I'm a soapmaker with a bit of knowledge about soap science. Enough knowledge that I completely understood why we were constantly told to wash our hands for 30 seconds during the covid years. Soap and water require that amount of friction to remove the oils (and the micro-organisms embedded in that oil) from your skin. The reason that studies show that there is little difference in the skin micro-biomes of people who have washed with soap and those who washed only with water is that most of us do not use enough friction to remove the oil from our skin when we shower. To do that you would need to wash every hand-sized spot of your body for 30 seconds. I did that once to see how long it took me: 25 minutes of continuous washing to truly clean my skin. Very, very few people do that in the shower. So we are not really cleaning ourselves in the shower every day. We are just sluicing our bodies with water. That makes us feel cleaner because of the cooling effect of evaporation when we step out of the shower, but we are not in fact any cleaner at all. I only bathe once a week, and in the winter only once every 2 weeks. I am not dirty, and I do not smell. But when I do bathe, I really clean myself. And that is definitely not something you want to do every day.
I'm bed ridden due to a severe spinal injury. I've not been able to have a bath or shower for 3 years due to severe chronic pain and the catheter I have coming out of my belly that drains my bladder. I do wipe down daily with special disposable body wipes with a special PH balanced cleaning agent. I'm perfectly fine.
It's amazing how a simple wipe down can refresh us, eh? 😊 I swear it's all about not leaving a bit of skin constantly damp. I think the hair dryer (on the body) is one of the most useful inventions 😁
@@devinecatlady Tena Body wipes are amazing. You feel so refreshed, smell great and it's a no-rinse way of cleaning the body oils. I wash my hair by drenching my head with a wet wash cloth, then use my favourite shampoo, and then rinse in a similar manner followed by a blow dryer. Works great.
@@CedroCronI'll look those up. Yeah the hair is my biggest challenge, mostly to prevent me soaking my shoulders and chest at the same time otherwise I have the ongoing problem of my skin pricking moisture for up to an hour, so I've got to be pretty strategic with the hair. Like you say a wet cloth can work. I remember when we had a long haired German Shepherd who had a skin condition so we couldn't wash him down to his skin all the time but his coat would get smelly. Our vet at the time recommended we take a piping hot flannel and keep stroking his coat with that, refreshing it regularly so the flannel was always hot. It cleaned all the dirt and oil from the top of the hair where it was holding the smell, and left his skin still beautifully and naturally conditioned. For a dog who didn't have a traditional bath for the last 7 years of his 16 year life he was the sweetest smelling boy ever. I applied that same theory to my own hair 😁💜
I have chronic pain, and also hyperhydrosis, so there are days at a time, sometimes weeks, where a shower is just not possible. I've found some cleansing wipes designed for this that are just so refreshing. To be fair, a good old baby wipe does the job nicely, too. We adapt, and anyone who can't handle this is not worthy of being in our lives.
