should you or should you not be washing
your legs that is the question that has
divided households broken friendships
destroyed relationships but who is
actually right today we're throwing
ourselves and our employees into the
shower to find out whether gravity can
wash your legs for you and the results
May just change your life forever no
internet welcome to style Theory since
the dawn of mankind we have asked
ourselves the biggest of questions what
is the meaning of life why doesn't
Applejacks taste like apple and most
importantly of all do we need to
actually wash our legs now this might
seem like a ridiculous question but
believe it or not a 2019 Twitter poll
revealed that 20 of people when they
take a shower don't actually wash their
legs and we're not talking about a small
sample size here either more than 600
000 people responded to this thing which
means that 120 000 people who voted said
no they ain't touching their stanky legs
and the more you look around the
internet the more you see just how
heated this discussion can get you got
to get down in there because they're not
worked up about it I don't know you
don't watch your legs what do you mean
like washing my legs if you're in the
shower it's to get clean wash your body
the general thought here is that the
Soaps and shampoos that you use on the
top half of your body run down over your
legs thereby cleaning you in the process
so instead of doing the awkward naked
bend over moon in the gods above you
instead let gravity do all the work for
you but riddle me this theorist of that
20 who said they don't wash their legs
would you assume the voters in it skewed
more male or female identifying leave
the answer down in the comments below
right before you continue watching the
video no cheating I will know if you
cheat I have my
you done awesome well if you were like
me and we're part of Team dudes or gross
get ready to have your world rocked
according to a follow-up poll 80.7
percent of men said that they washed
their legs women
75.1 percent more women skip washing
their legs that was shocking to me I
think I need to apologize to all my
fellow men out there for assuming the
worst of you that said this can't
actually work can it you guys know that
we here at Team theaters are always
looking for ways to save you money and
ways to save you time so if there's an
optimized way to actually shower and
wash your body then we are going to be
here to test it so with two weeks left
to go before our new HR manager joins
the team we decided we put this mystery
to the test and throw everyone in the
shower I swear this is a channel that's
not going to get demonetized but before
we start throwing team theorists under
the old shower head we decided you know
hey let's actually learn a little bit
about how soap can actually clean our
body so we decided to bring in
theorist's own chemistry expert
Stephanie
hello I thought that there were going to
be some parts of our life and house that
didn't end up on one of these channels
and boy how wrong I was Welcome to our
actual personal room and bathroom in our
most personal of spaces yo that does
mean that we could write this square
footage off of taxes at least at the end
of the year yeah yeah that's great a fun
fact actually that's why the channels
are over there it's not like
optimization it's not about YouTube
trends things like that it's literally
like hey I want to buy video games
that's a tax write-off and I really I
need some new shampoo so let's start a
style Channel Also let's just let
everyone Rampage through our bathroom
and shower on camera speaking of soap it
turns out that soap is a very special
molecule in our lives called a
surfactant it's sort of a it's sort of a
yin and yang a little cat dog if you
will yin and yang
cat dog
man nothing like classic Nicktoons to
really compare all the other dyes the
lotions the perfume and stuff in your
soap don't actually contribute to
cleaning your body just this one type of
molecule does a surfactant molecule has
two sides an oily side and a watery side
we pretty much intuitively understand
most people that oil and water don't mix
but the thing is you have oil on your
skin that's what the dirt is it's extra
oil it's extra sort of greasy gross
build up it's awful stuff actually and
we are disgusting creatures honestly and
you can't get all of that oil off just
by running water over it because oil and
water don't mix that's where you need
soap so soap has its oily side that
sticks to the oil on your skin and
really binds to it so it can actually
get pulled off of your skin and washed
away and then the watery side sticks to
the water that's coming over your head
from the shower and together it lifts
the oil right off of your skin and
washes it away right down the drain so
soap is a really special molecule
because it actually Bridges the gap
between two things that should not go
together at all but one of the reasons
why soap can make you feel really dried
out is that the oily end of those
surfactant molecules is sticking so well
to the oil on your skin that it's
actually pulling all of the oils off so
most of the time a lot of people end up
putting some of it back on by putting on
lotion after your shower if you think
about it bathing is not all of that
efficient of a process it's really
interesting when you break down the
chemistry of this water is just kind of
like there is a passenger it's like the
support yeah it just carries away the
soap and the and the dirt but you
actually need something else to remove
the dirt from your body drop that
knowledge bomb next time you're in
science class that'd be amazing you will
