Personal Cleanliness – Our environment has so much to do with our health. Our school, workplace, malls and even our home could affect our health. So I created and summarize a guidelines to achieve a perfect health habits specifically in our personal cleanliness.
Importance Of Personal Cleanliness?
Basically, personal cleanliness is important because it contributes a lot in acquiring pleasant personality, healthy skin, healthy body and a pleasant body smell. I mean you just don’t inherit a healthy body and mind. It comes with healthy habits like: exercise, proper food, cleaning our hands, fingernails, hair, teeth and gums and wearing presentable and clean dress all the time. Once failure to do with those habits its either it will cause bad image physically or it will cause illness in our body.
Personal cleanliness 101 includes:
- Taking a bath everyday helps our body free from disease-causing germs.
- Wash,trim and clean your hair.
- Cut fingernails.
- Brush teeth at least 2-3 times a day. It keeps our teeth and gums healthy.
- Use mouthwash and dental floss everyday.
- Use facial cleanser.
- Wash hands before meal.
- Don’t forget to wash your hands after using the toilet.
- Don’t forget to shave.
- Always use antiperspirant/deodorant.
- Wash and clean your ears.
- Cover your mouth and nose when your sneezing.
- Wash clothes properly.
- Wear comfortable and clean clothes.
- Iron clothes to kill bacteria and microbes.
- Hanging clothes under the heat of the sun also kills bacteria and microbes.
- Wear sleeping clothes so we can sleep comfortable.
- Sleep early.
- Change clothes when were wet.
- Change socks after 1-2 days of using.
- If possible have an extra pair of shoes to avoid unpleasant odor.
- Just stay at home if your sick to avoid spreading or virus.
- Clean home regularly.
- Do not share your personal things to prevent spreading of bacteria and any other possible illness.
A poor personal hygiene always affect the social aspect of the person. As most of the them bully the person who had bad hygiene instead telling them directly so they can improve themselves.
Also a poor hygiene also affects in job applications, client interviews and meeting and work promotions because no company wants to have a representative who does not appear presentable and clean to the clients .
Good personal cleanliness is the first key to achieve a good health. Some people may find it hard and just setting aside personal hygiene because they are busy with their work,business, family, plus home responsibilities. I salute them for doing that. But at the end of the day it’s all about taking care our-self . We need to invest time and effort to maintain healthy lifestyle because at time will come all diseases and illness will come to us.
” Healthy body is the combination of determination, hard-work and patience. “
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What do you think our tips to personal cleanliness? Make sure to put your comments below.
I agree, having healthy lifestyle is not only eating healthful foods but also taking care of our hygiene.
Cleanliness aside from eating healthy food is also important in having a good health. There are so many communicable diseases now that if keep a good hygiene we can easily catch up. Great tips!
Yes, we should keep a good personal hygiene. Although I have to admit that ever since I’ve been working from home, there are times when I skip baths for a day. Lol.
Healthy habits are combination of little small things. Thanks for this list of yours.
For me, personal hygiene is very important. I am used to washing my hands very often. Sometimes, my children are telling me that I overdo it but I just cant help. Maybe because it’s already a habit.
Personal hygiene is really important as it keep us clean, free from infection and healthy.
Personal Hygiene is really important for me and teaching my kids is a MUST ! Thanks for this great list.
I make sure I teach my daughter the importance of being clean and healthy.