Washing hair in the bath - how did people manage in the olden days?

theoretica

If the bath water is clean enough for my skin it is clean enough for my hair. I think 'in the olden days' people perhaps worried less about things like that.

Torry_Quine

It never occurred to me that this is an issue! When I have a bath I use a jug and fill it from the bath. Why would I need to use my shower when I am surrounded by water?

dogcat_2

:jI prefer baths to showers...I always wash my hair ( long) in the bath, just by dunking my head, shampooing...dunking...conditioning...then dunking again.....never had problems...hairs always soft and clean.:T

boliston

theoretica wrote: »

If the bath water is clean enough for my skin it is clean enough for my hair. I think 'in the olden days' people perhaps worried less about things like that.

Some people might have very dirty bodies

moneyistooshorttomention

In the olden days....when I were a lad:rotfl:

Well - I'm in my 60s and like a lot of my generation had to spend years living in grotty bedsits to start with:mad::(

So - it was grotty shared bathrooms as well. So the first bedsit meant a washbasin in the bedsit (that also had to be used as a kitchen sink). The second one meant a kitchen sink in the bedsit (that also had to be used as a washbasin).

I cant recall what the hot water situation was in the first bedsit - whether our washbasins got supplied with water included in the rent (I think??) or I might even have had to boil up kettles for my hot water:eek:. In the second bedsit - there was a tiny grotty little waterheater that heated the water for that kitchen sink. Neither house had any heating of any description in the bathroom/s!!!

Certainly I recall that 2nd house of bedsits getting sold on to typical greedy landlord part way through my time there and he put in a meter outside the bathroom that we had to put money in to get the water to heat up for our baths (so I certainly wasn't going to feed his meter on a daily basis).

One way and another - I didn't have daily baths whilst living in either of those houses (it was the 1970s and it was still "acceptable" to have just a couple of baths a week at that point). I had, however, started washing my hair daily.

I got round all that - by washing my hair in those sinks each day and having to refill the sink several times with clean water to rinse my hair off. I used a mug to ladle the water over my head.

I still had to wash my hair in a sink for my years in public sector rented accommodation in between grotty bedsits and own house - as there was only a bath.

The second I bought my own house at last = I got a shower straight away. Bliss - at last I can have a daily shower (including hairwash):)

Linda32

Well, my mil used to use the soft water tub as she calls it. Aka the water butt she says it was lovely.

I wash mine in the sink.

Alter_ego

boliston wrote: »

Some people might have very dirty bodies

I've seen folk washing their hair in the Ganges without problems!

pigpen

I cant wash my hair in the bath.. it simply doesnt work.. It wont rinse properly.. bum length rather thick hair... to go with my thick head

I lean over the bath and use a shower attachment.. hold it to the taps with jubilee clip and if it leaks at another join make sure it is pushed together properly.. secure with silicon sealant/superglue if necessary.. But I fill a jug with clean water and pour it over my head.. its really not that difficult.

I cant wash my hair in the shower either as again it wont rinse properly and I cant stand water running on my face.. If you every want to torture me waterboarding is the way to go.. the threat of it I would spill everything or confess to anything lol.

DigForVictory

I sometimes sluice my long hair when in the bath "going mermaid", but then wash & rinse it in the sink. Where a large plastic jug is my ally.

Ordinarily I use the shower, but if a bath has been drawn for me, it seems discourteous not to enjoy it.

System

When I was a little girl we used a jug. The jug half filled with water out of the hot tap and half out from the cold tap and it was just right.

I use the shower head now from the mixer taps.