blow your teacher's mind it's true
actually anyway uh you got to go get
changed now yes which segues US nicely
into the actual experiment to get the
cleanest results pun definitely intended
we had to account for a variety of
variables now obviously we can't just be
showering on camera songs covering that
one's for the only fans so our dress
code for the day was shorts and short
sleeves to try and leave as much skin
exposed as possible this then would
allow the water and soap to drip down
our bods naturally and freely wash away
as much dirt as it normally would
speaking of dirt our mess for the day
was a heavy oil-based coffee scrub less
likely to destroy our plumbing and also
a perfect way to ensure that everyone's
legs were equally dirty we also made
sure to all use the same soaps shampoos
and conditioners to keep the chemistry
as consistent across the board as
possible no additional variables here
scientific method eat your heart out
everyone was told to keep their shower
to 10 minutes and to ensure that we were
accounting for different shower habits
each tester was told to conduct their
normal shower routine as if they weren't
on camera for a million viewers no
pressure there the only change that we
made to their shower routines was asking
them to scrub one leg and not the other
that way we can get get a Visual and
tactile comparison between the two
immediately after turning the water off
fun fact this experiment led me to find
out that when it comes to leg washing
team theorist was very Pro scrubbing
across the board not a gravity user in
the house oh and that does remind me of
the one variable I haven't talked about
yet body hair obviously there's just a
natural difference between hairy legs
and shaved legs that might play into all
of this right so we decided to get as
large of a sample size as possible
across team theorists so let's bring out
a couple of our brave volunteers shall
we shown up again on the style Theory
channel it's Amy hello and then
representing the hairy leg is Sam wait
I'm not the hairy leg I have not checked
recently but I'll let you make the
Judgment call for yourself do you need
me to hold your leg do you want to okay
so look there it is hairy leg when was
the last time you shaved your legs uh
how old am I 25 never okay never Amy you
have been with the channels for a long
time is this the weirdest thing that
we've asked you to do it's getting
really close but I still think making me
lick Tootsie Pops on the internet that
will be there forever it's probably the
weirdest so far Sam you're one of the
newer members of the team yeah say hi to
everyone what what is one fact that I
want to know about you that'll be your
defining character trait from here until
the time you leave this company when I
was in elementary school I was
nationally ranked at Guitar that is
awesome actually yep that's really can
you do through the fire and flames on
Expert with my eyes closed whoa instead
of ever leaving my house or making
friends I played guitar hero is this
what you thought you were signing up for
when you're like yeah I'm gonna accept
that job offer a team theorist I don't
think I ever expected the day where you
would walk out and be like what are your
thoughts on getting in my shower on
camera I will say it is proving to be a
consistent career path
so what do you mean it's been a
consistent career path because Sam has
my old job and this is where I ended up
this is not looking good hey okay great
you guys get out of here get out of here
well let's let's move on to the
experiment after getting changed into my
monetization friendly wetsuit it was
time to get dirty using our dirt du jour
first up we had our brave volunteers Amy
and Sam by the way we noticed a big
difference between someone with hairy
legs versus someone with smooth legs the
scrub clung to Sam's hairy legs like
velcro well it had a harder time
sticking to Amy's shaved legs the dirt
just had less to hold on to maybe this
is why in the poll that we mentioned
earlier women admitted to washing their
legs slightly less than men many women
shave their legs so maybe they assume
that the Shaving is also soaping up
their legs removing a dirty layer of
scanner just that there's less hair for
the dirt to adhere to so while Steph and
I more in the state of our bathroom
floor Amy and Sam were ready to enter
the shower we're gonna scrub it all off
now quick note about the shower setup
showers typically come with either a
diagonal or overhead nozzle in our
bathroom we have a rainfall shower
meaning that the water is falling from
directly above the tester's head down
onto their body keep this one in mind
we're gonna come back to it later but
for now back to the bathroom where Steph
and I were waiting outside in a totally
work appropriate totally non-creepy way
we are the peanut gallery peeking in on
our employees as they take showers oh
this is this is going so wrong so many
ways today meanwhile keep in time we had
Josiah a new member of Team theorists
who struggled to understand how timers
work it just automatically starts it's a
preschooler clock we literally we bought
it for Ollie you just turn it and it's
just turn it it's going as we see is it
at 10. that's when the number is one and
zero are on there
that's the man who's responsible for
tracking our analytics we know how to
pick him after Josiah got himself a
quick lesson in preschool friendly
analog clocks we were ready to dive back
into the science of the day we uh forgot
to let the water warm up so Amy and Sam
got treated to a surprise
maybe there was a reason I had to go
first now right away we noticed some
interesting differences Sam was a face
