do you shower daily? (be honest!)

[principalitygirl]

obviously if you have a very newborn or you're ill then maybe a might miss a day, but generally speaking do you shower (or bath) every day? I do, but sometimes I might shower in the morning one day but then not shower next until the next evening, if I have a gym session or exercise class planned. I do wear deodorant and clean clothes daily but too many showers irritate my skin and are just a faff. grim, or not grim?

minty

I sort wiffy armpits with wet wipes, dry them then use deodorant.
not worth a shower.

don't have sweaty feet so they are never smelly.

It's definitely a British thing to not shower or bath every day.

Wow! so many replies, despite numerous other similar threads I was hitherto unaware of.

Someone asked why I asked the question - mainly cos quite a few people I know seem to shower lots - more than me - so wanted to see what was more common.

I too have v dry skin and if it's flaring up - prob due in part to overwashing - then showers have to be followed by extensive moisturiser application, even if soap use only limited to essential parts, plus moisturiser sinking in time before dressing - such a palaver! I'm truly envious of you '3 min to shower and dry' folk with your short, quick dry hair too. I wash my hair every 2-3 days as it goes weird if I don't dry it completely with a hairdryer after washing and this takes a while as it's quite thick. I use dry shampoo in between if it needs some oooomph - is the dirty hair smell that some claim able to detect after just a day of not washing hair actually Batiste?! ;)

I for one don't change my pjs daily! am drowning in laundry as is.

V good points made about excess water use though. I hope we all have eco shower heads! I'm on a water meter too so a daily morning shower and a daily evening bath as some report having would really up my usage.

As I no longer commute by sweaty, overcrowded public transport I feel a lot less dirty each day.

Nothing beats a warm bath or shower when you're filthy dirty and cold though. Get dirty first (walk/run/cycle ride through muddy fields in winter) and getting clean feels amazing!!

PeriodFeatures, not sure where you live but if you had to catch the tube every day, two things about hygiene would occur to you.

1. A lot of people clearly do not wash every day.
2. The tube is filthy and you are pretty yuk too by the time you get home. You only have to blow your nose to see the level of grime you've been coated in.

I'm not a hygiene freak & I like to shag something human smelling too - but not tube coated human!!!!

garlic, hair probably does self-clean if you live somewhere clean & you are rigorous about coming out the dead skin cells. However, I've yet to meet anyone who self-cleans their hair, so I can't comment on whether or not it wiffs - but 3 day old hair usually does.

milly

I'm not British

There are a huge amount of chemicals pumped into the water supply, especially late at night. I shower or bath at night to avoid itchy skin caused by these chemicals.

To clear that up I bath about ten but something definitely gets pumped into our water supply about midnight and the smell from the water is awful as is the taste.

Loving this thread.

Many years ago I got thoroughly slated on MN for daring to admit that I didn't bath my children every single day. I tried to explain that routine was 2-3 times a week, but more if they were visibly dirty, as in they'd been out in the garden or done sports and got muddy. This got interpreted as me being an abusive and neglectful mother who waited until my children were stinking, mud coated, snot smeared little horrors. Yes, the words abusive and neglect were used.

And now I find that half the adults here don't wash at least three times a day. Outrageous!

Does fair enough but when I moved to the UK I was amazed that people here didn't bath and did the flannel thing.

Milly, if companies pumped chemicals into the water at night, wouldn't it take a while for it to get to your tap? Doesn't it take a while for the water to be drawn down from the reservoirs or wherever your local water is stored?

At what point in the water collection & filtering process do you think the chemicals are added?

I've just been doing water supply with DD as part of a science project, so I'm curious to know where you think these chemicals get in?

I bath every day as still waiting for the council to fix my shower. It's just as much my relaxation time away from the kids as it is about getting clean

I shower every evening during the week when I have got work. I might leave it for a day at the weekend if I am not going out any where.

I am intrigued by those of you who don't get whiffy armpits, underparts and feet after 24 hours. What race do you come from?

Ah, a racist comment!

I'm white English and my feet and armpits don't smell after 24 hours. As for underparts I have a bidet that I use after visiting the toilet. It's very quick, uses little water and is far cleaner than wiping.

Bloody stinking filthy WC types.

Spray them with hoses.

Did someone say they bathe once a week omg.

Also to pp who said that she doesn't shower daily as she doesn't want dry skin. Have u never heard of creaming your body?

I think thats why white people age faster than black people. Seriously black people have less wrinkles
I think because of the daily moisturising.

What? All black people moisturise daily? Are you sure?

Seriously black people have less wrinkles, I think because of the daily moisturising.

Well, that's a non-sequitur if ever there was one! Does black skin come with a genetic addiction to moisturisers?

You might find that melanin, the brown colouring in skin, exists to protect it from the sun's UV rays. Those rays are what cause visible skin ageing.

also doesn't more/less colour in your skin generally mean more/less oil?

so paler skin = dryer skin
so darker skin = oiler skin

and oil also play a major role in aging?

What, as in ages less or more?

oily skin = age more slowly

my favourite theory is that 'they' pump chemicals into the water supply at night. so it's a bit of a lottery then - untreated water full of bugs and sewage, or bathing in a chemistry experiment.

please, someone explain the logic of this idea?

and anyway, i have a cold bath monthly, whether i need it or not. three inches of water and an old coal sack as a flannel. you lot don't know you're born.

I enjoy showering and do it most days (hair wash every other day). Might not sometimes if not going out. I don't mind having sex if not showered, but oral I'm less keen on.

The thing I find icky here is people going to the gym and having a shower but not washing their hair. That's surely a bit grim?