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So....Mrs B suffering from irritated skin and went to Dr (well, same time as follow up to previous blood tests).
Dr asked about showering frequency.
Apparently twice per day is excessive.
I thought after getting up then before going to bed was pretty standard....
Is it?
You best not come and live with me if you think that is standard 🙂
I reckon I have, on average, 3 a day. Allowing for commuting etc
I shower once a day. I consider that excessive compared to growing up the 70s and 80s when one bath a week, inc hair wash was all I got.
Once a day with an addition after exercise if the two can't be intergrated (eg get up, exercise, shower - that's it for the day). Only exception if 'dirty work' necessitated another.
Normal day: 1
Commuting day: 2
Slobbing at Home Day:
Never have one before bed.
Eh? Its only January, my birthday's not till summer!
More than one a day seems a lot to me, excluding after exercise. I'm a one a day, in the morning, type. If I'm not at work, and planning exercise, I leave it until after that.
If I'm away paddling/walking/biking I'm quite happy to go days without if in the proper wilds, with the occasional use of a stream and a very cold damp cloth!
Excessive showering is actually bad for your hair and skin, as you are constantly bombarding yourself with cleaning products, stripping your skin and hair of natural oils.
Twice a day sounds excessive to me unless you've been heavily exercising or are physically soiled.
Working and/or away from home, twice a day.
Working at and/or at home, once a day unless I get a lunch ride in.
Why do you need a shower before bed? Unless of course you're newly dating obviously. 1 shower or bath a day here.
Does your wife work down t'pit?
No? Then yeah, 2 a day is strange.
I've a manual job and only bother of I feel the need. But then I've been told I'm a mucky sod. 🙂
I shower every other day, alternating with a strip wash at the sink. Showering every day ruins my hair.
1 a day in the morning, unless I shit myself during the day, which happens tops, TOPS once a week.
@myti yeah but then you just wash it in the sink.
I reckon once a day on average. More if a bike ride etc. If I shower late at night I wont bother in the morning. Unless I've had a sweaty night. make of that what you will
physically soiled
Best album name ever.
Every 2-3 days unless I’m exercising or commuting in which case it’s after the cycle
1 normally.
Maybe another if I have got sweaty/muddy.
Sometimes 0
Kids - every other day.
All of us - shampoo once a week.
One a day for me too: usual routine is post bike-commute in work but sometimes I'll have a Friday after work one if the commuting kit is minging, just a quick rinse.
A flannel in the evening when you wash yourself in the shape of the cross would be ok (unless groin armpit face are the areas OP s missus went to the GP)
Before bed. Plus after exercise. Not showing before bed if you share a bed is descusting
Once a day, occasionally twice if needed after sweaty exercise. Sometimes none at all.
I think people in general wash much too much.
I’ve had one shower so far this year but on average it’ll be about every third day.
Possibly an extra one here and there if I’ve been in a ride.
Not showing before bed if you share a bed is descusting
Get out of town. Much prefer a funky sex pit.
Once a day with an addition after exercise if the two can't be intergrated (eg get up, exercise, shower - that's it for the day). Only exception if 'dirty work' necessitated another.
This, with shampooing every other day. If early start I'll shower evening before unless it's a hot night.
Not showing before bed if you share a bed is descusting
What on earth is 'descusting', sounds like some sort of dessert....
Oh yes showers should be before bed or not at all. Showering in the morning is irrational.
An excessively hot shower is also bad for hair and skin, comfortably warm, yes ok, but if you can't see your hand in front of your face for steam afterwards, you're doing it wrong.
Twice a day when riding to/from work, but I don't always use soap, just water.
I thought the great unwashed was just a metaphorical expression
It's not the showering that is the problem, it's the chemical infested soap products we use when in the shower. I too suffer from skin irritations if I shower every day, so if I do shower I'll try not to use any soap. If I've had a session in the gym there is no need for soap - a shower is fine as you're washing your sweat off you. Post exercise smell comes from bacteria in your sweat so if you wash it off in a shower then you won't smell afterwards. If I've been out on the bike I'll shower with soap because I'm usually pretty mucky afterwards.
I could easy have 4 showers a day with the wooster bosh hi pressure shower, working outside what better to get a good body temperature and smell good at the same time
There are a few mingers on here
I just constantly lick myself.
The hair balls can be a bit problematic
Not showing before bed if you share a bed is descusting
Not as bad as your spelling.
Any why is it?
I used to shower before bed but the was when I used to start work at 7am 6 days a week, and I preferred 10 minutes extra sleep. Now just once a day in the morning, even though I cycle to work (It's only a 7 mile round trip)
Very very occasionally I skip a day. I felt like crap the other week and just slobbed around all day. Couldn't be arsed.
