To ask how often do you shower?

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I was talking to a friend about hygiene etc an she seemed horrified that I only shower every other day.

She said that she showers morning and night every day. I don't even have time for that! Or enough bathrooms!! The kids get bathed in the nights that I don't shower and DP showers every night. I find that if I shower every single day, I get dry skin, same with the kids too. So am I really as scruffy, dirty and unhygienic as I now feel?

Unless you get very hot and sweaty/go to the gym/exercise a lot I think that twice a day is a little OTT. I shower every day.

Every other day once read that its not good for the skin if more frequent.

Every morning as it wakes me up and i'd be zombie without it but I only wash my hair once a week usually (twice at the moment as i'm pregnant and its greasier than usual)
Twice a day seems excessive unless you are exercising or doing something messy.

Shower in morning
Soak in bath at night.

Once a day, twice if I've been excercising.

I shower every morning and have a bath every evening. I enjoy a bath before bed andit helps me sleep. I would hate to go to work without showering in the morning. I have very greasy skin and hair so I would be disgusting if I only showered every other day!

Once a day (twice if I have been to the gym) or sometimes a shower in the morning and a bath in the evening.

I shower every morning, dh showers every day when he gets home from work (showers in the morning on days off), 14yo Ds showers every morning, 11yo dd showers every 2 days, 8yo dd showers every 2-3 days and 15mo dd has a bath every night as she invariably smears her tea into her hair.

Every morning plus after any exercise classes (so twice on those days)

Like your friend I'm a morning and night on a daily basis person. Intimate parts need to be clean and fresh else I wouldn't feel comfortable. DH is the same which is a good thing because I couldn't bear anyone laying their stanking arse next to me at night. Re: the dry skin - moisturise!

Every other day here too. I have very dry skin and hair and even thta's a bit much tbh. Do the crevicey bits as and when in betwen

Every other day - my skin gets really dry and my hair looks awful if I shower every day.

It's perfectly fine, I'm clean and fresh, my clothes get changed. Can't see the problem at all.

Never, we don't have a shower in our bathroom.

I used to be every other day.
Then I got menopausal, now it is every day with the odd extra bath thrown in. For a little while before going on HRT it was about every four days. I would rather have curled up in the corner of the bathroom and cried, than get cold, wet and naked.

Once a day is fine for me unless in exceptional circumstances (like being on holiday in very hot weather). I do need to shower every day, though, even if ill.

I have a wash in the morning as I don't have a shower and a bath at night.

My skin is lovely and soft.

Dc both have eczema and dry skin problems, having a short 10 minute bath everynight has helped their eczema enormously and what the Dr suggested.

I wouldnt smell if I didn't have a bath everyday as I'm not a sweaty sort of person but I wouldn't feel clean. I didn't realise until MN that some people don't get clean everyday.

Shower in morning and bath at night.

My skin is a fucking disaster of sensitive/itchiness etc so the less the better. The more intimate areas get done all the time.

I have v frizzy hair so that gets done as little as possible, so more than once a week = total disaster.

These threads never end well.

I shower every morning. It actually keeps me sane to have that cleansing routine to start my day. My DC are bathed almost every night. If i could do every night i would. I dont really care what other people do as long as they dont live with me.

Everyone is different.

I have a bath every night. I do pong if I don't but I'm an oily-skinned type.

Daily if I'm working or going out. If I'm planning on staying at home all day I would normally skip the shower and have a nice long bath in the evening.

showerng twice a day seems excessive to me...and would dry my skin out horribly.
If it seems like a competitive statement just tell her you don't need to shower as much as her because you don't smell as bad as her.

This has made for an interesting read! My OH thinks I'm odd grubby for not showering daily. He does, but he's a smelly man! Physical job and stuff. I sit in an office 3 days a week. And don't smell! If I go to the gym, I shower as soon as I'm home.

I think daily (& definitely twice daily) is a tad excessive

"and my hair looks awful if I shower every day."

That's why shower caps were invented . My hair would look like straw if I washed it every day, so I wear a shower cap on non hair wash days. I can also remove the shower head from the wall and aim it everywhere except my head.

I have really greasy hair so could really do with it washed every day. However, I have a chronic pain condition so rarely manage to shower more than every second day, often only after 3 or 4 days if I don't /need/ to go out.