How often do you shower and wash your hair

I shower daily (when we lived in HK it was sometimes twice a day with the heat and humidity!) and wash my hair twice a week. I never feel clean with a strip wash and by the time you've faffed about with that you might as well have just jumped in the shower!

My granny used to say that in the war they washed down as far as possible, and up as far as possible, and washed possible afterwards.

Quick shower every morning, hair wash every 3-4 days. Last time I had bath, in a hotel pre covid, I had great difficulty getting out and my pride wouldn’t let me call DH to help - so baths are out now.

I love baths but since being hospitalised last year I can happily bath, but I can’t get out! And no it’s an enclosed shower/ bath so no ‘gadgets’ work, before anyone tells me about them. I worked out my own eventually - a pair of grip gloves! - but it’s still a real fiddle and twice it took me about half an hour of twisting and turning! Also no, I may be a little overweight but I’m not obese and am 5’ 7” tall. But my strength and pulling power has wained at 75! It’s a deep bath!
So glad to see a few of you out there don’t shower every day, and twice a day seems excessive to say the least, unless you work in a coal mine or similar!
Most days I just wash my face, nether regions, and do my teeth, etc. I have a full shower one a week or often once a fortnight! This takes me about one and a half hours , occasionally more if I attempt my toes nails!, as my hair is down to my boobs! And combing that out, even with a tangle teaser takes at least 20 mins on its own! The nurses in the hospital said wow you’ve got “hot hair” ! It’s almost all my own colour too, just greying around the gills!
I’m not very active as I work from home but it’s all very sedentary, and I get groceries delivered, it’s rare I go out. Like a few of you I do ensure i’m Fragrant when going to hospital or something similar, but I don’t exactly go to raves or exercise, so I remain fresh but not over-egged!
Clothes are changed more regularly, and pants every day! I use deodorant, etc, and see NO need for showering every day!.
Even with a shower cap I find it impossible to keep my hair dry in a shower - so don’t - and shower with a hair wash when needed!
I do long for a bath often, though to no avail yet, i’m Too scared of getting stuck again!
No one has ever mentioned I am smelly and my sons certainly would say so if needed !

Every morning I am out of bed and in the shower within a minute, hair washed, body dried, lotions on, hair blown dry, quick burst of Yoga and dressed - about twenty minutes in all. Family are stunned by my speed - and a quick shower in the evening before bed, it helps me sleep. In really hot weather I often have a shower mid day too, but I never spend any appreciable time - even three of my showers must use less water than a bath.

Once a year whether I need to or not ?

BlueBelle

seadragon each to his own but the thought of never washing hair really gives me the ebee jeebies
Secretsquirrel the story of your mum in her mouldy knickers made me feel sick

I shall think of the hair every time I see a post from SD.?

I shower and wash my hair every other day.

seadragon each to his own but the thought of never washing hair really gives me the ebee jeebies
Secretsquirrel the story of your mum in her mouldy knickers made me feel sick

I shower every day and wash my extremely short hair while in the shower. I sweat a lot both day and night and showering less than once a day is unthinkable.

I made the move to here from Mumsnet to get away from this kind of thread

There is no law that every poster has to post on every thread. If it bores you, simple - just hop over to another one or start one you find more interesting.

I wash my hair and shower about every 4 to 5 days, depending on what I am doing and where I am going - my hair is long and curly and starts to frizz by about day 4. In between times I like a nice bath in the evening before bed.

unless he's gawn daan the plug 'ole.

OH has a bath every day, not had- he is still with us as far as I am aware!

I haven't read this thread all the way through but find it surprising that it's run to 6 pages of discussion.
I can't understand why so many people want to highlight their hygiene, for what reason?

A couple of times a week is the generally agreed on limit for showers and hair washing.

Daily shower and feel a real mucky pup as my mum used to say if I miss. Very quick in and out. Hair wash twice a week. Don't do baths, not good for your water meter and take far too long and others things to do!

Quite surprised at people who don't have a daily shower, we all sweat and have to go to the loo and thought strip washes went out with the ark.

I shower every night before bed and in summer if it has been a sticky night I will shower when I get up. I also shower if I have anything like a doctors appointment. We swim every day in summer so I wash my hair probably once a week

I shower and wash my hair every day and would feel very messy if I didn’t

I don't think bathing or showering every day is bad for you. I am almost 81 and have had a bath or shower every day since I was 20.. My ChIldren
Dren have had a bath or shower and they are both 50+.

Strip washes,noooo, not for me! Quite the worst thing when I had replacement knees and couldn't shower. I have a shower most days, wash my hair twice a week and have a bath when very cold or achey.OH had a bath most days as has a mucky stressful job.
But each to its own. My 90 year old cousin has a beautiful walk- in shower she uses once a week,and a strip wash every day. This isn't an age thing, she has done this since her 60's. Like most others, I think a strip wash is such a faff and ot drives me up the wall.

That was to seadragon.

Your husband’s sense of smell might not be good or he may have become, as the ad says, ‘nose blind’. Even if your hair doesn’t get greasy it absorbs smells in the air around you, and remember your scalp will sweat. My hair’s below my shoulders and I wouldn’t dream of not washing it a couple of times a week at least.

I shower every day and wash my hair twice a week as it's so thick it takes really long to blow dry it, it makes my arms ache.

I have a shower every other day in the morning and I wash my hair at the same time. The rest of the time I have a good wash, including all my bits and blobs, morning and evening.

I detest showers after 30 years at sea with no choice, but like virtually every sailor I know I bathe daily and wash my hair every other day.

Learned this in basic training in 1967 along with a whole host of other useful hygiene and housekeeping ‘rules’, but prior to becoming a rating my family bathed once a week, on Saturday night.