It's not the showering that is the problem, it's the chemical infested soap products we use when in the shower.
Have you tried Faith in Nature products? I use daily before spraying with deorderant from alu can.
I'm with wilburt on this.
If I'm not getting a sweat on, which is often at this time of year, every 3 days is enough & believe me, Mrs Egf would let me know if I needed a wash.
Plus, having a shower like ours, I'm saving loads of water.
I'm a clean freak by comparison to you lot! 2 every day without fail and sometimes 3 or 4!
Shower every morning as soon as I get up, even if I'm going cycling. Shower again after riding and then have another one before bed. If I don't shower before bed I sleep badly and wake early, feeling mingy.
Also, I would shower before getting dressed up and going out for the evening and shower again when I get home before bed, especially in the old days when people smoked in pubs and clubs.
In my defense, I have perfected the "Turbo-Shower" whereby I can wash my hair and body all over in 3 or 4 mins.
On a normal working day I will shower before work and that will be it for the day. If I had a physical job it would be twice a day.......when I was an aircraft fitter I would end up dripping with sweat just cracking off a set of nuts!
If I’m doing any form of exercise I will shower immediately afterwards.......see above.
Normally once a day, sometimes not. Only ever more often if I've got sweaty i.e used to be twice a day when I commuted by bike.
Not had a bath for at least 15 years.
I work in a dirty environment so one shower each day after work. I'll have a shower in the morning if I've worked up a sweat 😉
I would end up dripping with sweat just cracking off a set of nuts!
We've all been there.
Those oddballs that shower before bed but not in the morning.... Doesn’t it wake you up at night? Don’t you feel manky in the morning? Surely a shower in the morning wakes you up and makes you feel fresh for the day? If I don’t shower in the morning I feel grimy and sluggish
I’m with Houns metaphorically speaking. Unless he’s my wife, then I’ve showered with him. I can’t function and just feel dirty and wrong for the whole day if I don’t have a shower first thing.
Only time I have another in the same day is if I’ve exercised, ridden the bike, one of the kids has puked or shat all over me or I’ve done Manuel work. Showering before bed seems odd. Tends to wake me up having a shower, which isn’t the desired effect at bed time. Unless it’s Wednesday and I’m wearing my business socks.
just rinse it in the penis beaker don't i
Once a day usually before bed in winter.
Summer if it's warm twice a day.
Morning shower every day ..
After a bike ride I prefer to soak in the bath ..
Depends but some of you seem obsessive get up have a shower ride a bike have a shower WHY? Just ride then shower
Much less in winter as I dont sweat so much on the commute so I tend to only have one when i get home. In summer could be twice a day winter could be every other day essentially when I am dirty rather than just having a default setting
Showering before bed then when you wake is up is either awesome great dirty monkey sex or pointless
But guys who don’t perspire much can afford to go 2 to 3 days without showering, says Dr. Kiripolsky.And maybe Rivera is on to something: Excessive showering weakens your skin’s barrier function, making it more likely to react to fragrances, dyes, and other potential irritants. As a result, your skin can become red, dry, and itchy.
There you go, unless you’re exercising then 2-3 days is about right if you aren’t a sweaty bollocks.
Those oddballs that shower before bed but not in the morning.... Doesn’t it wake you up at night? Don’t you feel manky in the morning? Surely a shower in the morning wakes you up and makes you feel fresh for the day? If I don’t shower in the morning I feel grimy and sluggish
Seeing as there's a good chance I'll be covered in bits of grinding disc and cut up steel pretty quickly at work a shower in the morning would be wasted on me.
This reminds me of a filthy ****er I used to work with.
Working away from home he was in the hotel bar as soon as we arrived every night. No shower after being on a Building site all day pulling cables. And in the morning he always said I’ll have a shower after work. Whole week unwashed, and the stink of his shit from the toilet.
Great quotes were “I’ve just shat a walking stick” & “ it was still in my arse when it reached the water” skid marks all over the bowl and arguing that it wasn’t him that made the mess.
The last person I ever shared a room with from work.
Working class - bath after work
Middle class - shower in morning
Make you choice....
prolly about 3 or 4 times a week max
it's too much really and not necessary unless doing sport
Looks like I'm working class then. Dirty outdoor job so no point in the morning and being outside is enough to wake me up.
Once before work, either at work if I’ve cycled in or at home if I’m on the train
Once after exercise, so pretty much every day.
So yeah, twice most days.
I bet most of you don’t even wee in the shower
Anything other than once a day, in the morning, is utterly, [i]utterly[/i] mad.
I have a shower on the 1st of every month whether I’m dirty or not
Twice a day...sod that unless its in the middle of a heatwave.
