Actually, a lot of women’s hair looks better on the second day post-showering, because the oils get distributed and it’s more manageable.
I’d say the worst hair length for 1-2 day unwashed hair would be in the 3/4"-3" range. Long enough to actually get oily, but short enough that there’s more oil than you need. My hair gets GROSS if I don’t wash it daily, and it’s in the 3/4"-1.5" range.
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I shower daily- it’s part of my morning routine. Wake up, use the bathroom, shower, shave. Basically the showering makes the shaving easier, and it wakes me up. That said, on the weekends, if for some reason we’re really busy around the house and not planning on going anywhere, I may skip the shower. I usually regret it by the end of the day because I feel very greasy and vaguely smelly.
When I’m in Florida during hot weather, twice a day. And I rinse my hair nightly, because it feels sweaty and gross.
I live in Massachusetts, so once a day normally.
My eczema flares up when it’s cold and dry in the winter, and daily baths/showers aren’t the best. I do shower daily when I’m working. I shower on alternate days on weekends and when I’m working from home (with washcloth cleansing of stinky places daily).
I’d say a skip a day about once every other month. I often double up when I’m on vacation and doing stuff like hiking during the day and then going out in the evening. I occassionally double up due to working out, but I tend to work out in the mornings.
Our water rate is astronomical, so we minimize as much as possible. Plus I’m at that age where stinky hormones are no longer an issue so I can get away (and have been told so by close friends) with not showering every day. Plus there’s the hair factor: It’s one thing if you’re sweaty and/or have oily hair, but if you naturally err on the dry side, frequent washing can do more damage than you realize.
I’m a fan of “wash the important bits” every day. Otherwise I take a shower maybe twice a week, maybe 3-4 times if it’s a hot and humid summer.
I’m pretty much the same as the OP. Doing it every single day seems like a waste - of time, water, energy, etc.
I definitely shower if I get sweaty, but that’s mostly on the weekends when I’m out working in the yard. I hate the feeling of being all sweaty and sticky. My day job is sedentary and so it’s really not an issue normally.
On a weekend, if I’m planning to do yard work on Saturday, I’ll usually wait until I’m finished with the yard work before showering, then maybe not bother with a shower on Sunday morning since I showered on the late side on Saturday.
But two days in between showers is about the max for me. I get to feeling pretty grungy by then, even if I’m doing next to nothing to make me sweaty or smelly.
And after two days, my hair really needs washing, and that’s easier to do by showering than any other way.
Every evening after dinner and chores, as a necessary prelude before relaxing. If I skip I’ll feel grungy.
I don’t use soap, but I use the residual dandruff shampoo to clean the nether bits. I shave around the mustache and beard in the shower (without a mirror), but only every 3 days (old guy, but a red head so it doesn’t show every day).
I get up in the morning and feel good for the day. If I work in the yard, bike, walk for exercise, etc., then I need one immediately afterward. If the work is late enough, then I can skip the evening shower (not usually), but I so like being in a hot shower, even in summer.
The most is - work in the yard in the morning, then shower before lunch, then yard work in the afternoon, then shower, then get roped into an evening walk, then a quick required rinse.
I’m not a bath person, I can’t get all of me in the water. At worst, my chest is in the air, not getting wet and I feel cold and half done. If I can get all but my head … same feeling. Even though the shower is not immersing, it’s the same all over, so it feels great.
Dear supreme being…I hope everyone’s answer to this is yes.
I worked downtown for a few years and because parking was so pricey, I used the light rail. This was during rush hour, mind you, and the cars were packed as tight as sardines in a can. Standees had hand loops on the ceiling of the car to grab, so if you got on at a later stop, as I did, you were forced to wriggle yourself in to the mass of humanity with your nose more often than not, jammed into someone’s armpit.
It didn’t matter if it were hot or cold outside, the heat of the car warmed up everyone’s personal funk, opened those pores, and let the remnants of whatever strange and unusual food they may have eaten recently waft forth for everyone’s enjoyment. Between the smoke-infused clothes of the smokers, the spicey offgassing of those folks who had eaten exotic food recently, the onion breath, the BO, the strong perfumes and/or afterhshaves, the hair products, the AXE (Oh my that stuff is strong!),etc. I became ultra aware of how mankind en masse can smell. As a result, while I know I can’t erase every human odor, I do my best to erase most of the more objectionable ones.
I no longer wash my hair daily, though, every other day is sufficient. My hair was getting terribly dry and as someone above has stated, women’s hair generally looks its best on the 2nd day anyhow.
I used to shower every other day. Mostly because due to my long hair it’s terrible to wash it every day, and I didn’t really feel like shower caps. And my job involves nothing more than sitting all day long. No reports of smelliness from others.
Started showering every day (with a shower cap every other day) a few months back since my husband decided he felt like doing it, and I figured I should follow suit so we both are fresh and not-quite-fresh at the same rate.
Since I hate any large amount of time before work, messing about before work, drying my hair via blowdryer, or going outside with wet hair (and it takes hours for hair of my length to dry by itself), I do not shower in the morning but at night. It also makes for better sexy times and cleaner bedding. I’ve never understood why a person would give up those two reasons for morning showers.
I swear I read something recently where African-Americans consider bathing every day to be a “white person thing” but now I kinda have to. For a while I was bathing maybe 3 times a week (I’m a bit of a “tree-hugger” so I was trying to conserve water while at the same time trying not, odor-wise, to be offensive to my fellow human beings). But without going into much detail suffice it to say that not bathing every day makes me very uncomfortable in places on my body that most people don’t get to see. So now I pretty much bathe (shower) every day, WITH A LOOFAH, to keep me feeling clean and healthy. With my current situation if I’d lived in a different era or in a different culture where bathing isn’t common I honestly have no idea what I’d do.
Weekdays I usually shower twice a day. A quick rinse in the morning to wake up and get going. A longer, hot shower after work or before bed. I don’t was my hair every day, usually every other day. Weekends it depends. Usually just at night, unless it is hot.
I probably shower twice a week (gasp!) in the winter.
And that is really only because of the greasy hair feeling mentioned by others. My wife attests that I was born with the non-stink gene—I say that’s awesome, but if I were choosing something cool to be born with, I would rather have straight eyes like everyone else so I could see 3D movies.
I come home from a long run, dry off, and change into clean clothes. For the record, long distance run sweat is entirely different from sticky grungy humid humid summer heat sweat: the former is mostly salt and water.
Things change drastically on the summer: showers always happen after yard work, for example.
Every morning. Some Saturdays (when I am not leaving the house) I try to go without a shower just because I like the idea of not having to get dressed, but by late afternoon I can’t stand it.
