to think it wrong not to wash everyday?

[happyclappy]

I went to see my GP yesterday, I have some eczema on my legs and the usual creams are not doing the trick. he asked if I wash/ take a shower everyday, I said of corse, and he advised me to keep it to once a week! AIBU? instead of prescribing me some steroid cream which will ease the itching enough, so i can control it with moisturiser, he gives me useless advise which I'm not going to follow.
but seriously who would only wash their body onlt once a week?

I could not leave the house if I had not showered in the morning first. I would feel smelly and unkempt.

Have no idea about the exczema thing as I do not suffer from it, however in my world I think it is normal to bath/shower every day.

I don't know shambles - I just think of sitting in a tub of water with my dead skin, and bits of muck floating around me can't really be much worse than using a sink to wash the key areas daily

Agree LeQueen. Not sure it's as pleasant as stalew biscuits though!

lol at stale biscuits.

Agree, actually. I think people are kidding themselves that they don't smell a bit whiffy.

Also people who don't wash their hair enough. Note: do not inspect too closely people stood in front of you in the queue at the petrol station or whatever.

Takes 5-10 minutes a day to wash.

I shower or bathe every other weekday after I've been to the gym. On the other days I'm at home doing extremely un-exerting activities like reading with DD2 or folding laundry, and I do not shower unless I want one. I somehow manage to not inspire revulsion in those around me on those days.
Believe me, I know what unwashed smells like- I worked in the cheapest pub in town for six years. Old single men all have the same 'unwashed' smell about them (not widowers or ex military men though!)

'Nope - didn't think so - so in the same way pits and bits can be cleaned using the sink.'

Sinks can hold water, but not you. So what do you do, hang your bits over the sink?

And feet. Dangle your feet over the sink? You'd need to a be a contorsionist to do that.

Faster just to have a quick shower, IMO.

My mum used to work in a bar, she was weraing flip flops at work one evening and got beer spilled on her feet.

She couldn't be bothered to get in the shower, so stuck her feet in the bathroom sink to wash, with one foot stuck in the sink she lost her balance, tipped over and banged her head against the toilet, knocking a tooth out.

Would have been quicker and safer to shower.

Exactly, GetOrf.

I'm in and out in no time, including washing hair.

I do think people who bath once a week (god, that is so revolting!) are deluding themselves thinking they're having a good wash and they don't whiff.

And hair.

GAG. The smell of unwashed hair makes me heave.

Unwashed clothes, too. Eeeew. When I worked at a university I used to use a LUSH bubble bar slice as an air freshner.

My boss pointed out that whilst some students ponged (and smelled like breweries and stale fags) others smelled of unwashed clothes.

She was right.

Yuk.

My stepson in his student days was one of the great unwashed.

I used to nag nag nag him to wash every day. And clean his teeth. And flush the loo. I love him to bits but he was a dirty little scroat. Repeated nagging ground him down educated him in the end.

I am not OCD or a nutcase hygiene obsessive but I just think in this day and age it is normal to wash every day. Yes, I was raised by someone who thought weekly baths were a luxury, and putting the water heater on for a bath was a dire extravagace, but sod holding up that as an ideal state of living.

I remember in the floods of 2007 when all the water was cut off in Cheltenham for 2 weeks, we had to have strip washes with boiled bottled water. It was bloody vile. It does not get you clean.

oh course I'm totally deluded and stupid, silly me, you can't possibly get clean any other way than having a shower or bath

For the past week I have been showering daily - sometimes twice a day if I have been to the gym/swimming - but using only water for washing both hair and body. I still use soap for hand washing I also haven't used any deodorant at all. I used to use a crystal stick thing.
It's been amazing how much clearer both the spots that I have always had on my back, and the excema that plagues my shins has become in such a short time of strict no-product washing.
I was concerned that pits and fanjo area would not be clean enough with just water but all smells fine with just water. In fact fanjo has a much nicer smell now that I am not using soap.
I am doing this as an experiment and will certainly still jump in the shower for a good all over body job every day, but I really don't miss the chemical smells on my skin.
When dh uses his dedorant I have to leave the room. The smell seems so much more overpowering to me than it did just a week ago.
My hair is also very soft and much more manageable.

Happyclappy - I saw this thread on the wright stuff too

I don't think the thread was about the rights and wrongs of showering daily, more that not doing so can help if one suffers from excema. When mine flairs up (not so regularly now thank god) I have to tone down soaking it.

Dirty hair? Yuck, you can just tell. I only wash my hair every other day as otherwise it just dries up or turns into a load of fly-away fluff, but I certainly wouldn't go longer than that. Besides, my hairdresser reliably informs me that washing hair every day can be bad for it and is unnecessary. Fine if it can handle it but mine can't.

I have a friend the same age as me (29), she and her husband don't brush their teeth. To me, this is the most revolting, she never washes her face/removes make-up before bed either. Very weird, I thought teeth brushing was just somehting most people were brought up with.

eeeewww at not brushing teeth, by the end of the day they just feel scummy and need a good brush, what are these people thinking of?
well I lasted 2 and a half days without washing, I'm just about to pop in the bath as my back has gone, and needs a good soak. and my hair is looking bad. I just must be made to shower/bath at least once a day and I can't change that will try different creams on my eczema.

You could try alternating days? Perhaps that slight change might help.

And yes, eeew to not brushing teeth. There is nothing more satisfying that scrubbing away the dirt and scum of the day with a good brush and wash!

Can you imagine how often your GP bathes or showers, happy? Eeewww.

Go back and tell him your line manager told you you smelled, so the once a week tosh isnt' going to work and cough up the cream.

Or see another GP. I wouldn't trust one so old-fashioned he found this sort of 1970s advice helpful.

My DDs excema improved massively when I stopped bathing her every day

My mum is very fastidious about her appearance and her person and she only bathes a couple of times a week.

Actually the suggestion that people who don't bathe or shower every day smell is pretty offensive and a sad sign that the advertising industry has done a fine job in convincing otherwise rational people that their own bodies are offensive.

Anyone who has not the wit to perform something as simple as washing thoproughly without needing a bath or shower has more problems than a bit of deodorant could possibly rectify.

what got me was he was a young good looking chap, I felt a bit at showing him my scabby legs.

You should have just thought of his smegma-encrusted glans penis he's probably got from not washing and that would have rid you of all embarrassment.

Don't brush their teeth?? Their breath must be evil that's so nasty

I think the whole point of showering everyday, is so we don't have to rely on deodorants covering up the smell for a short period. deodorants are not soap and only mask the bacteria festering in your pits

heaving @ smegma encrusted, thats going to haunt me tonight, inagine giving that a blow job!