One observation I have made since the first time visiting Brazil is that it seems like a lot of Brazilians don't have good skin complections.  Acne or some other sort of skin problem seems to be more prevelant than other places I've lived or visited.

Hi James,

Yes, I see acne scars on the cheeks of many teens/20 year olds, I've always wondered why.

Edited by danielmarkhobbs - 23 July 2010 at 10:05

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I have to take issue with your assumption (it cannot be experience) of a lack of warm water (you mean "Hot", I presume) in the UK. I cannot speak about the US as I don't know. But I doubt that there is any shortage.

I can tell you on good authority that there is Hot water available in all prisons, hospitals and homes in the UK. Certain caves in Wales and Scotland are without but the inhabitants, usually heavily bearded, including the women, seldom suffer from acne.

Acne, sun spots and other disfiguring skin ailments are not associated with a lack of hot water. On the other hand blackheads, pustular occlusions of sweat glands are all about personal hygiene - which is one area where one should never point an accusing finger at Brazilians.
Judging from my ridiculously high water bills my employees spend most of their free time under the shower...........

Bigsby-You can take issue all you want as you didn't understand the comment.  I didn't say the US and UK had any lack of warm/hot water-as you 'took issue' with.  I was comparing the lack of warm/hot water in all faucets in Brazil with the fact that the US and UK have hot water in all sinks.  The issue/comparison would be that the citizens of the US and UK have it much better as they can find warm water to wash their faces in bathroom sinks, where my experience has been in Brazil most bathroom sinks only have cold water.

Acne is the result of a bourgeois junk food diet. It is the new small pox of Brazil. Go by a private school letting out and the kids look like any N. American adolescents; pudgy, pasty and pimply faced.