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How often do you shower and wash your hair

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jeanie99 Mon 07-Mar-22 08:07:07

I was surprised to read on one of the other forums that a lady showered twice a day.
My husband before he retired showed at work before coming home. He did work that required this.
Into retirement I shower two to three times a week and wash my hair once a week. A strip wash daily for me is fine unless I am doing heavy gardening work.
My understanding was that showering too much is not good for us.

MiniMoon Mon 07-Mar-22 14:40:56

I keep my hair very short, therefore I wash it every day.
I have a shower every other day.

NotSpaghetti Mon 07-Mar-22 14:43:18

Every day.
It's quick and easy in the shower and I don't use lots of "product" on my hair so even with long hair the washing is fast and simple.

Hate strip-washing as it takes forever!

Sometimes I have a bath instead - but not if I'm in a hurry.

Callistemon21 Mon 07-Mar-22 15:07:32

"product"

If the hairdresser asks if I'd like some product on my hair, I always want to ask what product? What does she mean by product? Lots of things are produced but I don't necessarily want them on my head.

Callistemon21 Mon 07-Mar-22 15:13:54

My hair is difficult to dry and tame - perhaps I do need product.

The other day I just left it to dry naturally after washing

welbeck Mon 07-Mar-22 15:24:59

now you're showing off Callistemon. lovely ears.

Callistemon21 Mon 07-Mar-22 15:28:37

Gasp

I forgot to put in my special earrings!

Grandma70s Mon 07-Mar-22 15:38:05

I hate showers, but it’s all I have in this retirement flat. I couldn’t get out of the bath now anyway. I don’t wash my hair in the shower - I don’t see how that works. I do it in the wash basin. Hair every other day, shower every two or three days.

Ladyleftfieldlover Mon 07-Mar-22 15:38:07

I shower every morning and wash my hair every other day. When we lived in the tropics I often had two showers a day and sometimes popped into a hairdresser to have my hair washed and dried. I would love love a long, luxuriating bath but my knees won’t allow it.

Ladyleftfieldlover Mon 07-Mar-22 15:38:58

Just to add that after my knee operations I had strip down washes each morning. What a faff!

Calendargirl Mon 07-Mar-22 15:39:20

DH and I were only discussing the other day, how often we had a bath when we were first married, nearly 50 years ago. We didn’t have a shower, they were only to be found in the changing rooms at school.

I had a bath twice a week, and a good wash in between, DH probably used the same bath water as me. I worked in a bank, he had an outdoor, manual job.

Washed my hair in the basin.

Don’t think we smelled. Hope not.

How times change.

BlueBalou Mon 07-Mar-22 15:45:20

I love a bath in the evening, a shower if it’s hot weather or if I have got grubby gardening or something.
I cannot get into bed without washing, bathing or showering ?

Kim19 Mon 07-Mar-22 15:52:38

Every day for me hair and shower. Many years now so I can't understand living this long and not being a wrinkled old prune. It's actually my incentive for getting out of bed. Love it and do tend to linger when not going out early. Only bath when in hotel. Can't be bothered with the wait if I'm at home.

Patsy70 Mon 07-Mar-22 16:13:47

Can’t bear the thought of a ‘strip wash’. It would take longer than jumping in the shower each morning. Usually wash my hair every 2/3 days. I bath about once a month, with natural oils added, when I’m having a bit of pampering.

LOUISA1523 Mon 07-Mar-22 16:24:35

Shower and hair wash every morning....sometime have a bath in an evening

Caleo Mon 07-Mar-22 16:28:34

I have a wet room, but I moved house to where there is a shower room.

I imagine cleaning these glass screens is an awful bore and wonder if instead it's a good idea to have washable shower curtains to use with a shower.

BBbevan Mon 07-Mar-22 16:28:47

Shower and wash my hair every morning. Leave my hair, which is quite fine to dry naturally. Always have done this and always will. Clean underclothes every day also

Redhead56 Mon 07-Mar-22 16:34:05

Top and tail every day I don’t have set days for showers. I shower whenever I feel like one if hot most days wash hair once a week

DiscoDancer1975 Mon 07-Mar-22 16:35:02

Shower every evening. Can’t see the point of showering in the morning, unless you’re going to have another before bed. My children all do though, bar one. I just ask them how they can get into bed dirty, sweaty, smelling of that night’s cooking etc.

I swim three times a week, cycle, walk, so need to shower and wash hair on those days.

I can’t see the point of a strip wash. Too much faff. Our showers are over the bath, so just rinse round.....easy.

It is true, we don’t need soap, just to ‘ get wet ‘ every day. I can’t bear the thought of that though. Luckily, my skin is good.

DiscoDancer1975 Mon 07-Mar-22 16:36:14

Caleo

I have a wet room, but I moved house to where there is a shower room.

I imagine cleaning these glass screens is an awful bore and wonder if instead it's a good idea to have washable shower curtains to use with a shower.

Yes...it is. I wash my curtains roughly once a month. Wouldn’t want those doors.

Juggernaut Mon 07-Mar-22 16:36:46

Shower and hair wash every morning.
I can say with absolute certainty that there has been just one day in the past fifty years (probably longer, but at least fifty) when I didn't shower and wash my hair, that was the day my son was born.
I had a shower before bed on the evening before, went into hospital at 1-30 a.m., baby was (finally) born at 3.35 p.m.
I did manage to sneak out of the ward and into the shower at 4-30 a.m. the day after he was born though, when I had possibly the most wonderful shower I've ever had, it was certainly the most appreciated!

Zoejory Mon 07-Mar-22 16:38:03

Love the hair, Callistemon21!

I shower in the morning and have a bath in the evening.

I know, I should be ashamed of myself.

Lucca Mon 07-Mar-22 16:38:12

The strip wash thing…. Much easier for men as they can pop their bits in the basin….. less easy for us to be through with the undercarriage- hence my preference for a swift shower

grandtanteJE65 Mon 07-Mar-22 16:39:10

Before going to bed with my husband for sex.

And I am not going to tell you how often that is, ladies, as it is classified information.

Apart from that, whenever I think it necessary.

Ginpin Mon 07-Mar-22 16:46:17

Every day or maybe twice a day when in a holiday home, having already paid for the fuel in the cost of the home !

Also I have the time too, when on holiday.

Other than that I am more with the OP jeannie99

DH stands in the shower every other day and just lets the water pour over him for 20 mins !!!

Callistemon21 Mon 07-Mar-22 16:50:31

Lucca

The strip wash thing…. Much easier for men as they can pop their bits in the basin….. less easy for us to be through with the undercarriage- hence my preference for a swift shower

We had a bidet in the bathroom but removed it when we changed things around.
If gas prices go up and up perhaps we should refit it.

It was very useful for soaking feet!