How often should I shower?

[grosstonotshower]

Ok so I'm having a few drinks with friends last night. We are all female a mix of parents and non parents. One friend mentions she is struggling to find time for o shower every day since she had her baby. I said "well I don't shower every day without a young baby," All of my friends looked at me in horror. Apparently even the ones with kids shower daily. Full disclosure I have two dd one under five and I work part time. I shower on work days plus one extra day so usually three times a week my days off usually consist of playing at home, walking dog, school run and maybe park. I would shower extra if exercising/having sex/on period etc. I bath my dc three times a week. My oh works out every week day so he does shower more than me. AIBD? (Disgusting 😂)

Worked that time though!

@Arabellla the Sun readers don't know what a shower is ?😂

*You get hot water, wring your flannel out in it, lather up some soap, wash bum
Rinse and Wring flannel out again in hot water and wipe off soap, repeat as needed. Towel dry

Or sit on the toilet, soap up and rinse with a bidet bottle or jug

I'm honestly amazed people don't know this, I wasn't taught how to wash people when caring, you just do it!!*

What a palaver - flannels, bowls ,toilets, mats to stand on , flannels to wash every day !🤔

@IamGusFring

*You get hot water, wring your flannel out in it, lather up some soap, wash bum Rinse and Wring flannel out again in hot water and wipe off soap, repeat as needed. Towel dry

Or sit on the toilet, soap up and rinse with a bidet bottle or jug

I'm honestly amazed people don't know this, I wasn't taught how to wash people when caring, you just do it!!*

What a palaver - flannels, bowls ,toilets, mats to stand on , flannels to wash every day !🤔

It is what it is, if you are unable to shower!! I'm sure most people would rather hop in a shower but some people haven't been able to for 10/15/20 years which is why they have carers and people to help That's what the flannel washing was referring to as not everyone is able to shower or bath

At one point I didn't have a shower for nine months and had to sink wash. I had spinal surgery and wore a plastercast from my neck to bottom. Still washed twice a day.

For the first time ever I timed my shower 😂 - with shampoo and conditioner 3 mins.

@IamGusFring

For the first time ever I timed my shower 😂 - with shampoo and conditioner 3 mins.

I've just done the same!! 🤣But because I have difficulties it's a lot longer. And this does include my hair being brushed It was 19 minutes. It did take me about 5 to get in and 5 to get out 🙈

Depends on what your lifestyle is like - pre- covid I would have said shower every day, but since then, with wfh Etc. I shower about 4 - 5 times a week. If I’m going out to see people, obviously I’ll shower, but lack of socialisation means I don’t need to! I’m not sweaty, so saving the planet is easier when normal living is on hold!

Once a week for me 😆. Where I live, it takes 2/3 hours and €20 to heat the water up.

Yes, once a month for me but I do have to walk to the hot geysers which takes three days. Still, I take a few copies of the Sun with me and the time just flies.

Things are tough here in Milton Keynes.

@Skeumorph

Yes, once a month for me but I do have to walk to the hot geysers which takes three days. Still, I take a few copies of the Sun with me and the time just flies.

Things are tough here in Milton Keynes.

Sounds like they've improved greatly since I was last there. Can't you ride a fibreglass cow?

You can also use the Sun for toilet paper when you get there.

This has been quite a thread. Can’t get my head around the fact that some people would not know how to keep themselves clean without access to a shower. Astronauts on the ISS don’t have showers, wild campers don’t have showers.

Interesting article about personal hygiene in space.

www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/living-in-space/personal-hygiene-in-space.asp

If you like showering every day, fine - I have today as it happens and will do so again as I will go swimming later on - but don’t make out that people who don’t shower every day are skanky and smelly.

@CounsellorTroi

This has been quite a thread. Can’t get my head around the fact that some people would not know how to keep themselves clean without access to a shower. Astronauts on the ISS don’t have showers, wild campers don’t have showers.

Interesting article about personal hygiene in space.

www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/living-in-space/personal-hygiene-in-space.asp

If you like showering every day, fine - I have today as it happens and will do so again as I will go swimming later on - but don’t make out that people who don’t shower every day are skanky and smelly.

I don’t think anybody would be sitting wringing their hands and crying about how wash themselves without a shower.

They’re just confused at the insistence that washing yourself at the sink is so totally easy and much much more comfortable than showering. For most people it won’t be, and that’s been proven in the thread. The one poster who’s described why a strip wash is easier said you stay warm because you don’t have to take your clothes off, it’s just a ‘quick wash of armpits’ and ‘splashing water on the face.’ Well that’s easier because it’s not a proper wash.

The others? Bowls of water, several flannels, washing feet in the sink one at a time, soaping up genitals and bum then sitting on the toilet and rinsing with a jug. I mean it’s actively more work than the thing which is designed to wash all those areas without standing in the bathroom soaping yourself up with various flannels and rinsing off with jugs of water.

And as I’m not an astronaut or a wild camper or a world war 2 evacuee or a dystopian soldier I won’t overly worry about my attachment to showering and lack of excitement about scrubbing myself down at the sink.

I could do it in 3 minutes but I prefer 10 minutes washing, rinsing, enjoying the hot waters, bloody eco shower never allows more than 10 minutes before going cold.
My old banger of a shower was amazing, ran until the tank emptied.

Can’t get my head around the fact that some people would not know how to keep themselves clean without access to a shower.

What are you struggling with?

Of course we know. It's just that it sounds like a crap way of doing it if you don't have to. I asked for details not because the idea of washing at a sink is so incomprehensible but because I was trying to keep an open mind. It seems like such a rubbish way of doing it compared to a shower that I wanted to see if I was missing something. I wasn't.

You can still wash the way you prefer. It's fine. And when the zombie apocalypse hits and we have two inches of water to wash in daily, you'll know what to do and be the only one they won't be able to sniff out.

In summer, I shower every day. In winter, unless I've been for a run or to the gym, it's every other day.

Not read all the replies. I had stress eczema 8 years ago due to a bereavement, when I attended the dermatologist he told me you shouldn't have a bath or shower daily as its not good for our skin. He said always wash intimate areas thoroughly on a daily basis and shower every other day unless you are exercising or excessively dirty. I used to shower in the morning and have a bath in the evening, now I shower or bath every second day unless I'm working in which case I shower and wash my hair daily 🙃

I shower and wash my hair every morning. Sometimes I'll have a shower in the evening too especially in the summer. I can't imagine not doing this. However I know my DSis does not - she probably showers every other day and thinks my routine is excessive... She doesn't smell but I still think its abit grim. I guess if I wasn't going out or to work, it wouldn't be such a necessity - I think I would still do it though

Can’t get my head around the fact that some people would not know how to keep themselves clean without access to a shower.
Of course people know.
If you'd no access to a shower then a sink wash would do, but only if there was no access to the shower.
If a shower is readily available it is much quicker to use one.

Bothers me more that you don’t wash your children every day!

I don't shower daily.

I wash the bits that can smell daily. Wash my hair twice a week.

I don't see how jumping into the shower to wash my legs that have been covered in trousers everyday makes any difference. They don't smell.

I shower 4-7 times a week dependent on actual need.

Clean clothes daily. Clean PJs every night.

@Justheretoaskaquestion91

Bothers me more that you don’t wash your children every day!

We do. We chuck them in the washer-dryer on the eco-cycle and thirty minutes later they pop out sparkling.

(The kids hate it and bang on the glass door as they swizzle around but with the telly turned up to LOUD we don't hear them - so it's all OK.)

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles 🤣
I must try this.