I've had Keratosis Pilaris since I was a toddler (so Mum says) and sensitive skin as well (to cheap bandaids, some laundry detergents, some handsoaps). Grew up bathing every second day, using a damp facewasher daily on my face, pits and groin areas (no soap). When I was a young adult, my brother had an issue with very smelly feet (no other problems) and was told by his GP to "not deliberately use ANY soap on his feet at all and nor to scrub at all, to only wash feet and toes with a face cloth regardless of how often he washed". The smell was gone within a week. My brother was very fastidious and GP felt he may have been cleansing too strenuously. Anyway, my KP started to get rougher and spread further over my body when I was 25ish, no amount of moisturiser did much to help no matter the brand. Mum reminded me how my brother's feet were treated and suggested I try going two days between washing and see what happens. After about 3 months, not a lot to tell the truth. The KP and sensitive skin didn't improve or get worse, but my hair got oily. No-one told me I smelt bad or anything like that (maybe because I don't sweat much?) so I just kept on doing it. I worked as a nurse in a nursing home and knew of several residents who used hair conditioner as a body wash and shampoo, so I tried that for myself for a few months, but gave that up due to lack of change and not liking the slimey feeling of conditioner on my skin (it was also hard to rinse off). By my mid-forties, I was going 3 days between washes and chasing 2 kids through school. I'm mid 50's now and still only wash on the fourth day. My hair still feels oily, but it is so short that no-one knows or sees it now, so it doesn't bother them or me! I've lost the weight and Diabetes (with KETO) I put on with the kids during Covid. About 2 years ago, I discovered a new moisturiser to try - "Lanate Cream", the tube says "Smoothes and hydrates Dry, Scaly Skin & Skin Prone to Keratosis Pilaris" and "150g Face and Body Cream" with "Ammonium Lactate 17.5%" from Chemist Warehouse. It's the ONLY moisturiser I've ever found to actually mention KP on it so I had to try it. I only used it after washing, so only about twice a week. I didn't like the smell of it, but I finally felt I had hope, so I persevered. It did make non-KP affected skin sting a bit, so I only used it where it was needed (which was also where it didn't sting) as In thighs, buttocks, abdomen, upper arms and inner forearms. At the end of that first tube, I was noticing a lessening of the roughness!!! 2 years later and I am happy with my skin!!! I catch myself feeling the smoothness and enjoying it!!! The cream doesn't smell as bad as it used to - I'm not sure if it's because it doesn't have to work so hard on my skin anymore or not, but I'm liking it all the more for it! And I'm not so sensitive to detergents anymore! I am more sensitive in other ways in that I can now FEEL so much more now than ever before as the "leatheryness of the hide" is no longer there!!! I still only wash every fourth day. NO-ONE has ever even hinted that I smelt unpleasant, even with the hot "flushes" I"m now having. It only took me 55 years, but I'm now happy in my own skin!
I live on my yacht. I don't have a shower. The longest I have gone between showers is 10 months, though I would have a semi regular 'A.P.C.' (armpits and crotch) wipe down with baby wipes. I have often wondered If I stink but I have not had people recoil from me... instead, some people give me friendly hugs! I actually have less itch when I rarely bathe; I used to have terrible itchiness on my elbows and forearms when I lived on land and showered at least once a day. The itch would wake me at night and I have scars from scratching till I bled. Now that I rarely shower that problem has disappeared :)
I had problems with eczema and dry skin. Since 2017, I've taken daily brief cold showers with no soap or shampoo. Skin, hair and mood is great after. Once a week I have a warm shower to shave. I only use soap or shampoo if particularly dirty. Really glad for this routine.
I did the experiment in 2023 with only three showers (no soap, no deodorant, no shampoo) that year. I wore the same uniform for six or more weeks at a time before changing clothes. Nobody noticed or said anything to me. It suits me. I haven't been sick, my skin is clear, my hair is soft and I don't smell.
I inherited an old hygiene book from my grandma, it's from 1909, so before my grandma's time as well. In it it says hair should not be washed more than once a month
Having had worked as an OT in hospital for years I have seen all ends of the spectrums. People who shower every day, those that never do. Those that smell bad, good and not at all. And the correlation between smell and showers is weak at best. On the extreme end I have had patients come out of showers still smelling of BO. On the other end of the spectrum I had a lady who hadn't showered for three whole years and was worried she smelled. But she had kept clean with wash cloths at the sink and she was the cleanest patient I had. Showering isn't the only way to clean yourself. Washing up with an ewer and cloth uses much less water and gets you as clean. It'sjust not as convenientas popping into the shower. Wearing linnen that exfoliates you and is antibacterial will have you smell better at the end of the day than showering in the morning and wearing cotton all day, as long as you wash your face and private parts in the morning. Putting on clothes too soon after a shower and you risk fungal infections. So after all this? I shower every day because I enjoy it. Even though it's bad for my skin and uses up water and heating.
