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?

Yes every morning unless I am ill. I have curly hair that needs to get wet to re-shape before I face the world.

Unless ill or some other emergency, yes. Once a day. If I can't shower, I'll make sure I have clean hands though as dirty hands and nails irritate me.

Weirdly, it's a full shower or nothing with me: I couldn't do the smelly areas and leave the rest, somehow, the contrast would make me feel worse. And I hate it when the shower attachment can't be taken off the wall to thoroughly give the (deeply) personal areas a good going over.

So every day it is in the shower apart from ill or emergencies, as for those days, well, got to give yourself a bit of a break on those and say sod it if you smell a bit.

No. Every other day or sometimes leave it until the third day. My life is not that dirty.

Every morning without fail, feel grubby if I don't. I normally shower or bath in the evening too although this isn't as essential as my morning one especially at this time of year.

Shower every morning - 3 mins to shower/ soap/ shave legs and arms. 1 min to moisturise after. Don't wash hair in am

Shower in the eve every 2/3 nights and wash hair - 20 mins max to wash, condition and blow dry long hair. Shower every eve in summer/ if Iv been jogging

I do usually because I have to wash my hair every day. If I leave it it's vertical. Not a great look.

Could you put argan oil through and just leave to dry rather than blow drying?

I love my hot evening bath with lots of bubbles and lavender oil. So relaxing and winds me down and prepares me for sleep.

I shower every day, otherwise I smell.

bumpotato your name makes me giggle

I'd never even heard of a 'strip wash' until I came on MN.

As far as I'm concerned stripping your clothes off, getting in the shower and washing yourself is a 'strip wash'.

If you deem yourself unclean enough to require washing, then why would you think moving dead skin cells around your body with a wet cloth would result in you being clean? Am I missing something?

japanese I know just what you mean. Surely hopping in the shower is just as quick. I don't get it either.

Not every day - at the minute it's definitely every weekday, as rehearsals for the uni Christmas production are in full swing and after a 12 hour rehearsal I need a shower to relax as well as to feel clean. I'm another one who doesn't really get sweaty though... in the summer I'll shower every day as warm weather makes me sweat, but in the winter I go every other day unless we're rehearsing for something, because physical exercise doesn't get me sweaty at all.

My hair will frizz uncontrollably if I wash it every day, I don't own a shower cap because the way they feel makes me cringe, and I hate slathering product all over it afterwards - I'd much rather just give it a wash with shampoo and conditioner every other day, so much more manageable.

Before I got pregnant, it was always two showers a day on my period, hate feeling sticky and gross, but in the same vein I like to get a couple of days wear out of clothes (not sweating helps with that), especially jamas, and I'd hate to have a shower and get into dirty pyjamas.

There's seven of us living in my student house right now, and if we all showered every day - with the length of time some of them spend in the shower although OH is the worst for this - our water bills would shoot through the roof! Every other day works quite nicely (and my feet are cheesy even right after a good scrub - naturally cheesy feet, but only if you get close enough for a sniff, which is just plain weird ).

Every other day unless I've been to the gym or done something to make me dirty.

I shower if I'm leaving the house. If not I may or may not shower depending on how I feel.

I don't see anything wrong with a strip wash.

I'm interested to know how those of you who think a strip wash is "moving dead skin cells around with a cloth" clean your kitchen work surfaces? Surely by your logic you are just moving mouldy food particles around with a cloth? Or do you shower your kitchen?

Well, for a start, my kitchen surfaces don't sweat, nor shed skin cells.

They also don't have hair to trap things. Lastly, since they're non-porous, I can literally sweep crumbs and dirt off their surface to be rinsed away. They don't need sluicing, in the manner of a human in a shower, to be properly clean.

It's all pretty efficient, really.

The other thing for me is time. I run a small business and also have a second part time job, and I am a single parent with dts who are eight, right, so that's a huuuge hunk of life taken up there. Dp and I don't live together, so it's everyman for himself re housework, ie mine is all mine and his is all his (although we try to help each other out in a pinch). More time gone. I have a tiny flat with one bedroom spare, that I rent out to foreign students. They generally bathe everyday, and the dcs bathe daily cos they are dirty and smelly most days due to eating like chimps and running about like, well, chimpy boy humans. This affects availability of said bath room. Doing the umpteen billion things required daily, just to keep head above water an' all that, takes me to around 9pm. The entire bathing shenanigan for me takes best part of an hour. Some of that is the preparing of the bath, which I can obviously multi-task during, but the aftercare is the dealbreaker. Moisturise all over. Stand and shiver while it soaks in. Then the whole athletes foot prevention routine, inc powders, and regarless of whether or not I bathe, I do have to clean my teeth thoroughly with dental sticks. All that takes me promptly to about eleven pm, and I want some time to watch tv, mn or even chat to dp . If we are gonna dtd then bath defo, but couldn't manage it daily

To me a 'strip wash' (seriously, just 'strip' off and 'wash' yourself in the shower! ) is only something you'd do if you were posted to the Royal Artillary in Burma in the dying days of WWII, and didn't have indoor plumbing and hot running water.

There is showering and showering.

I daily shower - it involves bringing the spray head to shoulder height and i wash myself with gel. This takes 2 mins max. I hair wash, usually twice a week in the shower - that puts shower time upto 4 mins.

I deep bath and relax weekly - this is my 40 mins of shaving bliss.

However DH and sons seem to manage a 40 min shower every day.

But they do have like actually manky stuff on, like bits of raw chicken. I rarely feel the need to bleach my pits.

Shower daily,sometimes twice daily.morning and bedtime