Hygiene

"Keeping clean is easy with regular showers or baths, but little things like brushing your teeth and washing your hands matters too."

- The Sims 3 Hygiene is a motive in The Sims series. A Sim's hygiene will gradually decrease over the course of the day, and will decrease faster if they are engaged in messy activities. Therefore, it is necessary to take a bath or shower regularly in order to keep the motive up—a hot tub also works, but not as well. Washing one's hands after going to the bathroom also improves this rating, as does brushing teeth or gussying up in the mirror. In order to facilitate the latter activities, be sure to have a medicine cabinet, a mirror, and a sink.

Activities that decrease hygiene
Some activities or events cause a Sim's hygiene need to decrease faster then normal. Some examples are:
 * Most forms of exercise unless a Sim uses the "Don't Break a Sweat" tone or has the Gym Rat reward trait.
 * If a Sim's bladder need bottoms out, they will pee themselves which will instantly bottom out the hygiene meter.
 * Being near a fire. In The Sims, only extinguishing a fire will cause a Sim's hygiene to decrease.

Hygiene on community lots
Most community lots will not have any ways of increasing hygiene other than sinks. In The Sims: Superstar, some Studio Town lots have steam baths and hot tubs, but none of them boosts hygiene sufficiently. Therefore, it's best to get the hygiene meter as full as possible before going out.

Bathing isn't a problem on Vacation Island, as all lots except for Wren's Fens National Park have showers, and all resort lots have baths. Likewise, it's not a problem in the Bon Voyage vacation destinations, as baths and showers are available in hotels as well as the campground in Three Lakes. Some community lots which offer massages, saunas, or hot springs may have bathrooms with showers. Most community beach lots in Twikkii Island have showers. The Sims 3: World Adventures' all three destination worlds provide showering/bathing fixtures in base camps, as well markets that offer shower in a can which are used prominently for adventuring.

Hygiene and other life states
Servos, PlantSims, SimBots and Plumbots have no hygiene motive, though a PlantSim's water motive has some elements of hygiene. Bigfoot is largely indifferent to his own hygiene, and will not bathe unless directed to by the player. Mermaids have hydration, which unlike hygiene can be fulfilled standing in the rain and will die if not splashed with water before the final related moodlet expires.

Other ways of affecting hygiene
In The Sims, The Sims 2, The Sims 3, and The Sims 4, there are alternative ways of raising, or maintaining, hygiene.

The Sims
In The Sims: Makin' Magic, magical children can use the No More Puddles? charm to take a magical "bubble bath". For adults, the Magic Mood charm can boost all motives, including hygiene.

The Sims 2
In The Sims 2, Sims with less than 2 Neatness points will take a sponge bath from a sink if their hygiene meter drops to the point where they begin to stink. This action is completely autonomous and cannot be prompted, nor will the action come up again during a visit if the player interrupts it. If left in the queue, Sims will proceed to the nearest sink and bathe themselves, raising their hygiene bar to approximately 75%.

Teens and older can use the primp self-interaction in order to get a slight hygiene boost.

In The Sims 2: FreeTime, the player can spend aspiration benefit points on a perk that decreases hygiene decay rate. With enough points and the Knowledge as a primary/secondary aspiration, the perk can be spent twice to reduce the drop rate even more.

In The Sims 2: Apartment Life, neutral spell Cleanus Corpus boosts hygiene on whoever it was casted on.

The Sims 3
In The Sims 3, Sims with the inappropriate trait have the option to take a sponge bath in any sink. Differing from The Sims 2, this action can be prompted by the player.

The player can buy the Dirt Defiant lifetime reward (for 15,000 Lifetime Happiness points) for a Sim, which will decelerate their hygiene

will make it take longer before the Sim with that reward has to take another bath.

In The Sims 3: Ambitions, Sim inventors can also invent the Floor Hygienator, which is placed on the floor and improves hygiene levels slightly when walked over.

In The Sims 3: Supernatural, witches can cast Hygiene Charm and Hygiene Curse to increase or decrease hygiene.

In The Sims 3: Into the Future, using Power Cleanse option with a Sonic Shower gives the Sim Pristine Protection moodlet, which stops hygiene decay for 5 hours.

The Sims 4
In The Sims 4, a Sim can buy a special potion from the aspiration reward store for 100 satisfaction points, which will immediately fill the hygiene need. The Antiseptic trait can also be bought for 3000 satisfaction points, which makes the Sims hygiene meter decay slower. Lastly, the Forever Fresh trait can be bought for 8000 satisfaction points, which will permanently max out the hygiene need.

The Sims 3
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Pets
Pets, like Sims, have hygiene motives and need to be fulfilled. Cats will clean themselves, but dogs will need to be washed by a Sim, which can sometimes be hard if a dog likes to be dirty. In Unleashed there are dog baths for dogs, but in The Sims 2: Pets dogs will need to be washed in regular bathtubs. When the dog jumps out of the bathtub, they will leave a puddle behind, so it's handy to have a mop ready for that as well.

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