to the wall kind of guy with very little
rotation under the shower head while Amy
with her noticeably longer hair had to
keep her back to the shower in order to
get the head fully wet we also got a bit
of an insight into Sam's hair care
knowledge which was Zero
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uh based on the fact that I didn't know
double shampooing was a thing I'm going
to say one thing well Sam that's why you
wash rinse and repeat yeah that's the
repeat part which honestly is a style
theory for another day does it actually
do anything yeah does the double wash do
anything because I used to never double
wash and I really just adopted the
double wash probably a couple of years
ago where the first wash it doesn't
really Suds up as much and it feels like
you're just getting like the surface
level Grime out and then the second wash
you're really able to get in there
already you could start to see that
shower technique was going to be
completely different for different
people Amy and Steph both classified
themselves as double shampoo washers Sam
and I we are single lather Bros in fact
truth be told most of the time I'm not
even using conditioner I think that
stuff is useless you're just making your
head greasy and then washing it all off
again just resetting you back to where
you began in the first place there I
said it go ahead and roast me in the
comments you can't make me use it anyway
the additional round of shampooing meant
that Amy and Steph would have more soap
coming down their legs over the course
of their shower than either Samurai
which might have resulted in cleaner
legs we'll just have to wait and see the
results here at the end for now I want
you to focus on this super impressive
lather that Sam's got going on maybe
this is why it doesn't need a second
round of shampoo he literally has Mickey
Mouse glove levels of Suds happening
there honestly I think I just need to
step up my shampoo game after this even
though our testers were taking the most
modest shower ever they did try to
recreate everything as accurately as
they could so the soap would run down
their legs naturally and we can see even
now that before either Sam or Amy got to
actually scrubbing a lot of the dirt was
already being washed away by the
combination of soap and water something
I did not expect to see so soon and that
wasn't the only thing blowing my mind
according to Amy shower time also meant
it was time to rock out like she was at
a concert is that really something that
you just do in the shower
she's like head banging in there I mean
that Satan's like a party yeah I feel
like I'm giving myself brain damage
doing this after throwing my neck out
emo style it was finally time for the
leg action Amy went for using the bar of
soap alone Then followed it up with
washcloth while Sam put soap on a cloth
first and then used that to scrub a dub
dub with the 10 minutes up it was then
time to see how well they did as a
reminder this is how their legs looked
pre-shower and these are the results
post shower theorists you know I'm
always honest with you I didn't expect
this one to work at all I thought for
sure we were gonna debunk the whole
gravity wash thing and well yeah you can
still visibly see some dirt remaining on
both of Sam's and Amy's unscrub left
legs it is so much cleaner than any of
us expected it would be but that's just
what we saw do their left legs actually
feel as clean as their right legs after
getting verbal consent Steph and I went
in for a closer inspection very clean
feeling like extremely clean not oily at
all
just decide oh definitely slipperier
like there's definitely like oil still
on the leg but visibly honestly like
very little coffee Remnant I would say
actually gravity did a pretty great job
and we found the same results for Sam
you can tell right away obviously very
clean you did a very thorough job I saw
you getting in there with the scrub
meanwhile over here you can definitely
see a lot of the visible coffee grounds
still apart and kind of like nestled in
the leg and actually you can see I think
where the line of water is that
naturally goes down the body right so
there it looks like there was a stream
of water that cut here and washed this
area of the calf off really well but
actually left this patchy spot over here
because that's not what that wasn't like
the direct path of water in like a
stream down the leg and here theorist
was the moment we stumbled upon the key
to our soap leg experiment shower
technique how you stand move and
interact with the shower environment
like we learned earlier soap can
separate the dirt from your skin but
without the water to act as
transportation that soapy dirt mixture
is just gonna stay on your body so how
you stand and move under the shower head
actually matters a lot if the water
isn't running over a part of your body
the grime ain't gonna be going anywhere
but this was only one set of data here
at Team theorists we are nothing if not
thorough in making sure that we have a
clean set of data to work with it was
time for round two we give it a go I
think it's time for Steph and I to put
our legs where our mouths are
this episode gets worse and worse but
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shower Steph and I slathered on our
questionable scrub it looks like poop
made sure we had ourselves a
well-balanced coating of Goo does this
look even you're missing one big love
right now
does this look even
we were ready for the water with me
representing team hairy leg and Steph
stepping up to bat for the hairless leg
now that we knew to pay close attention
to how the water flowed down our bodies
