One woman who claims to have transformed her bathroom into a “gothic apothecary” rounded out the vibe by artfully placing a copper strainer full of oranges on her shower-side table. Meanwhile, people are also spreading the gospel of the shower orange on TikTok, where quirky wellness hacks go to live their best lives. It’s a pretty nice place as far as internet forums go. That comment birthed the forum r/ShowerOrange, which calls the practice an “enlightenment of the soul.” The sub-Reddit currently has 80,000 members, who post detailed accounts of their first shower-orange experiences and photos of their shower caddies with a citrus orb hanging out among the loofahs. The shower orange appears to have first emerged on Reddit in 2015, when one user described the godly experience under a post asking for unconventional activities worth trying. Personally, between the orange goo getting under my fingernails and the excruciatingly slow process of removing tiny pieces of skin, I find the whole process pretty stressful, but clearly I’m missing something. There are allegedly some mental-health benefits to the act of peeling an orange, which is a popular mindfulness exercise.
Some devotees also say an orange tastes nice and refreshing in a hot shower and that the setting circumvents the problem of sticky hands. Why shower with an orange, exactly? According to shower-orange disciples, the steam helps release the scent of the orange peel, transforming your bathroom into a gloriously citrusy spa. For example, have you tried eating an orange in the shower? Of course, the options are more limited for those of us with fewer resources, but thankfully we have TikTok, which is full of shortcuts to feeling (temporarily) at peace. You can submerge your body in a tank that stops your senses from working at all. The modern world is filled with ways to dissociate. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut Photos: Raquel Perez Garrido / EyeEm/Getty Images, id-art/Getty Images
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