To reduce the number of showers I have each week

[Lov]

Let's be honest here. During lockdown probably most of us that worked from home rolled out of bed to their laptop and started the work day (in pjs)

I believe my need for showers daily took a nose dive. Don't get me wrong I went old school and did a daily clean with a flannel and yes still brush my teeth twice a day. I was showering twice a week.

Now back into the swing of things, working face to face (twice a week) I find my routine has stayed the same and the need for daily showers has gone. Obviously if I go work out I will do but I'm talking daily no.

What's other people's experience? Has everyone resumed normal life or are there people out there like me who are now content doing a flannel wash instead of a daily shower????

I am waiting for the gross comments but honestly I don't feel worse for it and my water bill has dropped!

Well given they're a fraction of the size of a bath towel I doubt its particularly arduous by comparison.

Flannel is pain in ass.

shower when you need to - unless you are doing something that makes you sweaty, there is no need for a daily shower

Shower before I go to work ( NHS ICU ) and shower when I come off shift.

It will never not rattle me to my core how particular demographics are so casual about showering and general hygiene. They almost always make a sport of how filthy they can get.

What demographics are they then?

Which demographics do this?

Thanks, that makes sense. Especially for people who can't jump in the shower. I am now wondering what the 1970s smelled like, with my one bath a week, 4th to use the water and a flannel wash when forced. I don't recall everyone smelling?

A flannel wash is much more time and effort than a shower.

I would feel awfully dirty if I just flannel washed most of the time and had 2 showers a week.

Thrifty note: typical shower is around 9kW, typical low energy light bulb say 9W. That's 1000x times as much energy. You're wasting your time switching off unused light bulbs if you're dawdling in the shower.

Ten minutes a day is around £150 per year - www.sust-it.net/electric-showers.php

I can wash in the sink days I am wfh. I still scrub every inch of my body though

Every other day, skin is too dry for daily. Hair def. needs washing every 2 days. Invariably a ‘bits’ wash in between. Only exceptions would be if I’d got very hot and sweaty, which I certainly have in very hot/humid climates abroad - where humidity is the real thing - not what people in the U.K. like to moan about in summer.

2-3 times a week. I don't sweat very much and also don't exercise often. I can tell when I smell and when I don't. I'm rarely smelly in the winter, it's usually only on hot sticky days. DH also always tells me when he can smell me even a little bit, and it's rare. My mum is also brutally honest with this type of thing.

I have a little sitz bath type thing that I use daily - I started doing that due to a procedure I had down there years ago, and never gave up the habit. It makes me feel fresh! Armpits get a flannel wash in the morning.

If my hoo ha and arm pits and clean then I don't really see which other parts of you could have a smell? Aside from feet I suppose, but I don't have smelly feet (DH on the other hand...)

Meh, I haven’t showered or washed my hair for 8 days now thanks to crippling sciatica (even sitting on the loo is a challenge) and DH working away till yesterday.
I have used wipes instead and I’m perfectly clean and stink-free, my hair is a bit wild but so what.

On days when I am up and at em from the morning (whether going out or WFH), a shower is part of my wake up
routine. As essential as coffee.

But if my morning can be a bit slower then no.

Although I personally feel minging if I go over two days without.

I shower daily because I genuinely smell if I don't.

I think showering daily (or more) is a bit yuck because of what it does to your skin. Showering 2-3x a week is a happy medium between not smelling and not killing your microbiome.

It is very cool in our flat and I have dry skin so I don't have a bath every day.
I've saved four hundred pounds this year on water bill.

Shower twice daily sometimes I have a third shower if I’m working out mid day. I also sometimes swap my evening shower for a bath. I also wash my hair daily as can’t stand the feeling of being unclean.
Those that don’t shower as a minimum in the morning do you not feel grimy and dirty?

It does nothing to your skin. Even in countries without the resources we have, they use a bucket of water to wash every day, it's very much the norm.

People with dry skin use moisturiser. My dc is less dry washing daily with cream. Unless you have eczema, what is actually going to happen? Do people not wash their face daily, you just leave last weeks makeup and sun cream on for 3-4 days in a row- or do you use mousturiser?

You don't have to wash every day, but this not a real reason... nothing happens. Use cooler lukewarm water, use a bar of soap rather than scrubber, pat dry.

I shower daily, and always without fail Mon-Fri, when I'm in the office.
I wash my hair every second day, and this is a recent thing as I always just washed it in the shower but it was really stripping out my hair dye colour so along with a new length I can now go every second day.

Sometimes if I am having a lazy Saturday I might not have a shower but more often than not, I think I won't have one, mooch about the house / garden all day and then in the evening I give in and have a quick shower and fresh pjs etc for bed.

I think more people need to shower more frequently!

I can't imagine using flannels to wash in a sink unless there was some sort of emergency that prevented me from showering. I rarely dawdle in the shower either, I am in and out in minutes and feel amazing after it

No. Because I'm not grimy or dirty

Washing too often kills good bacteria on your skin, so disrupts the balance. It also removes the natural oils that protect your skin (and hair - I’d hate to see the hair of the poster showering 3x a day). Dermatologists advise showering every other day rather than every day for these reasons.
I splash my face with cold water in the sink, you don’t need to shower for that. In fact I don’t put my face under the shower at all because it makes me blotchy.

Exactly. I think many people are kidding themselves.

Kidding themselves in what way exactly? Knowing if they need a shower?