we were hyper aware of our natural
shower stances and habits turns out I'm
a pivoter I tend to always have my right
leg underneath the shower head and so
like it is my home base and so my left
leg actually stands out of the water a
lot which is ultimately I think
affecting my my results here but my
right leg was the one I wasn't scrubbing
I feel like it would actually becoming
really clean at this point but that's
not how it works I'm also a soap to the
body man look at that soap to skin
action Stephanie on the other hand was a
twirler spinning the soap in her hand to
gather a bunch of Suds and then using it
to wash her leg that's also not the only
Steph Pro Strat that I want to shout out
here take a look at her shower stance
what I'm gonna call the TSA pat down I
think I'm the only weirdo who literally
stands like they're being held at
gunpoint in the shower for like long
periods of time honestly Stephanie is
the hygiene in influencer we didn't
deserve but we needed and with that our
showers were done so it was time to see
if our results supported what we learned
from the first test here are our legs
pre-shower and here they are post wash
once again gravity stepped up to do the
job perfectly clean on both sides like I
I'm actually surprised the only residue
I see is right here vaguely just a
little bit Morse oil slick just but just
a tiny bit this is remarkably effective
and once again we saw the same thing
with my legs I did have a tiny bit of
dirt residue in my unscrubbed leg that
hadn't been the leg that I normally kept
under the water in my Pivot stance I am
certain it would have been completely
clean yes I'm very uneven in my washing
which is interesting I didn't really
realize that until literally today let's
take a look one more time at all the
before and afters for each of our test
subjects in each test we can clearly see
that the difference between the washed
and unwashed leg was slim this is one of
those episodes that I love from our
channels where I went in fully expecting
gravity to be completely debunked I'm
like there is no way that not washing
your legs is going to help get them
clean no way and yet here we are and I
mean like there's a slight difference
but it is so slight it is crazy it is so
much closer than I would have ever
anticipated so there you have it we've
proved it I am shocked to say this but
you do not have to wash your legs in the
shower that said there was one last
variable that we had to test so we've
looked at hairy legs we've looked at
smooth legs we've looked at shower time
we've looked at different showering
techniques the one thing we haven't
looked at yet though is shower type so
obviously all of these showers all these
initial tests are with rainfall showers
so the water is just literally pouring
right down over your head the question
is though a lot of people have the kind
of diagonal showers the shower head so
we have one other special guest who's
gonna have to shower all alone Josiah
Josiah
I'm ready for my own shower
so we have a shower in the basement for
you
where it's just gonna be you alone
and sad wow let's do this thing what a
team player so here I am down in the
basement uh to be honest I was really
looking forward to trying out the
rainfall shower and never done that
before but
still not going to try it so let's do
the diagonal
so wow
I've never used this shower before so
this was a worthwhile experiment
turns out uh you know
I thought we had better water pressure
down here we got another shower he
deserves better what a champ what a Paul
champ yeah after that disaster of an
attempt we were actually ready for our
final test and Josiah was so happy to
have himself a working shower he was
literally singing with joy
beautiful Josiah please don't leave us
for Broadway when they come calling
Josiah scrubbed down doing a devil
shampoo wash and went to town with his
washcloth suddenly I felt seen I was not
alone in my shower pivot technique
Josiah was a pivoter too ten minutes
later we had ourselves our final results
and I gotta say the before and after
doesn't lie here theorists the diagonal
shower head did a less efficient job of
cleaning with gravity alone Josiah was
left with the most dirt residue out of
any of the tests despite the only
changing Factor being the angle of the
shower head the fact that water was only
hitting one side of his leg and not
washing over him seeming to make a huge
difference so what does this mean for
the debate of washing your legs versus
not washing your legs it turns out that
science is almost as good at getting you
clean as doing it by hand provided
you've gotten yourself the right water
flow when you have a direct overhead
stream of water and keep a constant
rotation of your body under it and sure
that the water is getting to every bit
of your skin well then you can probably
get away without scrubbing your legs
that said if you have a diagonal shower
head that means the flow of water onto
your body is uneven and you're gonna
have to give in and grab a loofah to get
the job done so all you gravity
naysayers out there are gonna have to
take a seat the next time someone tells
you they don't wash their legs gravity
can in fact work thereby saving you soap
and time in the shower that said to all
my non-leg washers out there good scrub
every now and then it'll probably do you
good it'll help remove dead skin cells
and avoid ingrown hairs by exfoliating
your skin and if you get really dirty
like rolling around in mud or getting
sprayed by a skunk do us all a favor and
Scrub but hey that's just a theory a
style Theory keep looking Sharp
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