As an overweight premenopausal woman i have found for the last 10 years that it's a hideous experience having an actual shower. It's not the actual washing part, it's the AFTER effect. I can dry and dry and dry myself (even spending half an hour with a hair dryer on my naked body) but my skin keeps pricking moisture out of my pores for up to an hour, even in winter. So to avoid this time wasting and unpleasant sensation of "clean sweating", i tend to wash under running water just once a month. Before some of you gasp in horror and repulsion, i flannel wash regularly and especially in places like under the boobs, the groin, and armpits etc. These are the areas that from a medical point of view are most at risk of the skin breaking down and/or fungal infections, especially as a larger woman. The importance with every single flannel wash is that i dry that same area very well.....and the hair dryer really helps here because my skin still seems to be reluctant to dry off. I don't know if this is due to the premenopause. Is it like a hot flush after a shower? It happens after a flannel wash, a bath, sweating when it's humid, and makes no difference the temperature of the water. I would have a BATH more regularly instead of a shower because the pleasure i get from sinking into a bath almost makes up for the icky feeling of desperately trying to dry afterwards. Problem is I'm in an area where water is frequently short so i can't justify it. The one problem of the infrequent washing in a large volume of water is my hair. That's the one part of my body that gets smelly first because it's not getting the flannel wash each time. If my hair starts getting too oily i either give it a very hot water flannel scrub or dunk my hair under the hose. My skin hasn't tolerated lotions and potions for decades so it's only my running water shower that i use any product. I miss the days of actually enjoying bathing. This premenopause business is horrible in so many ways . 17:10
@@veronicalevin2325I would waste far too much water if I didn't have a hand shower. It would take SO much longer....and I'd get chilled in winter doing circles under a fixed stream. Aargh, even thinking about it I feel the frustration building 😂 If I just use the hand shower to do my bottom half I still end up with the same problem trying to dry off. I tried that to start and gave up pretty quickly.
I wash my hands a few times a day but only shower intermittently depending on weather and level of activity. Wear my clothes for up to a week also depending. As for as I know there is no strong odour but after donning freshly washed clothes I smell of washing powder Omo or whatever :-)
I once had a female companion ask me what I used to keep my skin so soft. I answered "soap". When pressed about what else I used, after some thought I answered "Water?". I shower every one to three days normally.
Hand wash at the bathroom sink every day : intimate parts, armpits, face & neck. Feet & shampoo as needed 2-4 days (both pretty dry). Shower + soap every week or other week (more as needed in summer). Clean "contact" clothing every day.
I find that age is another factor in how and how often one cleans oneself. Young children don't need to bathe as often for body odor reasons, but they get dirty playing, so they need to be wiped down and spot cleaned. Teenagers definitely need to bathe or shower with soap daily or they smell and they ruin their clothes with body oils. Adults can get away with three to five showers a week and elderly people need to bathe like children, once a week or so unless they're especially dirty.
i havnt had a shower this year or last year due to a problem with my hot water cuttting out once i get soaped , and i dont do cold ! , but i dont smell (my mrs would tell me for sure if i was) as i do wash my pits and bits that are known to get a bit pongy, every now and then i have a bath, washed my hair twice in the last year and its soft and shiny and long
Great topic, thanks. Ì'd like to see some research on shampoo use as well. Since becoming essentially imobile, i have reduced my hairwashing to twice a week and as a consequence i have lost a dry itchy scalp that had plagued me for years. I heard (not tried) one alternative is to was your hair with female urine.
If I am not very active I do not shower daily. By not showering daily, I keep my electric bill a bit lower. Our rates are the highest in the entire Country (U.S.). I also wear the same clothes day after day. Washing clothes frequently causes the fabric to wear out more quickly.
