Do I really need to shower/bath EVERY day??

rachbc

my daughter only gets a bath once a week on dr's advice as she has eczema - though I do tend to do it more in summer if she has been playing out more - she gets washed every bedtime with a flannel.

I shower in the evenings after I've been running but not in the mornings

Pink.

Hi oldtractor,

We have an existing thread on this topic that may interest you:

Do I really need to shower/bath EVERY day??

I'll merge both threads together later to keep the opinions together.

Pink

lovebooks_2

I like to be clean. I bathe every mornming, sometimes twice a day. My hair, I wash 2/3 times a week though.

I'm not a dirty person, but don't feel ready for the day till I've had my morning bath.

sparrer

I don't bath any more purely for economical reasons - shower is quicker and certainly cheaper. I shower on the days I go out, usually 4 times a week, and strip wash the other 3 days. I use a buff puff in the shower but face cloths are indespensible both for washing my face in the shower, and strip washes. I dont recall a time we didn''t have a proper bathroom but loved the tin bath in front of the fire when I went to stay with my grandparents during the holidays, couldn't wait for them to get it in from the outhouse

Nimeth

I only shower properly twice a week, sometimes once a week. If I've been out running and I'm all sweaty, I fill a bucket up with lukewarm water, stand in the the dry shower, soap up a washcloth and clean the sweat off that way and rinse off with the bucket of water and cloth.

Taking showers everyday is actually bad for the skin long term, or so my GP tells me because you are constantly stripping away the oil that resides there and dries the skin out faster, particularly during the winter months when the air is drier. My eczema certainly improved in leaps and bounds when I stopped bathing/showering every day.

A change of shampoo & conditioner regime combined with showering less has also, believe it or not, made my hair much healthier than it ever used to be, and I have very long waist length hair.

LolaLemon

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm always surprised so few people iuse faceclothes ''nowadays'' and I'm only a few years older than you. I use a clean one each day, and when done quickly wipe up the bath and sink area with it before chucking it into the basket. I have LOADS of them, and they are like nothing else for cleaning back of neck, behind ears, between toes etc, and of course face!

I have loads now, (all sizes and colours and patterns, some with fleece backing) but growing up I didn't, I remember if I was dirty, my mum would wet the end of a towel and soap that, and then use the rest to get dried.... even now, my parents house only has 2 flannels/face cloths, and that because I sent them with my son, so he could get washed b4 bed and when in shower/bath
I know I used to sometimes have a sponge, normally after Christmas lol... just wasn't something my mum bought... even now, I went to give son a bath in her house and she shouted up: "don't use the sponge! It's got bleach on it!"
Yeah good yin mother, use a kids sponge to bleach the bathroom (rolls eyes.... if I knew how to do the emo I would lol)

I also remember using vosine.. its the best for getting ur hair 'stripped clean'

My nana used to tell me of her and neighbour/sister sneaking another bath in after they washed all the clothes on wash day, strip down n get in tub, get washed whilst other person kept look out incase anyone was coming into the wash room.. then swap over! Think she mentioned [STRIKE]catholic[/STRIKE] soap!

Carbolic soap, not catholic Lmao !!!

puddy

no strip washes here, we dont even own any flannels, urgh

however i think that even if you dont 'wash' your hair everyday, you should rinse it off if possible, especially if you suffer from hay fever in the summer or if you're asthmatic to get the dust/pollen off your hair. it transfers to pillows which means if you're particularly sensitive you're breathing it in all night

LittleMissAspie

You could go proper old style and not wash at all like in the 1400s. You could also wee in a bucket and throw it out the window, save on flushing.

puddy

LittleMissAspie wrote: »

You could go proper old style and not wash at all like in the 1400s. You could also wee in a bucket and throw it out the window, save on flushing.

you would also save on dentistry because all your teeth would fall out if you went really OS

lostinrates

LittleMissAspie wrote: »

You could also wee in a bucket and throw it out the window, save on flushing.

that's what the compost heap is for, surely?