To ask how often you shower / wash?

[springthorn]

This came up in a conversation with friends the other day. Some shower morning and night, some just once a day, others only once every couple of days and then others only when they have to leave the house, so potentially less than that! Just wondered what was "normal" for you?

Shower every other day, more often than not once a day if I've exercised. Very dry skin and a few skin conditions that get extremely irritated by water/washing. Lucky I'm not a smelly person :-)

Gosh you lot shave a lot. My pits get done if I'm going swimming and then only if I remember.
My husband fortunately was at an impressionable age when Nena did 99 Red Balloons.

Oh I shower once a day but never or very rarely twice.

I shave my legs about 4 times a year but I am not that hairy.
I shave my armpits every couple of weeks.

I shower every day, once a day, except if I feel lazy (mostly Sundays if I stay at home) or if I have self defence classes (I shower before as well because of the close contact we get).

Shower every morning and I wash my hands, face, pits n bits every evening. I like to feel fresh and clean in the morning and it feels really nice to crawl into bed when you're all freshly washed.

shower or bath every day usually, odd time it gets missed if I am out late or feeling lazy but would then shower in the morning. sometimes I do twice, but always was morning and night even after shower or bath. after 23 years married I asked DH if I had ever smelt, he said only once had he ever detected a slight whiff of sweaty armpit,

come I did with the really bad person and it is sorted but it was difficult and horrid to do.

I try to shower ever morning and mostly I do but sometimes just can't be arsed.

Showering twice a day isn't something I'd do unless I was actually filthy.

Isn't it bad for the skin?

I can't wake up properly without a shower. I wash my hair every morning too.

If we're going out, I'll shower again, but not otherwise.

I shower every morning or i look like a hedgehog on a bad day,

Bath 2 or 3 times a week, hair washed maybe twice a week. Deoderant....It's a shower in a can ;)

in the summer once or twice a day in the winter maybe 3 times a week

Every day, quite often twice (after gym session).

I shower every morning without fail and sometimes, like today when I went to the gym, I'll have another one.

In the summer or on holiday I tend to have a second shower late afternoon/early evening if I've been wearing suncream as I hate that sticky feeling that it leaves on your skin.

Shower every morning, and again in the evening, if I want to. I would feel horrible if I didn't have that morning shower.

Hair washed every other day.

I shower at least once a day, normally in the morning (otherwise I can't wake up). If I go to the gym, I shower after the gym, and if it's summer and hot I shower in the evening as well (particularly after being on the tube which is just rank, particularly if you end up near someone who doesn't believe in washing/deodorant).

usual suspect 'every birthday and Christmas' whether I need it or not

We used to have baths once a week as kids, and a stand-up at the sink underarm wash every morning from puberty onwards. I think I have some weird issues around personal hygeine now because to get in the shower always seems like a big thing, it's freezing when you get out and takes ages to get dry. I don't know why I see it as this big thing though when others clearly don't and just do it as a matter of course every day

I need to wash my hair about once every 2-3 days or it starts to get greasy. Currently I'm trying to exercise 2-3 times a week and that always makes me want to shower without fail.

Shower daily in the morning normally. (very occasionally miss a shower but only when not planning to leave house)
I only wash my hair every 3 days as its very dry and washing too often dries it out.
In very hot weather I might shower in the evening as well if I feel really sticky.

It's like another world

Twice a week, probably, one of which a hair wash. I genuinely have the shiniest, strongest hair in the school playground, and always had the clearest skin in my year as a teenager. I have naturally dry and sensitive skin, and am lazy so don't sweat much

You can still smell shampoo on my hair by the next time I wash it. I wear clean clothes every day and use APD daily. I do not use body lotion or moisturiser (my skin can't breathe if I do so I react horribly even to E45 etc).

In other words, I'm lucky. There's genuinely less to wash off than there is for other people.

Wash to me means an actual shower.

Every second day. The water here is so hard, and my skin is so dry that I look amazingly papery if I shower every day.

I only wash my hair once every three days. It is very dry so I really don't need to do it that often, could get away with 4 days but don't want smelly hair.

I wash/shower or bath every day.

Iloveafullfridge - have you never had what my grandmother termed a 'strip-wash'?
Strip off and a good wash all over with a flannel and a bowl of soapy water basically. When I was a teenager we didn't have a shower, only a bath, and my mother taught me to strip-wash daily in between bath-days (Sundays and Wednesdays!) this was to save time and water I think. Gets you just as clean, honest.
We are regular campers (the username should give a clue) and use campsites with no facilities so knowing how to strip wash is essential.
It really is not necessary to shower three times a day, surely?! Nowadays I shower every other day and have a very long soak in the bath for relaxation on a Sunday evening, with regular washes in between.