How often do you shower and wash your hair

I shower every other day and wash my hair at the same time, I hardly ever go out so I feel that’s enough.
But in summer I shower every day.

As I get older I find myself washing at the sink like my grandma, except I use the one in the loo while she used the one in the kitchen/living room!! I hardly ever wash my hear which is nearly down to my waist since lockdown... A friend of mine who had beautiful hair told me you hardly need to as you get older. My husband would tell me if I smell, I know for sure. There: that'll put the cat among the pigeons!

I shower most mornings when I get up and wash hair once a week. Not sure how showering so much can damage skin. Even a nurse commented on my beautifully soft skin when I had a vaccination.

I have a long bath most days -it's the only thing that relaxes my neck ,back and knee .
Otherwise it's showers .
I shower before bed otherwise I can't sleep.
Hair wash -two or three times a week and I put one lot of shampoo on as my hair is so long and curly (should have been Victorian with ringlets) and tangles easily .

I wash my hair once a week. I would prefer a bath but osteoarthritis means that for 2 years now I've not been able to use ours except to stand in it and use the hand held shower but this is such a fandango that strip washing is easier. Recently we've finally had an ensuite installed so my new routine will be 3/4 showers per week with strip washes in between: too much washing of any type leaves my skin incredibly dry.

I’d feel gross I’d I didn’t shower every day! I nearly always wash my hair every day too.
I quite often have a bath in the evening too
I haven’t shrivelled up or gone crunchy like an autumn leaf due to lack of moisture either. My skin is soft as I don’t use too much shower gel and I put a drop of bath oil in my bath.
I honestly gross myself out if I don’t shower every day.
My mil point blank refused to wash when she got old. The visiting carers couidnt make her either. One day I looked through the card records and discovered she’d been lying about washing and it had been weeks and weeks. I was so worried thst I gave her and the cater no choice and their was actually mould growing in her underclothes. Even when she went into a home she wouldn’t let them wash her as she said she never went anywhere to get dirty!
If I start to go like that I hope someone shoots me as it’s my worst nightmare !

I shower every morning and usually wash my hair every other day, more if I'm going out on consecutive days. I remember too clearly the days of one bath a week ... ugh. Whilst I'd quite like to have a bath now and again, unfortunately my knees have other ideas!

A bath once a year whether I need it or not lol

Shower daily! Hair wash though twice a week on average.

I'll hair wash and shower more on a day if boiling hot, been busy or on holiday abroad.

Fortunately, my showering is more managed today, than it manages me. I am OCD diagnosed.

Though its not aa extreme as cases you can hear about when my mental health is in meltdown my showering and personal hygiene management goes up, daily.

I don't do baths! We don't have one anyway as we have a wet room. I don't like baths.

Like other posters have said yuck at childhood when you only bathed once a week. More though if weather was hot and you had been out in it and were sweaty etc. Shudders at the thought of it now

The family knows to call the Dr in, with me, when showering and rises above 3 times per day.

One part of my personal hygiene isn't managed though as I change my knickers every time I go to the toilet. That won't be changing

I know it's accessive however I don't feel clean unless I do

”Once a month, whether I need it or not”! Quoting my birthday sister Queen Elizabeth I.

Not really - usually bath using uppy-downie seat twice a week accompanied by cat doing a balancing act on the edge of the bath. Phew!

Quick shower and hair wash everyday. I have short fine hair so by the time I wash out the shampoo I've had a shower. Only time bath is used is when young GD visits and I have managed to acquire any bath bombs for her.

Tiggersuki

Find some of this hard to believe.
We only have showers in our house and both of us shower daily of course. Who wouldn't if they can afford to.

This is why Tiggersuki

I think we should all use a lot less hot water. It would save energy and a lot of money. Water is not an infinite resource, either.

To save the planet?

I think this thread is for people who want to feel superior and look down on people who don't have as many baths/showers as them . I have 25 baths a day and 50 showers! (Top that someone

Find some of this hard to believe.
We only have showers in our house and both of us shower daily of course. Who wouldn't if they can afford to.

I just got out of the shower! However, the last time I showered was Saturday morning. I used shampoo on Saturday but not today. I think it's a good idea for men to take a quick shower frequently. Perhaps that's sexist....

I think we should all use a lot less hot water. It would save energy and a lot of money. Water is not an infinite resource, either.

Shower every day and wash hair at same time, don’t feel good if it isn’t washed and conditioned

Can’t believe that as a child we only had a Bath once a week, usually Sunday evening so nice and clean for School.

Only had a quick wash in the morning before school so must have smelled awful by the end of the week ?

I have a bath every evening whilst listening to The Archers or somethingelseif it's a Friday or Saturday. If I'm going out in the daytime to do anything other than swim, I have a quick shower & wash my hair. If I'm going swimming, I have a brief shower before entering the pool and a proper shower & hair wash after I've come out. So, some weeks it's 7 baths & no shower at all & some weeks it's 7 baths & lots of showers. I never use a hair dryer - I have a short, choppy style & thick hair which dries in no time. I always have a secret smile as I watch people in the changing room at the pool painstakingly blow drying their hair. Just a quick tweak & a check in the mirror & I'm good to go.

ShazzaKanazza

I’m a bath girl I get one once a day and wash my hair ever other day and DH jumps in after me. He’s at the gym most days and gets a shower there too. I’m always disappointed if I go to a hotel and there’s only a shower.

Me too! I don’t use a lot of water, particularly for the bathtimes when I don’t also wash my hair, but I’m really not a shower person.

Bath/shower and hair wash everyday. Feel horrible if I don’t.
Usually twice a day in the hot weather. I’ve done this since my teens.

I shower 2x a week and wash hair once, I think people wash too much and destroy our natural oils that protect our skin, creams can never duplicate our natural oils and who knows what some of them are made of?

argymargy
I left MumsBet coz I felt so old and out of touch. Also coz of the bitchiness.

I shower twice or three times a week and wash my hair at the same time. Never bath! However, I am so pleased I have my bidet (some may call it old-fashioned to me it's essential) so a wash and bidet on the non-shower days. My husband wants to remove the bidet from the separate shower room to make a larger shower - eek! Lucky we have two. 5 minute shower for wash, hair wash and condition, shave legs and underarms, clean down shower with squeegee and shower spray - out! Even drying off takes seconds as i put a towelling robe on straight away, dry feet on tumble-twist bath mat, and wrap a towel around my hair for a few minutes. So why does my husband take 20 minutes in there or 30 if he's 'washing his hair'? His hair is very, very short!!!

Years ago, living in the tropics, 2 showers every day was essential, sometimes 3. Years ago here in Wales, a Saturday night bath, once a week, was a thing.

Anything else could be sorted out with a good squirt of perf.

Floriel

Not much mention of bidets here, apart from soaking feet in them, but I absolutely love them and had one fitted when we moved here. If you use the bidet regularly there’s no need for daily baths and showers with all that waste of water and electricity. I think they’re a woman’s thing. Men laugh at them for being pointless but they’re so useful, especially during periods.

I love a bidet too but sadly no room for one in my current bathroom. Plan to have a hand shower on the bath, at the end nearest the loo, to create a substitute!

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