There is a multi-billion industry that wants us to shower or bathe as often as possible. However, we did not evolve with any particular necessity to bathe or shower, let alone apply a myriad of “skin care” products. Does our skin particularly thrive with frequent application of warm to hot water, soaps and shampoos, rinses, deodorants, ad nauseam? Perhaps more studies are needed. I am elderly and shower every third day, have done for years, and get along perfectly well in society. QED.
i shower once a month, no smell whatsoever, even though i run 5k twice a day. also no shampoo, n hair still look good af. everybody is duped by the marketing industry on the need of shower everyday and shampoo for better hair and myriad more useless product that poison the environment
What is the difference between shampoo (yeah a squillion brands) and what is branded as a "soft, gentle" soap? How much does diet play a part in the odour one can exude? For example, I once bought a Friesan x 1/4 Jersey calf destined to become veal. I could pick her up and put her into the back of my station wagon, perhaps just a week old. She grew up to be not only a fantastic milk producer, but also took on orphaned goats, calves, even a baby brumby. I was a newbie hobby farmer, trying out different crops to grow. One was a fair sized area of garlic, another, fennel etc., not to mention various types of pasture/grasses. Klara was free to choose what she wanted to eat except for the fenced off house garden. Yeah well, the lemon tree was in there,sigh... Anyway, she would ignore much and then would pig out on garlic shoots or demolish fennel to the ground or push the garden fence to raid the lemon tree, leaves and fruit. And when she balefully mooed at the crack of dawn each day for me to come out with a bowl of Uncle Toby's Oatbrits treat for letting me hand milk her, her breath smelt like lemons, or garlic, or fennel or usual cow breath. However, I don't really think any of those things affected the taste of her milk which I used every day.
I shower every day and if the shower..god forbid should not be working i run a bath. I cannot function without daily shower and i do not feel clean otherwise. As far as i am concerned not taking a shower is unacceptable. There are of course countries where water is precious . I live in England and it rains a lot!
@@akm960That doesn't always work for some people. Some skin is really problematic. In this person's situation I would encourage him or her to talk to their doctor or local pharmacy. What comes to mind is... I can't remember the name ...but it's like a congealed ointment/cream that you use as a substitute soap and it is constantly conditioning the skin while under water. Emulsifying ointment?? I used to use whatever it is when I was younger and suffering from dermatitis. The skin specialist prescribed it but it's cheap as and available over the counter as well.
Horrible having such dry skin . I'm assuming you've already looked into ways around this but just in case you haven't I'd recommend talking to your local pharmacy or doctor. What comes to mind is... I can't remember the name ...but it's like a congealed ointment/cream that you use as a substitute soap and it is constantly conditioning the skin while under water. Kind of moisturising but also sealing off the skin at the same time. Emulsifying ointment?? I used to use whatever it is when I was younger and suffering from dermatitis. The skin specialist prescribed it but it's cheap as and available over the counter as well.
I have started showering less the past year, up to two- three weeks between showers and I've noticed more dry flaky skin just under my beard, mustache, head hair, and eye brows. Smell is not an issue. I do wipe down with a wetted cloth in between as needed and wear light cologne as needed. The dry skin could just be a product of aging 🤔.
2, sometimes 3 times a day. You don't really have much option if you live in Brazil or if you are a teenager. Soap is not good for the skin more than one time a day, but taking a shower with just water is fine for reducing the heat. And we actually have this tradition because of Indigenous people from Brazil, they are clean af
I'm a soapmaker with a bit of knowledge about soap science. Enough knowledge that I completely understood why we were constantly told to wash our hands for 30 seconds during the covid years. Soap and water require that amount of friction to remove the oils (and the micro-organisms embedded in that oil) from your skin. The reason that studies show that there is little difference in the skin micro-biomes of people who have washed with soap and those who washed only with water is that most of us do not use enough friction to remove the oil from our skin when we shower. To do that you would need to wash every hand-sized spot of your body for 30 seconds. I did that once to see how long it took me: 25 minutes of continuous washing to truly clean my skin. Very, very few people do that in the shower. So we are not really cleaning ourselves in the shower every day. We are just sluicing our bodies with water. That makes us feel cleaner because of the cooling effect of evaporation when we step out of the shower, but we are not in fact any cleaner at all. I only bathe once a week, and in the winter only once every 2 weeks. I am not dirty, and I do not smell. But when I do bathe, I really clean myself. And that is definitely not something you want to do every day.
you're still gross and pretend water doesnt work. Also yes, you smell you just dont notice it
I'm bed ridden due to a severe spinal injury. I've not been able to have a bath or shower for 3 years due to severe chronic pain and the catheter I have coming out of my belly that drains my bladder. I do wipe down daily with special disposable body wipes with a special PH balanced cleaning agent. I'm perfectly fine.