Now I have a desk job, I normally shower every other day but can easily do every 3rd day if I'm not exerting myself without any 'odour' problems 🙂
Obviously if I'm cycling, I will shower the same day.
Once a day, any more causes skin problems
Less in winter and I feel better for it.
Exactly what funkmasterp said ^^^.
Except for the sock bit.
Once a week whether I need one or not.
Probably average out at twice a day, sometimes three times. Always once in the morning, even if I am going to swim/gym first thing. Then usually after exercise and even again later after work if I was going out somewhere.
I don't think 2 showers a day is excessive. Maybe switch to a fragrance free/ph neutral shower gel or something.
I wonder how many of the every third day brigade give the teeth a wee miss for a few days
Zero.
Because we don't have a shower at home (or have one at work - use wet wipes after biking in).
I'll have a bath as and when, might be daily, might be every other day, might be every three days.
Most days before bed unless I've had an easy day & its been cold.
The thought of getting into bed after a days work without showering just makes me itch + your only going to grind all that dirt into your bed clothes, 6 or 7 odd hours in bed asleep hardly warrants a shower in the morning.
Once a day for me, in the morning and again if I’ve been on the bike / gym.
I never used to bother showering in the morning if I was about to jump on my bike, seemed a ‘waste’ but since the metalwork went in my arms I need a pretty hot shower to get moving in the morning.
I thought at 1-2 showers a day I was an average 'hygienic' person but after reading most of this thread I have diagnosed myself with OCD cleanliness issues.
Some of you must be right stinkers or don't have any 'intimate relations' 😯
shakers97 - Member
I shower once a day. I consider that excessive compared to growing up the 70s and 80s when one bath a week, inc hair wash was all I got.POSTED 3 HOURS AGO #
This. Went swimming with the kids today and want to scratch my skin off.
Varies. If I'm sitting on my arse at work and driving around then once every other day. If I'm cycling to and from work then twice a day. So probably averages out at every 1.5 days. Quick wash and a whores bath on non shower days. Sorted.
[i]I wonder how many of the every third day brigade give the teeth a wee miss for a few days[/i]
You wonder incorrectly...brush twice a day, got one filling and that was when my dentist changed to a shady one, the second time I got a second opinion and it turns out he was just drilling my teeth (and the wife's) for cash.
I try to stretch my shaves to every other day as well as my skin gets irritated, however I have dark stubble so look really scruffy on the 3rd day :d
Are the people showering 3 times a day the type that changes bedding every 1-2 days too?
I thought at 1-2 showers a day I was an average 'hygienic' person but after reading most of this thread I have diagnosed myself with OCD cleanliness issues.
Some of you must be right stinkers or don't have any 'intimate relations'
+1
I don't want to know how often clothes/sheets/towels are changed either. 😐
One shower a day for me - a second if sweaty / dirty
My guess would not be the showering itself - its the soaps and products being used.
Have things changed so much since showers became the norm I wonder?
I remember only having a bath in our house & maybe using it myself 2-3 times a week. This was in the 70's (1970's not 1870's)
Can't remember anyone being particularly stinky back then.
& I bet no-one says, 'ooh, I felt really mucky back then & had a bath every day, wish we'd had a shower'.
Daft innit? I can't imagine going on holiday in a renty cottage for instance & it having no shower!
But that's the way it was.
showering 3 times a day
How do these people find the time to hold down a job that fits in with thier OCD hygiene regime?
But a shower takes a few minutes it's not like a bath which takes ages.
I don't have any hair to do sort afterwards so just a quick scrub and go.
oldmanmtb - Member
Working class - bath after work
Middle class - shower in morning
Born and raised very working class, have a very middle class job.
One shower a day, usually in the evening. Occasional bath in the winter after a proper cold ride.
Once a day.
Usually first thing in the morning, unless I'm off walking/cycling in which case it'll wait till I've finished.
Every other day unless I've been cycling, I'm hairy so sweat needs properly washed out or it just stays.
Believe it or not there are other ways to wash without immersing youself in water.
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I don't want to know how often clothes/sheets/towels are changed either.
Every day for underwear and tshirts, top and jeans can do a few days, towels get used once and sheets changed about weekly.
Wonder how many folk that shower so often get straight back into a pair of jeans that havent been washed in six months in all weathers 😕
I wash/shower/bath if I'm dirty. That could be 2 or 3 times a day or once a week. It all depend's what I've been doing. Growing up in the 60's Sunday night was bath night, end of.
Once every 2 to 3 days usually. Or more often if I have got particularly sweaty/dirty, ie running. Don't usually get that sweaty from cycling, unless it is really hot weather.
Never more than once a day.
And I avoid showering first thing in the morning, low blood pressure means a risk of fainting.