How often do you shower?

[DetlefK]

I'm gonna put this here, because I couldn't find another sub-forum that fits. Showering fits here from the water-conservation angle.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/naya-rivera-showering-daily-white_n_6470150.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment

I wash my hair three times a week (not by choice. bad shampoo?), but a full shower only about once every two weeks or even less frequent. And no, I don't smell and there have never been any complaints about my odor.

I've read that you just don't smell sweaty if you have the right bacterias living on your skin and showering too much keeps those bacteria from spreading. (Those bacteria can conveniently be found in some kinds of mud.)

(Not the article I originally read, but similar content.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/magazine/my-no-soap-no-shampoo-bacteria-rich-hygiene-experiment.html?_r=0
Excerpt:
"Jamas, a quiet, serial entrepreneur with a doctorate in biotechnology, incorporated N. eutropha into his hygiene routine years ago; today he uses soap just twice a week. The chairman of the company’s board of directors, Jamie Heywood, lathers up once or twice a month and shampoos just three times a year. The most extreme case is David Whitlock, the M.I.T.-trained chemical engineer who invented AO+. He has not showered for the past 12 years. He occasionally takes a sponge bath to wash away grime but trusts his skin’s bacterial colony to do the rest. I met these men. I got close enough to shake their hands, engage in casual conversation and note that they in no way conveyed a sense of being “unclean” in either the visual or olfactory sense."



How often do you shower? What is normal?
Do you shower every day? Multiple times a day?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Mostly only once a day.

Generally in the morning, but if I really work up a sweat, I'll have to grab another quick shower later in the day. I must not have the right bacteria, because my housemate, who has a strong nose can come in and think I haven't showered that day even if it's been under 4 hours since my last shower.

[PersonNumber503602]

2. That sounds like an annoying housemate...

[yeoman6987]

3. Depends on the season

Winter every morning, but if I am going out at night for an occasion then twice. The morning shower 20 minutes, the evening shower 15 minutes. In the Summer definitely twice a day but sometimes three or four a day depending on activity. My water usage is still pretty low believe it or not.

[vi5]

4. During the week when going to work?

Once a day. If I'm not going to work one day or it's the weekend and I'm not going somewhere where I'm concerned about my personal grooming or can get away with a hat then I usually skip days. But my hair is unruly and unmanageable enough that I can't just wake up and go out into the world without looking like David Lynch's Eraserhead or Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons.

[Nay]

14. That's me, too. The hair has to be wetted/washed every day, or I

look like I'm wearing a fright wig. When I was working I took a 5-min shower every morning, but now that I'm retired, I can skip days by washing the 3 main areas....I also wear pants twice to save on washing.

[upaloopa]

5. Is there going to be a new DU standard for

personal hygiene coming.
In many of these type threads there develops some community standard that some posters say they adhere to thus shaming everyone else that doesn't adjust their thinking to please the community.

[DetlefK]

8. No shaming intended.

The article on huffington post just made me curious.

[eShirl]

6. Showering that infrequently, do you do anything to exfoliate

or do you just let the dead skin cells build up?

[DetlefK]

10. Build up, I guess.

I scrub when I shower and that seems enough.

And before you ask, I don't have any skin issues.

[hunter]

11. What do you think the "good" bacteria is eating???

That and the "bad" bacteria and viruses.

I may be joking here, but this is maybe the first and last time I ever type the word "exfoliate."

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Here in the humid South, a shower is often a way to cool down before bed.

Quick dip in and out in tepid water, does wonders.

I tend to do sponge baths and shower just a few times a week. to wash my hair, mostly.

depends on the season.
There is a saying down here:
"Horses sweat, men perspire, and women glisten"

In summer, I can.... glisten..... a lot!

[truebrit71]

9. Once or twice a week during the winter...

...more frequently if I work out in which case it is after every session...

More frequently during the summer because it gets really humid here in Chicago and it is an excellent way to cool down as well as not get too whiffy...

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Every single day

I take deep hot baths 3-5 times a week during damp, cold weather - when the barametric pressure weighs on my spine/hips/joints.

I seriously cannot move my hip without hot water on it in the morning.

I have Ankylosing Spondylitis and until someone has lived with this disease - they don't know how important heat and water is to someone's health.

[azmom]

18. I moved to Arizona

Because of the dry heat. It really helps ease my pain.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. Not an option

Not just from my job - but my husband's business (owns one) /career - and well -

I don't think I could feel comfy out there with all the papers please nonsense you guys have to deal with. My husband is a foreigner and has had some bad experiences in the South West. Some of those yahoo cops don't know Italian from Spanish.

[azmom]

20. I understand completely.

My back pain is the only thing that keeps us here.

"I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona". From Arrested Development

[JustAnotherGen]

21. Oh my!

I trapped in NJ with Christie driving the clown car!

[pscot]

13. At least twice a year

Whether I need it or not.

[Fumesucker]

15. When the dogs start avoiding me

[840high]

16. lol - i shower

every other day in winter. Daily in summer.

[NickB79]

17. 12 years with no showers?

I wonder what the crotch and foot funk situation is like at this point? That's the real test.

[DetlefK]

22. I read it that he uses only water, no soap-like products.

[madokie]

23. Depends on the season

6 to 7 times a week in the winter sometimes 2 or 3 times a day in the hot of the summer. Nothing like a good cool shower to revive this old man when its hotter than hell or a nice warm shower in the winter for the same reason