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

Gers

Sorry if this post takes the thread off-topic but it's related!

Do you use shower gel or just plain old soap?

I think we're being conned again into buying expensive lotions/potions and soap is more than sufficient. Doesn't stop me being snookered into buying lovely smelling bubble-making shower gel now and then (oh, and using it when not at home cos soap could go all soft and messy when in those travelling boxes).

:rolleyes:

froggergirl

I shower and wash my hair every day, I find my hair really unmanageable if I dont. We all tend to shower in the morning and I am known for having a bath about twice a week in the evening too.
Def use shower gel as opposed to soap - makes me 'feel cleaner' but think thats maybe just because thats what Im used to.

System

To cut costs, you could always try turning your heater down to a cooler setting. Incidently, i was beginning to suffer with sore, red itchy skin on my legs and arms, the doctor gave me cream for it which was good, but it never went away. I turned the gas water heater temperature down when i had my daily bath/shower and the sore dry skin went away. On the minus side, it means i am not in the bath/shower very long before the water starts to go cool.

sashacat

I shower most days,especially if I go running or to the allotment....but no every day. I feel we are becoming obsessed about washing/cleaning probably because of tv advertising....it doesn't matterif we feel clean as long as we are clean. I to use soap as I feel shower gel is just liquid soap and is a rip off

Nikki

We only have a shower attachment on the bath taps, so I bath on sat & sun and strip wash every weekday morning. If we had a shower I would use it everyday as I wash my hair everyday(leaning over the bath is doing my back no good but needs must!)my hair is long and fine and looks awful if I don't wash it every day(and it makes my head itchy)Do the kids about 2/3 times a week. When I was a kid bath night was sunday and it was strip washing the rest of the week. 2 of my kids also suffer with eczema so soap is out, I use eviro friendly shower gel.

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

DD has a smallish bath every night, I normally jump in after. Sometimes if water is quite clean OH gets in for a quick bath, he has a quick shower otherwise. On the occasional days I dont jump in after DD, I have a strip down wash with a small sink of hot water, soap and flannel. My hair is washed about every 3 days as its very thin ATM and try not to touch too much..LOL. OH is shaven head and DD's hair is washed daily.

PP
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KatrinaC_2

Gers wrote:

Sorry if this post takes the thread off-topic but it's related!

Do you use shower gel or just plain old soap?

I use Johnson's PH 5.5 showergel as I have really dry skin and this is the only stuff I can find that doesn't make me itch.

I just buy it when it's on 2 for 1 and use a net thingie to make it go further. As far as I'm concerned it might cost more than just Asda cheapie soap, but it's cheaper than having to buy soap and decent skin cream for afterwards!

Kat

tootles_2

I agree that excessive washing seems to be linked to the increase in excema, I also think that choldren are more prone to illness becasue some people clean to excess, the chidlren do not get the chance to form any sort of immunity. Also houses that are kept too warm do not help.

As a child, living in a house with only a fire in the living room, my bedroom quite frequently had ice on the inside of the windows in the winter, we did not have the same fetish about cleaning either, as long as the house was tidy, cleaning, including the toilet was done on a Saturday when my mother was home from work. e had a bath once a week on a Sunday, the three of us using the same water, in the week it was a strip wash in the bathroom using a kettle of boiling water, the over bath heater was only put on for the Sunday bath.

I was quite healthy apart from the usual things, measles, etc that one seemed to get when starting school. I was only absent from school for one week during my senior schooling and that was when asian flu hit us way back in the late 50's.

With my own children, when we had central heating installed two of them developed excema although at the time I did not connect it with cehtral heating and the advent of the shower in our lives.

My daughter moved into a council house when she and her partner split up, she had no cental heating, just a coal fire in the living room and no shower, Lou who had both asthma and excema started to improve, they do have central heating now, the radiator in Lou's room is on a very low setting on the thermo valve, but she does not have it on high, and they still do not have a shower, the children have a bath every second night before going to bed. Neither of them suffer with colds, their mum uses vinegar etc to clean with, the only concession she makes to Lou's asthma is that the floor in her bedroom is wood, no carpet, and it is swept and damp mopped every day to keep the dust down. Lou had not had an asthma attack for 5years.

We have a shower, but I only have one every other day and we do not use shower gel, just ordinary toilet soap on a net scrubber. I found that when I used shower gel my skin got very itchy.

Ken68

I do it the submarine way...Turn the water on to get wet, turn it off, lather and scrub up, then turn on again to rinse off.
About two pints of water and using an electric shower every day about £10 a year.

gingerfurball

I'm in the middle of training for a marathon, my DH is training for an Ironman, if we didn't shower every day then the neighbours would burn down our house to get rid of the stench!!