How often do you bathe ?

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Sat on a night out with the girls discussing personal hygiene..... I wash twice a week. Some are saying this is too much , some too little ?! Thoughts please ?
New poster, this is light hearted.

shower every morning, if ive been exerising then a shower at night and shower at night when i have my period
i go through stages of having a bath at night a couple times a week as well

NameChange I like your question. OP has lots to go on now, so what's next?

I’m on a professional course one day a week, and was just saying to my husband that I don’t understand why almost every single one of them stinks! Now only just becoming aware that some people don’t think you need to shower every day - WTF?! I dread getting paired up with a stinker, and you can tell it’s old BO and not anything else, we start at 9am so it’s not like they’ve been doing some kind of sport all day. Please, everyone who thinks you don’t need to wash and that you don’t smell - please think of your colleagues!!! At lunch time I literally take huge deep breaths by a main road as it’s preferable to the smell of other people’s bodies

No, I rinse the flannel and then rinse myself afterwards. You don’t refill the bath over again, do you? Same thing really.

I wash my hair in the bath, so that makes it 2 baths in 3 days generally.

No, I rinse the flannel and then rinse myself afterwards. You don’t refill the bath over again, do you? Same thing really.

But you rinse it in dirty water! I don’t have baths, for that very reason.

I guess people just don’t smell it themselves when they smell. Like smelly hair. I can always smell someone’s unwashed hair when stood a normal distance away (as opposed to being brushed up against them.)

I shower every day—before going to work. Twice on Mondays and Fridays (evening gym class); three times on a Wednesday (two separate gym classes at two separate gyms).

I don't leave the house without showering. Ever

Unwashed hair gives me the boak.

Anyway, where is OP? Coo ee! Come and tell us your further thoughts.

Twice a week is fine for kids pre-puberty but post-nappies. I would be surprised if a grown up doesn't smell with so little washing.

Every other day I bath or sometimes it can be every day if I’m in work

But then i can’t stand the thought of smelling or not feeling clean

Sorry meant shower not bath not a massive fan on baths don’t stay in them long enough to warrant running one 😂

I have a shower every day as does dh.

However I work with someone who washes FAR less frequently and you can most definitely tell. Most days I can smell her hair across the room and it is visibly in need of a wash despite being tied up neatly (it looks oily at the roots and often has dandruff showing), her fingers nails are unkempt and often grubby and she regularly smells stale (cooking / unwashed etc) and worse, some days she reeks of BO depending on what fabric top she is wearing (unfortunately she favours synthetic materials)

The thing is she is young, married and has young children, so I am assuming (though I can't say for sure) that her family have not said it to her - the way people on here claim it would happen

Being around her has made me extra aware of how easy it is to slip into very bad habits and how unpleasant it is for everyone else around her.

Would cheerfully admit only once every 2/3 days at present! I have to move a distance in one week/two weeks (completion date not set), hence cannot get back to work fulltime as cannot commit. I'm far away from my friends.

When I do I take a shower first, then run a bath and slap on loads of masks, shave, trim nails etc, then after soaking for 20 minutes take another shower to wash off residue.

I emerge rejuvenated. My last boyfriend (who washes daily) complained that I made him feel dirty after I did this.

So I guess I'm a slob for a day

I can’t imagine washing my fanny twice a week. You mustn’t get much action OP. I know I certainly wouldn’t.

I can miss one day tops but no more than that. It takes minutes to have a shower.

Is this an attempt to get people to reveal their bathing habits?!

Ok I’m in! I take thrice-daily bathes. Once in the morning in unicorn-tears enriched water using a loofah. Lunch is followed by a dip in the Red Sea. Finally in the evening I shower using Sanex and a Toy Story themed flannel.

I wash my hair once a year on the queen’s birthday.

Every other Christmas... grin you might be over doing it!

I know. I might give it a miss this Christmas even though I was due a shower .

Sorry but this thread looks like a wind up to me.

Once in the morning in unicorn-tears enriched water using a loofah. Lunch is followed by a dip in the Red Sea. Finally in the evening I shower using Sanex and a Toy Story themed flannel.

Now I'm jealous. I tried to get unicorn-tears (for my every other Christmas bath) but everywhere was sold out. Dammit!

I genuinely don't understand the idea of a strip wash? Surely it's more hassle than a shower, how do you rinse without getting water all over the floor? So many questions!

I shower and wash/condition hair every morning and have a bath a few evenings per week. The bath is more for enjoyment, the showers are obviously to get clean and wash my hair. Can't understand anyone who feels okay leaving the house without a full shower and hair wash each day. I'd feel so filthy!

A strip wash is a useful thing to learn.
When I was growing up we were very poor, no shower, baths were once a week affair as we simply couldn't afford the coal to heat up hot water every day.
We were taught- as were many of my cousins how to do a strip wash in a sink, with a flannel. soap and a small sink of water while not getting the bathroom floor wet.
Working from the face down, armpits, groin and feet if you were supple enough, washing then drying as you went.

I still sometimes have a strip wash.

I don’t think they’d be particularly useful for me to learn. I’d rather just jump in the shower. And if I couldn’t do that for any reason, I imagine I could figure out how to wash myself.

Now I'm jealous. I tried to get unicorn-tears (for my every other Christmas bath) but everywhere was sold out. Dammit!

I get mine off eBay. £69.99 for 250ml. They do last a whole week though so pretty good value. My silly husband questioned how genuine they were - perhaps, he suggested, they were merely tears from a griffin or Minotaur - but the seller has 100% positive feedback so I told him to wind his neck in!

Agree a strip wash is a PITA - easier to shower!!

What's a strip wash...?

Lemon I know what you mean, and I'd wash everyday if I worked full time, but I'm stuck in the countryside with no-one to see me except for the farm shop, soldiers from the base and elderly neighbours.

Routine is thorough wash every 2/3 days, don't generally care what I wear

So I even feel happy nipping to the shop with sheep socks pulled up to the knee and ballet shoes.

I have a shower every morning.i know i will sound judgemental but I'm my opinion its disgusting to not wash every day. I dont understand how people do it. I would feel so grubby. I thankfully have never had thrush or bv

Shower twice a day in the morning & as soon as I come home I like to wash the day off me. If I go to the gym in the evening il have another one but I only wash my hair every second day. I usually have a 30 second shower each time the morning one is really just quickly doing my face under arms & gentials just to freshen up and wake up.