaths will be made up of the same molecules that you used to clean yourself in your shower.
On the other hand, the wipes that you're using don't break down easily. They take hundreds, thousands of years to break down. Most wipes aren't made of "natural" resources. They're usually plastics -- polyestre and polypropylene with paper products or cotton added to them, because the paper products are fused with plastic, they're difficult to recycle easily, and the recycling process contributes to pollution, let alone the trees that need to be felled for wood pulp, the natural environments that need to be replaced with cotton fields, and the extraction of fossil fuels from the earth to produce the plastic that makes them up. The chemicals used for scents or for "cleaning" don't break down easily, they wash into natural water supplies and end up contaminating lakes and rivers.
Worse off, if you flush those wipes down the toilet, they don't break down at all, they clog sewer lines, they're not flushable, they lead to public health crisis of contaminating drinking water, and the chemicals used on them get into the water supply which then makes it harder to clean that water supply and return it to the earth's natural processes.
For the love of god, if you love the earth, just take a shower once a week instead of using wipes. Wipes do not clean you like a simple shower does. You're festering bacteria and other harmful biological agents on your body, getting those on your sheets, clothes, and other materials. A simple, quick shower of soap and water -- even just once, twice, three times a week -- will provide cleanliness that would otherwise take thousands of wipes which do undue harm to the environment.
God it's back.
This is the QAnon of Era/Gaf conspiracy theories. Just when you think you've killed it, someone hears about the natural oils that make you not smell after 2 weeks of not bathing.
