To wonder if anyone else will admit to being a soap dodger?

[blueberrycoconut]

I often can’t be arsed. Dh has to prompt me. Anyone else?

I look a lot younger than my age (I'm sometimes mistaken for my older sister's dd, who is 8 years older). I put it down to showering every 2nd or 3rd day (except in heatwaves).

All the daily showerers are stripping oils from their skin everyday, contributing to skin ageing.

@ElspethFlashman don't forget competitive Bedding changing!

Im sure people can afford a couple of minutes of water, and as for having nowhere to put children while they wash, they can actually wait until children are asleep, or at school.

I still find it odd that some people wash 4 times a week in this day & age but will still spray themseves with perfume/deodrant inbetween.

A half kettle full of water & a flannel to wash daily at the least to those who dont have access to showers, surely people dont leave the house without having washed their face for days?

I'm 38. I went to a convention recently and everyone I told how old I was looked shocked and told me they thought I was only in my late 20's.

But then I don't put soap anywhere near my face even when I do shower, I only use wipes or micellar water and cotton pads. (I have sensitive skin, even dove soap dries me out >.< )

Oh yes, and competitive pyjama changing to go along with it.

"I go through 7 pairs of pyjamas a week. Everyone in my house does. I wash 48 pairs a week. Anything less is rank, frankly"

StorminaTCut - surely people dont leave the house without having washed their face for days?
But they do - too many sleep crusty faces rocking about; however, I'm sure all their nethers are nipping clean.
Just asked DH if I have OCD cleanliness ishoos - he said no.

Notice to the great unwashed mumsnet mingers Your skin will not fall of if you wash it.

You can sleep in a bed that is changed weekly, you could even wash yourself before you get in it

There is nothing remotely obssesive about basic hygeine.

Please dont tell me you 'febreze'

Amusing that you mention MN batch cooking because not only is my hair still wet from the shower I have been batch cooking all day.

Amazing how quickly it goes from ‘everyone must shower daily, anything else is frankly disgusting’ type comments to ‘half a kettle full of water and a flannel’ but at least it’s an effort to step outside the middle class mindset, so that’s a good thing I suppose.

There are many reasons why care of children can prevent showering. It really isn’t as simple as waiting until they are at school (5 years?) or asleep, in many situations. That is especially true when you add in all the above factors....the bathroom you have not being suitable or available or safe to use, having to leave your DC in a place where they might not be safe unless under your direct supervision, even when sleeping, or having to leave them in the proximity of someone you do not trust. How happy would you be to leave even sleeping dc alone in a room in a hostel or HMO to go to another floor for a shower?

I shower every day, always have done. I'm nearly 70, have a very firm skin and very few lines on my face. I'm always being told I look nowhere near my age, which I've always put down to my genes as everyone else in my family is the same.

I would think not removing the grime and pollution from your face on a regular basis is more likely to age the skin than washing it.

So these people that cant find anywhere safe to wash, brush their teeth & wash hands, cant have access to water to cook with?

Take child to bathroom, carry flask of water back to your room, put water in bowl - wash.

ChanklyBore I do hear you and in those circumstances you are completely correct and as many of us have mentioned before also MH/medical issues are different kettle of fish altogether.

The people I know who are not clean are on the whole solvent professionals - not necessarily middle class but educated enough to know that hygiene is important. They don't give a toss though.

I shower every day because I like to feel fresh. Growing up we had a bath once a week, as did lots of kids....but when I was in my teens I bathed more often which caused rows with my dad because heating the water was expensive.
Now I can shower every day....so I do.

My crackers sister used to Febreze her kids. They are late teens now and spend every waking hour in the shower.

Fanny batter 🤢

Get in the shower minky

There are some pretty unpleasant people on here and I am not talking about the great unwashed.

Some of this is unspeakable.

‘these people’

Most people will wash. But if you read through the thread there are multiple examples of people saying that not showering every day or two times a day is gross, minging, that they couldn’t have a relationship with someone like that, that they could not send their kids to school if they hadn’t bathed them daily.

It is possible to be clean without a shower. And it is OK if showers aren’t your A1 priority sometimes. It is ridiculous to hold everyone up to an arbitrary number of showers per hours and say that that is the only way to be and anyone who does not do so has no self respect, is stinky, dirty, minging and should not go to school, work, near other people or use bloody public transport. (All things said or implied here).

That’s my point.

I do not get into bed at night until I have had a relaxing and cleansing bath.

OH is the same.

That's disgusting imo.

TMI but my dh once asked me not to wash down there before sex. Apparently I taste lovely as I am, soap tastes disgusting :-D haha but of course I’m clean, just not soapy clean. It’s not good for your bits!

I only wash my fanjo with shower water, bum is done with a touch of soap, pits and feet are scrubbed within an inch of their lives with L'Occitane milk soap and I Eve Lom my face so would never use soap there.

Not washing your hands after going to the loo is bloody inconsiderate and can spread germs and infections. Particularly if you then prepare food for other people.

Everyone in the 80s must have been depressed because it was the norm to bath once a week, no more.

I don’t remember BO being a huge problem!

It absolutely wasn't. I've had a bath/shower every day all my life and my parents did too. I was born in 1953.