I think you’ve missed the point. Sure, washing your teeth in the shower wastes more water if you’ve having a shower specifically to just wash your teeth.
But look at it this way - Those two minutes you’re brushing your teeth at the sink in the bathroom is on top of the time you’ve already spent in the shower. If you brush your teeth in the shower, whilst you’re getting the rest of your self wet (or whilst you’re conditioning your hair or what have you) then you’re not using separate time or water in just brushing your teeth. And it’s multitasking - if you’ve got a couple of “dead” minutes in the shower, which I do when I’m waiting for the conditioner, then it does save a couple of minutes, and I’m using that water anyway but not using more “toothbrushing” water on top so it is saving (an admittedly minute) amount of water.
Soap hair, using one of my oh-so-yummy smelling shampoo bars.
Rinse out soap.
Pour on my final rinse (1 tbsp apple cider vinegar, 6 drops of lavender essential oil, 4 cups warm water) and clip my hair up out of the way.
Soap up the rest of me. Rinse. Wash face.
Let my hair down, turn the water to cool (if it’s not there already - it usually is, I think I need a new dip tube or something in the water heater) and do another quick hair rinse.
If I’m just taking a shower and not washing my hair or shaving my legs, I can be done in 5 minutes. Add another 5 for the hair, and another 5 for the shaving. My shower usually starts running out of hot water at about 10 minutes. So I can wash my hair or shave, I can’t do both.
Stare blankly at the wall with toothbrush in mouth while back is getting wet.
Brush teeth
Stare blankly at assorted bottles of haircare products, trying to remember if I’ve washed hair yet
Lather up hair
Wash body
Rinse
Stare blankly at conditioner, wondering if I should be using that stuff or not
Sometimes shave
Wash pits again, because stinky pits are gross.
Rinse again because I forgot if I have already, and just in case I used some of that conditioner.
Stand around, staring blankly at the wall until I realize I’m done.
Get in with bunch of young, tanned, nubile friends…
Okay, okay. Get the water hot enough, climb in, wash body (I wash my face in front of the mirror), shampoo / conditioner hair and rinse, shave, soak in the hot water, climb out, find bath towel or bathrobe and draw something in the mist on the mirror.
Takes about twenty minutes, all told.
Female, face toward the shower head, far enough back that the water hits me around the bottom of my ribs. Unless I’m washing my hair or rinsing.
My process:
turn on the water and fix the temperature
step in
wet from the neck down, facing shower head
turn around, wet hair, later with shampoo, rinse
apply conditioner
turn around and face water
soap up from neck down
soap up face/ears with girly facial soap
rinse everything
turn off water, wring out hair (stuff is like a sponge…), get out and dry
also, usually:
11) remember that I wanted to wear shorts/skirt/sleeveless shirt
12) curse
13) quickly turn water on and get back in while it’s cold
14) quickly shave
15) cut myself
16) curse, turn off water, get out and dry off
It looks very involved now that I write it out, but I usually have the same routine and take about 5-10 minutes from turning on the water to drying off.
Get in shower (facing away) and allow hair to get wet
Shampoo
Put in conditioner
Shave legs, if necessary
Use bodywash
Rinse off bodywash and conditioner
Dry hair then wash my face
I hate getting water spayed in my face, so I have no interest washing my face in the shower.
Step in, face water.
Wash hair (no conditioner, my hair is only 1/8th of an inch long)
Rinse
Wash body with liquid shower soap and my mesh sponge thing
Rinse
3 minutes if I hurry, 10 if I bask in the hot water, as I’m wont to do…
I always face the water except to went and wash & rinse my back parts. I think it’s because I’m tall and even the tallest shower heads are usually just spraying my chest.
FWIW, I only just rinse my face with water. Since I started avoiding putting soap on my face, my adult acne has pretty much gone away.
Get in, set temp, face away from shower head.
Shampoo and rinse hair.
Wash body, working down from neck to feet.
Turn off water.
Take 15-20 seconds to wipe down most of my body with the washcloth. (This gets most of the water off my body, and keeps the towel much drier throughout the drying phase.)
Dry off with towel.
Exit shower as I dry my feet off.
I brush my teeth, wash my face, and shave at the sink, where I can see what I’m doing and use less water. (I’ve got no ‘dead time’ in the shower, thanks.)