It's amazing how a simple wipe down can refresh us, eh? 😊 I swear it's all about not leaving a bit of skin constantly damp. I think the hair dryer (on the body) is one of the most useful inventions 😁
@@devinecatlady Tena Body wipes are amazing. You feel so refreshed, smell great and it's a no-rinse way of cleaning the body oils. I wash my hair by drenching my head with a wet wash cloth, then use my favourite shampoo, and then rinse in a similar manner followed by a blow dryer. Works great.
@@CedroCronI'll look those up. Yeah the hair is my biggest challenge, mostly to prevent me soaking my shoulders and chest at the same time otherwise I have the ongoing problem of my skin pricking moisture for up to an hour, so I've got to be pretty strategic with the hair. Like you say a wet cloth can work. I remember when we had a long haired German Shepherd who had a skin condition so we couldn't wash him down to his skin all the time but his coat would get smelly. Our vet at the time recommended we take a piping hot flannel and keep stroking his coat with that, refreshing it regularly so the flannel was always hot. It cleaned all the dirt and oil from the top of the hair where it was holding the smell, and left his skin still beautifully and naturally conditioned. For a dog who didn't have a traditional bath for the last 7 years of his 16 year life he was the sweetest smelling boy ever. I applied that same theory to my own hair 😁💜
I have chronic pain, and also hyperhydrosis, so there are days at a time, sometimes weeks, where a shower is just not possible. I've found some cleansing wipes designed for this that are just so refreshing. To be fair, a good old baby wipe does the job nicely, too. We adapt, and anyone who can't handle this is not worthy of being in our lives.
Bless you!
What's the name of the body wipes? It would be really helpful 😊
I've had Keratosis Pilaris since I was a toddler (so Mum says) and sensitive skin as well (to cheap bandaids, some laundry detergents, some handsoaps). Grew up bathing every second day, using a damp facewasher daily on my face, pits and groin areas (no soap). When I was a young adult, my brother had an issue with very smelly feet (no other problems) and was told by his GP to "not deliberately use ANY soap on his feet at all and nor to scrub at all, to only wash feet and toes with a face cloth regardless of how often he washed". The smell was gone within a week. My brother was very fastidious and GP felt he may have been cleansing too strenuously. Anyway, my KP started to get rougher and spread further over my body when I was 25ish, no amount of moisturiser did much to help no matter the brand. Mum reminded me how my brother's feet were treated and suggested I try going two days between washing and see what happens. After about 3 months, not a lot to tell the truth. The KP and sensitive skin didn't improve or get worse, but my hair got oily. No-one told me I smelt bad or anything like that (maybe because I don't sweat much?) so I just kept on doing it. I worked as a nurse in a nursing home and knew of several residents who used hair conditioner as a body wash and shampoo, so I tried that for myself for a few months, but gave that up due to lack of change and not liking the slimey feeling of conditioner on my skin (it was also hard to rinse off). By my mid-forties, I was going 3 days between washes and chasing 2 kids through school. I'm mid 50's now and still only wash on the fourth day. My hair still feels oily, but it is so short that no-one knows or sees it now, so it doesn't bother them or me! I've lost the weight and Diabetes (with KETO) I put on with the kids during Covid. About 2 years ago, I discovered a new moisturiser to try - "Lanate Cream", the tube says "Smoothes and hydrates Dry, Scaly Skin & Skin Prone to Keratosis Pilaris" and "150g Face and Body Cream" with "Ammonium Lactate 17.5%" from Chemist Warehouse. It's the ONLY moisturiser I've ever found to actually mention KP on it so I had to try it. I only used it after washing, so only about twice a week. I didn't like the smell of it, but I finally felt I had hope, so I persevered. It did make non-KP affected skin sting a bit, so I only used it where it was needed (which was also where it didn't sting) as In thighs, buttocks, abdomen, upper arms and inner forearms. At the end of that first tube, I was noticing a lessening of the roughness!!! 2 years later and I am happy with my skin!!! I catch myself feeling the smoothness and enjoying it!!! The cream doesn't smell as bad as it used to - I'm not sure if it's because it doesn't have to work so hard on my skin anymore or not, but I'm liking it all the more for it! And I'm not so sensitive to detergents anymore! I am more sensitive in other ways in that I can now FEEL so much more now than ever before as the "leatheryness of the hide" is no longer there!!! I still only wash every fourth day. NO-ONE has ever even hinted that I smelt unpleasant, even with the hot "flushes" I"m now having. It only took me 55 years, but I'm now happy in my own skin!
