Shit is cold? Better see a doctor — you may be dead.
Lately, I’ve been grim all over.
Re: men’s hair “products” - I suspect the “dry look” become popular around the same time that daily bathing/showering did. I have no doubt that infrequent hairwashing was the whole reason for putting that stuff in your hair in the first place.
And I can remember my mom using those “5 Day” deodorant pads. Do they even make those any more?
Me, I can’t even get moving in the morning without a hot shower. It loosens up my spine and relaxes the back muscles that have tightened up while I slept.
My mom has very, very dry skin, and doesn’t seem to sweat. She washes her hair in the sink twice a week, and takes a bath with bath oil on Sunday. She’s done this my whole life, and she’s never smelled bad. She has hand soap and shampoo, but has never owned body soap. Open her hamper and it still smells like clean laundry. My father, on the other hand, has a freshness capacity of 24hrs, tops. Usually, he showers twice a day because he’s been to the gym. There’s a whole range in between their two extremes, I would imagine.
I, aggrivatingly, inherited my mother’s skin but by father’s sweat glands. I’ve become I big fan of sponge bathing/selective washing with a hand sprayer. All the rest of me ever needs is a rinse. And a lot of moisturizer. Only if I’ve done something to get myself dirty, or if it’s really hot, will I take a full-on shower. (As someone said above, how often you bathe and how often you wash can be two different things)
A long soak late at night is relaxing, and you get to go to bed clean. Just don’t fall asleep in the bath!
And now we’re gonna be in the EU, too! Hahahaha!
Men in past centuries put pomade and other unguents in their hair. A little trivia: the word antimacassar, meaning a doily attached to a chair back, is derived from men’s hair oil. In the 19th century, many Englishmen used a popular product called Macassar Oil in their hair. This left stains on upholstery, hence the invention of the antimacassar to protect the furniture.
I absolutely have to shower every day. My hair looks disgusting if I don’t. It because a stringy, greasy mess almost 24hours on the dot. And I have to do it in the morning. For some reason, if I shower at night and then don’t the next morning, I’ll start feeling (and looking) dirty and greasy about halfway through the day. It’s a pain in the ass to not be able to skip a day. Or least it was until I discovered the joys of bandanas 
Wot’s wrong with showering twice in a day??
Nice hot shower in the morning - especially if the missus has been feeling frisky the previous night and everything’s kinda, you know, sticky 
- and then a quick shower when I get home from work (office job).
Doesn’t use much water - especially in the early evening when it’s just a quick sluicing down prior to unfolding the ol’ bow-tie and tails and getting dressed for dinner.
(What… surely you Americans still dress for dinner right? Right…?)
Historically, the Iberian Peninsula was often shown major disrespect by the rest of Europe, who considered it uncivilized and not really a part of Europe. The Spanish are often darker complected, and the Portuguese downright swarthy. Then there was that pesky Moorish occupation. Oops, I mean Moopish.
While most Europeans bath as often as anyone else, deoderant use is somewhat spotty. If someone from Europe smells bad to you, it’s not because they haven’t bathed, it’s probably because it is almost impossible to remove armpit funk from clothing, regardless of repeated washings. That said, I lived in Europe for eight years and seldom experienced the “Euro-funk” problem.
Not a darn thing. I’ve been doing it since I was an adult. Shower once in the morning for a quick wake up sudsing, rinse and shampoo. Once in the evening for a more thorough shower, shaving, loufah, hair conditioning, other lady cleansing as needed. Oops. Perhaps too much information.
pomade is just richman’s vaseline 
I’d be a dedicated evening showerer if I were less of a night owl (“Hey, it’s getting a bit late, maybe I should… oh, it’s 1am. Crap”). This time of year, showering in the morning means leaving a warm bed for a cold room and travelling to the (cold) bathroom, where I take off whatever I’m wearing and then expose myself to the cold yet again when I step out from under the water. If I must wash in the morning, without having the time to wake up properly beforehand, I’ll run some water into the sink and do only the essentials-- that way I get to keep my socks and bathrobe on.
I third that the OP’s assumption is wrong, in that most Dutch men and women I know shower every day. Although many (barring sports) also do it once every two days.
If there is a reason, it might be the climate. Over here, we have cool summers and lukewarm winters, and it is hard to work up a sweat from the weather alone.
Only in the time of my grandparents (early sixties, rural Holland) was it common to bathe only on Saturday. A tubful of water would be heated on the stove, Mom would go first, then dad and all the kids. The last one got the dirty bathwater.
On the other week days everybody back then would wash their hands, faces and armpits with washcloths,while standing at the sink or at the washtable. On the washtable would be a " lampet-kan" a bowl and vase filled with warm water that would be brought in the bedroom.
Especially for women, I think you need to take a shower every day in order to wash your crotch region. I would feel so nasty down there if I didn’t wash it every day. Between all the peeing and pooping and moisture down there, you have to wash it every day!
In college, my German teacher told us she was shocked at how Americans took a shower every day. She said they bathed only a few times a week (and she would wear the same outfit two days in a row… Monday & Tuesday: outfit A; Wednesday & Thursday: outfit B… so on and so forth).
Now that’s just silly - it should be Monday - Wednesday outfit A, Tuesday -Thursday outfit B - Friday pot luck, whichever is cleanest
I bathe every day, in the morning. When I was a kid, I had eczema on the back of my neck, and if I didn’t shower in the morning, there’d be flakes on my clothes. Not acceptable. That got me in the habit and now, I can’t deal without a shower.
I also have an acute sense of smell, and I can smell myself if I don’t do the daily ritual or washing and deodorizing… Maybe other people don’t smell themselves, or really don’t have any body odor. They are very lucky.
The thing that’s annoying is, my hair looks better if I don’t wash it every day. It’s much smoother and less frizzy. I use all the appropriate conditioners, etc., but it still doesn’t look as good as it does if I don’t wash it.
Um…sticking my neck out… I don’t know how it happened, but in recent years my showers have dwindled to once/twice a week. I must wash my hair every morning: even a 15 min power snooze leaves me with bed-head to rival an Exxon duck. But my skin feels clean, I don’t smell (my wife assures me), to see me you’d never know my -ahem- dirty little secret.
I’ve also discovered I can wear my slacks to work and only launder them after three or four wearings, much to the dismay of my dry-cleaner.
Maybe those cynics above who blame marketing-manufactured hygiene taboos are correct?
You know, I’ve never actually discussed crotch-washing with my mom. I assume it’s not a serious problem, the parents have been happily married for 35 years now.
You can wash the girly bits perfectly well without shower, anyway.
