Cleanliness and hygiene

It was one of our Christmas presents.
We loved it!

Can someone please clarify somethin for me which has always puzzled me?

After a shower or bath, the water goes down the drain and presumable ends up being recycled or evaporating (I don't know which!) I can see that some water may be lost along the way, but surely most of it is not lost?

Personally I would take enough underwear to last me if staying with people. I would hate anybody inspecting and commenting on my knickers!

I have a bath in the morning and a bath before I go to bed. For me, it's not just about cleanliness it's that I find a bath very soothing to the bones (especially after gardening or strenuous housework) and just very relaxing. If I don't have a bath at bedtime, I find it difficult to sleep.

As a child, like many people, Sunday was bath night. I was happy about that because it was freezing cold upstairs as, again like many people, we had no heating there.

MissAdventure I still think bubble bath is a treat. I'm easily pleased!

I remember giving my mum bath salts - she liked lemon verbena - and bath cubes for Christmas. I'm not sure what was in them!

mancgirl ditto to all that!!

I remember buying my mum bath cubes.

I sometimes see them in poundland, and I've been tempted to get some and see what they're like now.

I shower every day, but am only in there for a couple of minutes. Like Sparklefizz I get wet, switch it off while I soap myself, back on for a quick rinse and out, so there's not a lot of water wasted. I don't wash my hair every day. When I worked I always treated myself to a luxurious soak in the bath on a Sunday night, but never seem to get round to it these days. Might just run one tonight......

For a week from 25th November, we will have no bathroom for about a week fortunately, we have a downstairs toilet & hand basin.

I can if need be use the shower at work, but not sure how Mr P will manage, he may have to stand outside with a bucket & sponge!

When we were children, my sisters and I had our weekly bath on a Saturday night. The rest of the week we had a strip wash and if needed, washed our feet. Hair was also washed on bath night, and we used the sink if we wanted to wash it in between.

Nowadays I shower daily, I wake up with terrible bed hair.

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Can someone please clarify somethin for me which has always puzzled me?
After a shower or bath, the water goes down the drain and presumable ends up being recycled or evaporating (I don't know which!) I can see that some water may be lost along the way, but surely most of it is not lost?

I can't give you a definite answer (though I think one of my sons could, so will ask him when I get the chance), but can say what I 'think', though it's just a layman's view and there are probably regional variations too:

Our waste water, whether from run-off, baths and showers or toilets, all goes to treatment plants. Once it has been 'treated', (the solids removed, etc.), the resulting 'clean' water is released into rivers and the sea.
However, there is no guarantee that treated water released into rivers or the sea will, once evaporated, fall as rain in our country, especially with changing climates and weather patterns, so it might very well be lost to us here in Britain.

The thing is, we rely on sources such as reservoirs and aquifers for our household water supply. Generally speaking, these are replenished by winter rainfall or snow melt (as rain at other times of the year often either evaporates or runs straight off into rivers and is lost).

It might seem strange in a country that has seen flooding over the summer that we are still short of water, but I think that in many regions we still are, seriously so, and we really shouldn't take our supply for granted, or abuse it!

I shower and wash my hair every day, I wouldn't feel clean without. I was born in a house with no bathroom so I think I feel lucky that I have those facilities. I don't spend long in the shower, I have it off to a fine art but I would hate not having that early morning clean.

Well you have uncovered a memory as we h ad Dettol added to our bathwater which did indeed fascinate me as it turned the water white!I also remember one Christmas Eve having Matey ,it was a lovely treat until I put the soap in and all the bubbles went I was very upset ?I think I was about 6 years old.

I notice that a lot of us claim that we don't spend long in the shower. But what is 'not long'?

Unless I am washing my hair, I think I run the water for a maximum of one and a half minutes - 10 seconds to wet myself, then the rest to rinse after I have lathered up. I bet some of you can beat that though

I’m a 2 minute girl MamaCaz and my DH has timed me on a hair washing session so it’s probably less than that on a quick morning sluice!

I actually don’t miss a bath because I usually got bored before I got cold in it but occasionally I will take a scented candle along if I’m staying in an hotel with the full monty in the room.

Eloethan I miss my daily bath very much. So relaxing, I used to read in the bath.
I can tell you the exact date of the last bath I had - 14/ 02/ 2018.
As I got out I passed out, landed on the floor and had a few minor injuries.
Since then only showers. {sad}.

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If you are washing your hair in that two minutes, you beat me hands down!

I have very thick hair, so although I economize by using the cold water that comes through the pipe before the hot water to wet it, it takes quite a bit of rinsing after shampooing and again after conditioner.

What a shame Fennel. I can really understand how you feel.

I can't understand how you can turn the shower off while you 'soap up' then turn it back on again - if we did that the water would go cold then too hot before it got to the right temperature again? It also takes me a lot longer than 2 mins - soap all over and rinse it off, wash hair twice and comb through conditioner so probably more like 5 mins. I rarely have a bath.

I do remember Sunday night was bath and hair wash night - I was lucky that I was an only child so didn't have to share the water with anyone and did have Matey occasionally. I bought some for my grandsons when they were here so it's still available.

Willow Well, it works well for me, but then I am quick and speedy, only wash hair once and it is not madly thick hair either.

I was a shower every morning girl until we started having problems with the plumbing (the house, not MY plumbing LOL). So now, if I want a good clean, I have to have a bath at night. Often, I'm too tired, so it'll be a shower at the blokes house a couple of times a week, probably one bath at home and in the mornings a top, tail and toes wash. I do wash my hair in the sink too everyday tho.

I could well stink and no one has been brave/rude enough to tell me, but I don't think there is any different.

I did like my morning showers though. They woke me up at 6am, ready for work.

Its a shame to wash away our natural smells and use flowers and animals musk glands to make us more appealing.

Phoenix my son and family had their one and only bathroom renovated. They booked into a hotel for a couple of nights but it turned out to be more complicated than expected. He ended up dispatching his wife and family to her mother's, and he moved back home and installed a large washing up bowl, a plastic jug with a spout and a vast plastic sheet in the sitting room. That, along with showers at work had to do, but I'd have loved to have been a fly on the wall of the sitting room, as he's 6ft 4 and has size 14 feet!

I have just timed myself; into the bathroom at 6.10. Teeth cleaned, showered, hair washed, dressed, hair blow dried by 6.25. I'm now having second cup of coffee! And I took the bins out.

When my cousin was ill, his wife used to help him. He could stand up, holding the edge of the sink. His wife bought a paddling pool and he stood in that while she used a flexible hose attached to the taps to 'shower' him.