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ELI5: Why does a hot shower dry out skin when a hot bath does not?
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They will both dry out your skin, but some difference might be perceived due to this:

In a hot shower, you’re rinsing the moisturizing oils off of your skin and they’re going down the drain. In a bath, the oils that you just rinsed off are now floating on top of the water. You retain more of the oil that way. Same concept for body wash and other products. The moisturizing oils from those products have a better opportunity to soak into your skin when you’re laying in a bath versus rinsing them away with a constant stream of water.