The Negative Effects of Poor Personal Hygiene in Your Life

Your body is the vessel that moves you towards any destination in life but the quality of this journey depends on the vessel's level of maintenance.

The basic way to take good care of your body is by following a proper personal hygiene and grooming routine.

But if you don't, the negative effects of poor personal hygiene will affect your voyage, so that, you'll never fully enjoy it.

Let’s see how bad personal hygiene affects different aspects of your life.

What is bad personal hygiene?

Bad personal hygiene is when you don't wash your hands after using the toilet, when your working desk is dirty, when you stink without giving a damn about what other's think.

Bad personal hygiene speaks volumes about your character whether it’s laziness, self-neglect, poor mental health, or simply a lack of education about hygiene.

The consequence of bad personal care often is an unhealthy or an unattractive physical appearance. This lack of personal presentation affects how others perceive you. They might think of you like an unorganized person, dangerous for their environment or transmitter of diseases.

The main disadvantage is that nobody likes having around somebody who stinks, is dirty or is improperly dressed. People who behave like that are believed to put at risk other peoples environments.

The negative effects of poor personal hygiene on:

1. Personal presentation

Definition

Personal presentation is the skill of communicating about yourself through your physical appearance.

It represents your ability to impress a job interviewer or date, for example, to earn a chance of getting your foot in the door.

How poor hygiene affects your personal presentation?

Poor personal hygiene affects your personal presentation. This hurts your self-esteem and confidence.

As a result, you end up having a hard time attracting opportunities, interesting people and success into your life.

For example.

Let’s imagine, you are an employee with cleanliness and personal hygiene issues, who wants a promotion at work. What are your chances to get the promotion?

A study shows that 23% of employers are less likely to promote an employee with poor personal hygiene or bad physical appearance.

Your poor personal hygiene is a major reason for the employer not to promote you. Let's look at some of the reasons:

jokes about your bad hygiene will spread throughout the office which will damage your reputation in the eyes of your co-workers.
your inappropriate personal presentation in the workplace will affect your self-esteem and confidence.
an employer who cares for his team’s health and safety will pass on an employee who might bring potential risks into the team.
poor personal hygiene hurts your professional image which leaves a negative first impression on the client, on the customer and on an investor

Now, you can see how bad hygiene affects your personal presentation and how this affects your success in building your career.

2. Social life

If you want to have friends don't embarrass them with your poor hygiene.

The problem here is that, most people won't tell you that your hygiene issues are disturbing them. They'll simply leave your company without explaining why.

That makes sense.

It's your job to be aware of the effects of your poor hygiene on others.

It's expected from you to understand that:

bad breath minimizes the chances of having a romantic relationship or simply enjoy a conversation with an interesting person.
a bad body odor makes your friend's eyes watering or even want to gag.
People avoid shaking hands with you when they notice that black layer of mud under the fingernails.
Wearing dirty and stained clothes makes you look unattractive and unprofessional.

Many poor personal hygiene like these affects your social life.

3. Health

Poor personal hygiene allows harmful microorganisms invade your body which weakens your health and well-being.

For example.

if you don't brush your teeth develop gum disease or carries.
If you don’t scrape your tongue this may cause bad breath out of your mouth.
if you don't shower your body may release bad body odor.

Good hygiene, or personal cleanliness, not only helps maintain a healthy person but is important in preventing the spread of infections and disease.

Conclusion

The consequences of improper hygiene affect many aspects of your life.

It worsens your relationships, career, social life, your health and more.