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question for those that stripwash instead of shower

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eggyfart · 05/05/2019 19:27

our monthly water bills going up! so decided to stripwash instead of shower daily, but I use the shower for hair wash days (2- 3 times a week). Well just used the sink, feel lovely and clean. But I did seem to get a bit of water on the floor!

So tell me stripwashers how do ya do it!

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IAlmostCracked · 06/05/2019 21:03

I can't understand this at all. I just wouldn't feel clean after this. I shower every day, and even if not working, at the end of the day I feel dirty (and definitely am after a shift). A strip wash just wouldn't cut it for me.

Schnitzelvonkrumb · 06/05/2019 21:10

In terms of saving time, I'm not convinced having a proper basin wash is quicker? I don't think its dirty or stinky not to shower, if you wash thoroughly with soap but i just would have a really quick shower out of habit and quickness.

MrsJakeLovell · 06/05/2019 21:14

@DetectiveSantiago I wish there was a like button for your post!

Schnitzelvonkrumb · 06/05/2019 21:19

And as for pooey flannels contaminating your washing machine - words fail me.

I suppose this thread might be a bad place to ask if anyone uses "family cloths"? that inexplicably came up as an ad on my fb feed Essentially flannels for bum-wiping for eco-conscious folks instead of toilet roll.....😳🤢💩

MrsJakeLovell · 06/05/2019 21:22

www.seametrics.com/blog/global-water-crisis-facts/

A bath can hold 80 litres, while a conventional electric shower uses 62 litres of hot water in a typical eight-minute ablution and costs around 30p for water and electricity. Showering gets through 12 per cent of a Briton's daily water.

Even a 2 minute shower would use about 15 litres of water - more than the volume of water in a sink.

The vast majority of people do not work in manual labour or exercise physically every day therefore if you are wearing clean clothes, using clean bedding etc you shouldn't need to shower every day.

We need to start regarding water as a limited and finite resource.

And just for the pearl clutchers: my children used to have swimming lessons once a week. They showered ONCE a week after their lesson. Yes, ONCE! Grin - they're fine! (They swim and consequently shower about 3/4 times a week now!)

kbPOW · 06/05/2019 21:23

^ shitting hell!

kbPOW · 06/05/2019 21:24

My comment was to Schnitzel

SoyDora · 06/05/2019 21:29

I don’t see what I could have done in an average day that necessitates showering every single day. I don’t smell

Exercise?

Schnitzelvonkrumb · 06/05/2019 21:39

*kbPOW

^ shitting hell!*
😂I'm not endorsing it....no idea how it appeared as a featured ad on my fb. Can't imagine how many smelly people actually do this!!

Yoursilentface · 06/05/2019 22:00

If your doing a sink wash with just a basin of water, you're really just spreading dirt over yourself. If your doing it with a running tap, you're not really saving water. Either way you're not washing your entire body and your not properly rinsing all the dead skin and stuff off yourself.

So a shower is cleaner, your whole body gets rinsed with clean water.

Not saying you're not cleaning yourself in a sink wash, just saying it's not as clean as a shower.

ReganSomerset · 06/05/2019 22:03

. If your doing it with a running tap, you're not really saving water.

You turn the tap off between uses, rather than leaving it running the whole time.

00100001 · 06/05/2019 22:08

"Either way you're not washing your entire body and your not properly rinsing all the dead skin and stuff off yourself."

So once again. I guess you never gave your child a top and tail wash. Never gave them a bath without showering after. And never just wiped any part of their body with a wipe.

Naturally you out them in a shower from day 1, otherwise they just couldn't possibly be clean?

BlackeyedGruesome · 06/05/2019 22:19

feet can be done in the bath under the tap if you are not supple enough to get feet under the basin tap or prefer not to contaminate the sink.

FormerlyFrikadela01 · 06/05/2019 22:41

So once again. I guess you never gave your child a top and tail wash. Never gave them a bath without showering after. And never just wiped any part of their body with a wipe.

So funny that not a single person seems to want to address this.

kbPOW · 06/05/2019 22:50

So once again. I guess you never gave your child a top and tail wash.

Because a stinky adult human has so much in common with a baby in terms of hygiene needs. Hmm Probably why everyone is ignoring it....

Scarcelyburnt · 07/05/2019 00:18

Naaaasssstttyyyy! Stripwash, yuck.

GirlRaisedInTheSouth · 07/05/2019 02:08

Have people on here never heard of shower caps?

IfOnlyOurEyesSawSouls · 07/05/2019 02:31

Iv worked on womens wards a lot.

there is a definite female odour when you have women who strip wash.

And its not from unwashed clothes.

Yoursilentface · 07/05/2019 03:16

So once again. I guess you never gave your child a top and tail wash. Never gave them a bath without showering after. And never just wiped any part of their body with a wipe.

It's not practical to shower a baby. Plus a baby bath is a bigger volume of water in relation to the baby. I never said a sink wash won't get you clean. I said it won't get you as clean as a shower. A bath will get you cleaned than a sink wash because your washing your whole body, you can properly rinse and its more water so the dirt isn't concentrated in a small anount, a shower will get you the cleanest.

And no I never top and tail my kids, it's more of a faff to get not as clean as a bath - bit like a sink wash vs a shower.

Yoursilentface · 07/05/2019 03:19

Plus babies haven't gone through puberty so lack the hormone based smells that adults do and rarely sweat.

Babies also don't need deodorant do they.

YouJustDoYou · 07/05/2019 05:46

My mum used to give massages. She said you could tell the women who only strip washed, the smell of their intimate parts was stronger and more pongy.

Duster12 · 07/05/2019 06:47

What an odd and frankly untrue statement for your mother to make about other women Confused

00100001 · 07/05/2019 06:52

I'm just saying that if a child can be clean with a bath or a flannel wash. Then so can adult.

It's insane for people to be saying that a wash with a flannel, soap and water from a sink doesn't get you clean. But a flannel, soap and water from a shower will

picklemepopcorn · 07/05/2019 06:59

PEOPLE WHO SMELL DONT STRIP WASH. It's more about their clothes.
The stuffy jumble sale smell from clothes crammed in a closet and not worn often.
The heavy, sour smell of someone who doesn't change their underclothes.
The stale sweaty smell when antiperspirant hasn't worked.

And there's the smell even 'clean as a whistle' people get when they are very anxious. When I am very very stressed- think sick with dread- I get a vile sour smell, the smell of fear. It's nothing to do with when I had a shower, it's an instantaneous stress response.

lotusbell · 07/05/2019 07:01

@GirlRaisedInTheSouth, shower caps are mainly useless, never found a good one yet.
Can't speak for everyone, although plenty on here like to, but my use if a strip wash is as a 'top up', I dont rely on it as my sole method if washing as plenty here seem to think. It's a stop gap, a quick fix. As another poster said, most people do not get that dirty or smelly each day, so a thorough shower/bath wash every day (or twice a day) is just not needed. For me, as long as my pits and bits are clean, the rest can wait. It's similar to people who wash their clothes after one wear - most people aren't rolling around in mud every day. Honestly cannot see why people don't understand. Disagree, fine but it's baffling that some just can't understand how it works.