Rubbing alcohol (Isocol) for smelly feet 🐾, or vodka etc if your feet are alcoholic or it is cheaper.
I live on my yacht. I don't have a shower. The longest I have gone between showers is 10 months, though I would have a semi regular 'A.P.C.' (armpits and crotch) wipe down with baby wipes. I have often wondered If I stink but I have not had people recoil from me... instead, some people give me friendly hugs! I actually have less itch when I rarely bathe; I used to have terrible itchiness on my elbows and forearms when I lived on land and showered at least once a day. The itch would wake me at night and I have scars from scratching till I bled. Now that I rarely shower that problem has disappeared :)
I had problems with eczema and dry skin. Since 2017, I've taken daily brief cold showers with no soap or shampoo. Skin, hair and mood is great after. Once a week I have a warm shower to shave. I only use soap or shampoo if particularly dirty. Really glad for this routine.
I did the experiment in 2023 with only three showers (no soap, no deodorant, no shampoo) that year. I wore the same uniform for six or more weeks at a time before changing clothes. Nobody noticed or said anything to me. It suits me. I haven't been sick, my skin is clear, my hair is soft and I don't smell.
I inherited an old hygiene book from my grandma, it's from 1909, so before my grandma's time as well. In it it says hair should not be washed more than once a month
@@LinaGenXI think hair powders were more popular then.
@michaelreid2329 and women wore scarves all day to protect their hair, it only came off for special accations
Having had worked as an OT in hospital for years I have seen all ends of the spectrums. People who shower every day, those that never do. Those that smell bad, good and not at all. And the correlation between smell and showers is weak at best.
On the extreme end I have had patients come out of showers still smelling of BO. On the other end of the spectrum I had a lady who hadn't showered for three whole years and was worried she smelled. But she had kept clean with wash cloths at the sink and she was the cleanest patient I had.
Showering isn't the only way to clean yourself. Washing up with an ewer and cloth uses much less water and gets you as clean. It'sjust not as convenientas popping into the shower. Wearing linnen that exfoliates you and is antibacterial will have you smell better at the end of the day than showering in the morning and wearing cotton all day, as long as you wash your face and private parts in the morning.
Putting on clothes too soon after a shower and you risk fungal infections.
So after all this? I shower every day because I enjoy it. Even though it's bad for my skin and uses up water and heating.
sure hun
Linen used to be used during Tudor times to rub away the supposed dirt on the various regions of the body
Dry bathing. Then some poor servant had to clean them in boiling water for /ages/, standing in the steam.
As an overweight premenopausal woman i have found for the last 10 years that it's a hideous experience having an actual shower. It's not the actual washing part, it's the AFTER effect. I can dry and dry and dry myself (even spending half an hour with a hair dryer on my naked body) but my skin keeps pricking moisture out of my pores for up to an hour, even in winter.
So to avoid this time wasting and unpleasant sensation of "clean sweating", i tend to wash under running water just once a month.
