public showers

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Got into a debate recently with a friend over the showers at our local gym. We go to the gym together a lot of the time and both always shower after.

Given the prices of everything going up, the cost of living being more expensive, and the fact that the gym membership itself isn't cheap, every time I go I take full advantage of the 'free' hot shower. I always take shampoo, conditioner, body wash, a razor, face scrub/wash and generally everything I use in a shower as if I were at home.

I do not wash my hair every day at home, I save that for when I use the gym showers roughly 3x a week. And yes I shower daily but only wash my body , in my shower at home for 5 minutes max. And yes DH and DC all shower normally at home, I just thought saving water where we can is smart.

Friend saw my razor and was mortified that I shave in the public showers. I don't personally think it's dirty and I don't mind the thought of someone else also shaving in them. I'm only talking legs and armpits, no pubic hair as I get a wax, maybe that's tmi, but I think if I didn't get a wax then maybe I would do my pubic hairs as well??

Friend just made me feel really dirty and unhygienic and I wanted others opinions on it?? I didn't realise it was so disgusting

It's not really a 'booya' moment if you have to be so specific about the gym that you basically confirm what I said - the large majority don't have those facilities.

I need to get my husband to speak to these men. Our bathroom gets absolutely covered in hair every time he shaves - god knows what goes on in there when he gets that razor out...

Shaving in a public shower is not OK. There's a sign up in my gym telling people not to do this

If everyone stopped shaving in the public showers I wouldn't be able to produce my Voodoo Dolls so easily. I would have to rely on nail clippings and they are much harder to find and even more difficult to incorporate into an effigy.

So that would be my career down the plug hole too.

Yes I’m wondering when those saying it’s gross because you could cut yourself are going to answer this?

I was in the gym one time and there was a lady working out with a beanie hat on her head. I didn't think much of it until I went for a shower after and saw her rinsing hair dye off her head!
Communal shower with curtains so all the dye was running all over the floor.
Thank god for flip flops.
I thought she was bleeding to death or something at first!
She must have applied it prior to working out, hence the hat. She had one of those disposable shower caps on underneath it, which I spotted in the bin.

Oh man . I'm with your friend on this. It's bad form

I am surprised shaving is accepted at the gym concerned and not prohibited.

I understand the wish to save money, but is it penny wise pound foolish? Get rid of the car first perhaps, or have a very small engined one, for example.

Why is body hair grosser than head hair

It isn't, but I wouldn't agree with someone shaving their head or cutting their hair in a public shower either.

I would be disgusted to see someone shaving in a public shower.

LOLing at people telling me to get rid of my car or cancel my gym membership

Missing the point of the thread completely, I didn't ask for money saving tips

I think it's fine. If you don't tell anyone about it, no one will be able to tell that you do it - because it doesn't leave anything behind that isn't already left by showering anyway.

I'm sure someone will reply that women should not swim when having periods. They should isolate themselves on the red tent until they are no longer unclean🙄

My health club provides towels, body wash, shampoo and conditioner. I think that means they expect users to want a full shower. The showers are in cubicles, so I would neither know nor care if someone was shaving while showering. They ladies changing room also has a very convenient spin dryer for swim suits, which I am sure would disgust the good women of mumsnet!

We had public showers at uni, I'm sure shaving wasn't the worst thing people did in them!

Shaving does seem gross, but no more so than peeing in the shower and I don’t really have much of an issue with that.

It makes me ill to think about it but I think it’s better than when I find long head hairs all over the stall. Grossed me out. Public showers gross me out anyway but long hairs really disgust me.

I think it’s gross because it’s pretty impossible to wash all the hair away. I hate it at the gym when there is hair on the floor, let alone body hair. Washing/conditioning your hair on the other hand is totally acceptable. Any decent gym will provide shampoo and conditioner.