Daily Showering

[whiskeryron]

When I was a child & growing up we were taught to wash face,neck,in & behind the ears & our special little bits, & we would bathe once a week on Friday. Now we have showers fitted my family & I shower daily. I have spoken to people who say that by showering daily one is doing oneself a disservice because one is constantly removing natural oils that keep the skin supple & healthy. What is the opinion of A/Bers ?

WR.

[boxtops]

It's different if you live in warmer climes - when we're on holiday, it's certainly around twice a day.

[sandyRoe]

I always thought smegma was there for a reason. Regular ablutions would wash it away. It's far better, I think, to be slightly smelly as nature intended.

[emmie]

i think the big problem then was the lack of bathing facilities, we didn't get a bathroom and separate indoor loo until we moved to social housing well into the 1960's, before that i remember seeing an old tin bath, or being bathed as a child in the kitchen sink, most unhygienic. Now it's shower every day, i think who ever said that we must have all been a bit pongy, or those who didn't bathe regularly were right, you may not have noticed it so much, all in it together so to speak

[DTCwordfan]

His women have to shower four times a day, khandro.......

[pixie373]

I see many elderly people who only bath or shower once a week, some have a strip-wash on the other days, some don't. My observation is that most people start to get a bit of a smell after 3/4 days.

[NoMercy]

I got in a lift at work the other day with a very overweight young lad who clearly hadn't showered or bathed in a while. The smell was horrendous.

[ferlew]

Chuckling here at Gness "standing in the kitchen sink"... bless ya.

[Cloverjo]

Yuk, NoMercy. I can almost smell him, just from your post.
I don't think it's strictly necessary to shower every day -say if you haven't sweated - but I do because I really don't want to inflict anything on other people.
When my son stayed with a German family on an exchange, the mother found it odd that he wanted to shower ever day and said it was unhealthy.

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah it is OK so long as you dont use soap every day

water in itself shouldnt defat the skin.

Anyway what is the point of looking like a baby's bottom under that beard of yours.

[paddywak]

I shower at least twice a day,after thirty years in mining it's got to be a habit.

[maggiebee]

I have a bath once a year whether I need it or not!

[gness]

No longer, Ferlew...the lovely plumber has got me out of the kitchen sink!..☺

[tonyav]

I'll be round with the loofah later, gness !.

[gness]

And the moisturiser.....☺

[tonyav]

Yep ;-)

[AliFlump]

I shower daily when at work but if im having a lazy weekend ill leave it two days. Only thing is after 24 hours my hair gets greasy and you can tell so id be embarrassed to go out with nasty hair so more often than not its every day.

I remember not having a wash as often when i was a kid tho (in the 80s)

[EDDIE51]

When I was a kid in the 1950s we had a bath once a week on a Saturday night.
Even then we had to take turns being first in the water , there were 3 or us brothers . So if it was your turn to be first in the water on week one you were second in week two and third in week three. The only source of hot water was the back boiler to the living room coal fire or a kettle on the gas stove, so hot water was scarce and a precious resource. My mum thought this was the height of luxury, she had been brought up in a Durham 'pit village' with just a single cold tap in the scullery and no hot water at all unless you boiled the kettle or 'copper' ( a sort of gas powered urn) No bath room just a tin bath filled from the copper. My granddad was a miner and also the church warden , I can still remember the vicar coming to talk to him, he was sitting in the tin bath in the parlour talking to the vicar as if it was the most normal thing in the world. That must have been around 1955. No indoor toilet either just an earth closet in the back yard, there was always a pile of ash by the outhouse door so that you could tip a shovelful over the 'waste' after you had a dump.

[Eve]

I won't leave the house without showering and washing my hair, probably as its such a habit I don't feel right unless I do and my hair is quite oily at the roots so looks lank if I don't. I just like to clean, fresh washed feeling and it's just part of my getting up ritual.

I could happily shower multiple times a day and probably would more than once more often if my shower wasn't so rubbish. I have baths sometimes for relaxation/pampering purposes but it's always a shower to get clean - I've even showered right after having a bath :)

I hated not being able to have a proper shower after my gallbladder operation, I felt so yuk, even with strip washing and dry shampoo as it just doesn't feel the same.

[joko]

recently split with my bf of years and this is one of the reasons

he would go on and on at me in the morning until i showered - i liked to wake up, take my time, eat breakfast, maybe watch a bit of telly - then shower when i felt like it - he had a massive issue with this = he felt i should get out of bed and shower instantly as 'id been sweating all night and just lying in it' (i sweat no more than anyone else, he just meant generally.
so we bickered about this as i didnt like being told what to do and harassed about it

he says he wants a girl who does things like he does ...

when i was at his house i showered most days - except on the the odd day when i couldn't be bothered - but still washed my 'special little bits'
but that, to him, was terrible

at home i have gone 4 days without showering, but generally its every other day, and will often not wash my hair for days, if im not planning to go out anywhere
as someone mentioned i cant see the point in stripping your skin and hair of natural oils every day - its just dries your skin out.

humans have managed perfectly well only washing the areas that actually need a wash daily for a long time
as long as there is no pong i dont see an issue.

my elbows and shins and back and shoulders etc, do not generally get dirty in one day unless i am doing something that would cause it.

his attitude was quite weird and controlling - he seemed to think i am the only girl in the world who does this too - i am a weirdo!
as his first proper girlfriend im not really sure of his basis for comparison, but i couldnt live with someone who tried to run my routines for me

he has a lot to learn, lol

[Answerprancer]

It's a matter of personal need afaic, if you accumulate armpit stench, knob-cheese, arse-feta or fishy ***-smell at a daily rate, then you need to shower daily, if weekly, then ..weekly!