Before some of you gasp in horror and repulsion, i flannel wash regularly and especially in places like under the boobs, the groin, and armpits etc. These are the areas that from a medical point of view are most at risk of the skin breaking down and/or fungal infections, especially as a larger woman. The importance with every single flannel wash is that i dry that same area very well.....and the hair dryer really helps here because my skin still seems to be reluctant to dry off.
I don't know if this is due to the premenopause. Is it like a hot flush after a shower? It happens after a flannel wash, a bath, sweating when it's humid, and makes no difference the temperature of the water.
I would have a BATH more regularly instead of a shower because the pleasure i get from sinking into a bath almost makes up for the icky feeling of desperately trying to dry afterwards. Problem is I'm in an area where water is frequently short so i can't justify it.
The one problem of the infrequent washing in a large volume of water is my hair. That's the one part of my body that gets smelly first because it's not getting the flannel wash each time. If my hair starts getting too oily i either give it a very hot water flannel scrub or dunk my hair under the hose.
My skin hasn't tolerated lotions and potions for decades so it's only my running water shower that i use any product.
I miss the days of actually enjoying bathing. This premenopause business is horrible in so many ways . 17:10
@@devinecatlady yep the drying is the hardest part. Having a hand shower in the shower is useful for the washing part.
@@veronicalevin2325I would waste far too much water if I didn't have a hand shower. It would take SO much longer....and I'd get chilled in winter doing circles under a fixed stream. Aargh, even thinking about it I feel the frustration building 😂
If I just use the hand shower to do my bottom half I still end up with the same problem trying to dry off. I tried that to start and gave up pretty quickly.
I wash my hands a few times a day but only shower intermittently depending on weather and level of activity. Wear my clothes for up to a week also depending. As for as I know there is no strong odour but after donning freshly washed clothes I smell of washing powder Omo or whatever :-)
I once had a female companion ask me what I used to keep my skin so soft. I answered "soap". When pressed about what else I used, after some thought I answered "Water?". I shower every one to three days normally.
Hand wash at the bathroom sink every day : intimate parts, armpits, face & neck. Feet & shampoo as needed 2-4 days (both pretty dry). Shower + soap every week or other week (more as needed in summer).
Clean "contact" clothing every day.
I find that age is another factor in how and how often one cleans oneself. Young children don't need to bathe as often for body odor reasons, but they get dirty playing, so they need to be wiped down and spot cleaned. Teenagers definitely need to bathe or shower with soap daily or they smell and they ruin their clothes with body oils. Adults can get away with three to five showers a week and elderly people need to bathe like children, once a week or so unless they're especially dirty.
i havnt had a shower this year or last year due to a problem with my hot water cuttting out once i get soaped , and i dont do cold ! , but i dont smell (my mrs would tell me for sure if i was) as i do wash my pits and bits that are known to get a bit pongy, every now and then i have a bath, washed my hair twice in the last year and its soft and shiny and long
Great topic, thanks. Ì'd like to see some research on shampoo use as well. Since becoming essentially imobile, i have reduced my hairwashing to twice a week and as a consequence i have lost a dry itchy scalp that had plagued me for years. I heard (not tried) one alternative is to was your hair with female urine.
I love my boyfriend, but he needs to shower every day
I shower once a week, but I live in a cold climate
If I am not very active I do not shower daily. By not showering daily, I keep my electric bill a bit lower. Our rates are the highest in the entire Country (U.S.). I also wear the same clothes day after day. Washing clothes frequently causes the fabric to wear out more quickly.
YT send me more stuff like this!
Do they ever get around to Napoleon’s request to Josephine?
There is a multi-billion industry that wants us to shower or bathe as often as possible. However, we did not evolve with any particular necessity to bathe or shower, let alone apply a myriad of “skin care” products. Does our skin particularly thrive with frequent application of warm to hot water, soaps and shampoos, rinses, deodorants, ad nauseam? Perhaps more studies are needed. I am elderly and shower every third day, have done for years, and get along perfectly well in society. QED.
