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?

I don't bleach my pits either.

I don't undertand the point.

Bleach pits?whats that even mean
Oh god is it gross

Shower every morning - it actually wakes me up...rarely have a bath...

mummytomog was continuing the comparison with kitchen work surfaces. She would bleach her kitchen work surfaces, but not her pits. The person washing and kitchen worksurface washing aren't really comparable.

Yes. Even with a newborn. Don't feel on top of things otherwise.

no

Of course they're comparable. Skin is pretty wipe clean. You wash with the cloth rinse the cloth then wipe again. If wiping your kitchen work surfaces with a cloth gets them clean then wiping yourself with a cloth will get you clean in exactly the same way.

I have no idea why people would stand there wiping with a minging flannel when you can stand under nice hot water, apply shower gel to body ,give yourself a good scrub and rinse off.

Exactly.

If a 'strip wash' is so efficient, then why bother showering at all?

I shower every morning before work and before my weekend days. I want to be clean.

Couldnt care less what other people do though.

Every day without fail and even a quick one in the evening too sometimes before getting jammies on.

I rather think that was the point that was being made - mummytomog would need to bleach her kitchen work surfaces after certain uses; she wouldn't need to bleach her armpits for any reason whatsoever that is hygiene-based. Different cleaning for different surface types.

Personally I have no issue with flannel washing; rinse and repeat will work fine.

I shower every day twice a day. Wash hair in the morning, just body in the evening.

It only takes 5 mins and I would feel yucky going to bed without showering.

Yes, every day and also post workout. My mother doesn't, she is very lazy, and her clothes always smell musty. I do not want to be like her, so I have a shower. Not hard.

I would only strip wash if we had no hot water.

occasionally I may do in the morning after having a bath the night before if I am not in work.

Strip wash........yeuch.

Get in the shower, you mingers.

WOW !

Just read the thread and now I understand why women never smell like women anymore...

More like a chemical disaster as deodorant meets perfume meets shower gel meets hair spray meets shampoo meets moisturiser meets body spray meets shower gel meets body scrub meets twice a day everything meets "wipe clean" meets "rinse clean" meets "bleach my pits" meets "cleansing different surface types" meets "Strip wash" meets meets OMG - a clear OBSESSION with cleansing and cleaning !!!!!

What is SO WRONG with just smelling like YOU ?

Have you forgotten that men like the scent of a woman... ?

Destroy the smell of yourself and you become a neuter. You become just another skirt who smells of chemicals. An asexual being in the sensual world. You'll become someone who paid a million quid for products which made you completely invisible to the opposite sex.

Advertising has REALLY worked on you lot. It's convinced you to instantly give up on yourselves before you even got going. Soap and water will keep anyone healthy and clean. All the stuff listed in this thread (or even some of it) - you'll smell like an experiment.

Yeah, because being sexual to men is our raison d'être.

MiniMonty your post has just made me laugh so much, I nearly did a little pee....

You remind me of a guy I used to work with that believed the reason women went to the gym, put make up on and dressed well was so they could impress a man or men. He actually, truly believed this to be the case... He was as deluded as you are in thinking that women keep clean and bath to attract a man.

BUT, thanks for the tit bit of advise. I am sure those single ladies on here will immediately dispose of their perfume, creams, potions and immediately stop bathing so their woman's scent can bag them a man!!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Brilliant, simply comedy genius!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

I admit I like to smell not so much like a "woman" in the biblical sense, but more like creme brulee ( my current bath soap).

Crowler your creme brulee soup sounds divine....where is it from please?

[thcshock]

I like smelling like an experiment.
Where do you get your creme brûlée soap from Crowler ?

Showering every day is all very well but someone up there mentioned musty smelling clothes.

All the showering in the world is pointless if you never launder your clothes properly.

I might only shower every other day to preserve my paper-like skin (and spend bloody ages putting on emollients afterwards) but underwear, vest-tops, socks, t-shirts and any items worn next to the skin are worn once then laundered.