Everyday sometimes three times a day
Way too much unless you are filthy, you may have a problem!
i shower once a month, no smell whatsoever, even though i run 5k twice a day. also no shampoo, n hair still look good af. everybody is duped by the marketing industry on the need of shower everyday and shampoo for better hair and myriad more useless product that poison the environment
What is the difference between shampoo (yeah a squillion brands) and what is branded as a "soft, gentle" soap? How much does diet play a part in the odour one can exude? For example, I once bought a Friesan x 1/4 Jersey calf destined to become veal. I could pick her up and put her into the back of my station wagon, perhaps just a week old. She grew up to be not only a fantastic milk producer, but also took on orphaned goats, calves, even a baby brumby. I was a newbie hobby farmer, trying out different crops to grow. One was a fair sized area of garlic, another, fennel etc., not to mention various types of pasture/grasses. Klara was free to choose what she wanted to eat except for the fenced off house garden. Yeah well, the lemon tree was in there,sigh... Anyway, she would ignore much and then would pig out on garlic shoots or demolish fennel to the ground or push the garden fence to raid the lemon tree, leaves and fruit. And when she balefully mooed at the crack of dawn each day for me to come out with a bowl of Uncle Toby's Oatbrits treat for letting me hand milk her, her breath smelt like lemons, or garlic, or fennel or usual cow breath. However, I don't really think any of those things affected the taste of her milk which I used every day.
I live in Arizona and we have brumbies here, too. We call them mustangs. Cheers.
Dogs clean and groom each other
How often, to stay in context?
@ 😂 every day. My 2 blue heelers take turns licking each other’s ears out 🤮
So It took 14 minutes to get to the point.....
The point of this is the context as well as the numerical answer.
At least a shower or a swim each day, anything less is revolting.
At least 1x every 3 days
Business baths? 🤔
You know, like in "The Blues Brothers".
I shower every day and if the shower..god forbid should not be working i run a bath. I cannot function without daily shower and i do not feel clean otherwise. As far as i am concerned not taking a shower is unacceptable. There are of course countries where water is precious . I live in England and it rains a lot!
Water dries my skin out
You should moisturize after a shower then, duh.
@@akm960That doesn't always work for some people. Some skin is really problematic.
In this person's situation I would encourage him or her to talk to their doctor or local pharmacy. What comes to mind is... I can't remember the name ...but it's like a congealed ointment/cream that you use as a substitute soap and it is constantly conditioning the skin while under water. Emulsifying ointment?? I used to use whatever it is when I was younger and suffering from dermatitis. The skin specialist prescribed it but it's cheap as and available over the counter as well.
Horrible having such dry skin . I'm assuming you've already looked into ways around this but just in case you haven't I'd recommend talking to your local pharmacy or doctor. What comes to mind is... I can't remember the name ...but it's like a congealed ointment/cream that you use as a substitute soap and it is constantly conditioning the skin while under water. Kind of moisturising but also sealing off the skin at the same time. Emulsifying ointment?? I used to use whatever it is when I was younger and suffering from dermatitis. The skin specialist prescribed it but it's cheap as and available over the counter as well.
@@akm960 With some commercial product owned by a multinational mega rich company?
Even more so when one is old, as I am.
I have started showering less the past year, up to two- three weeks between showers and I've noticed more dry flaky skin just under my beard, mustache, head hair, and eye brows. Smell is not an issue. I do wipe down with a wetted cloth in between as needed and wear light cologne as needed. The dry skin could just be a product of aging 🤔.
Carer for the elderly here. Skin does tend to dry with aging starting with the extremities xxx
yeah you are the type of person who makes me gag on the streets
Interesting - but why the F is this a video when there is no vision???
Because YT doesn't do audio only, and this is a podcast. As it was introduced.
2, sometimes 3 times a day. You don't really have much option if you live in Brazil or if you are a teenager. Soap is not good for the skin more than one time a day, but taking a shower with just water is fine for reducing the heat. And we actually have this tradition because of Indigenous people from Brazil, they are clean af
of course there is going to a pig convention in the comments to this