UNLESS you work a blue collar job, or any other job that requires you to be outside the whole time, I don’t see the point in showering every day. Especially if you work from home or in a building with AC. It seems excessive and is also a waste of water. But do what you want lmao.
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I do exercise daily, sorry, daily shower is a must.
I’ve been a once a week person these days and I have no problem with it. I don’t leave the house much and should prob exercise more though dangit.
If I don’t my eczema gets extra bad, unfortunately.
Washing your hair every day is excessive, but showering? Dunno about you but I exercise daily and I take a shower after because I am sweaty.
I forgot about exercising, that would also make sense.
I forgot about exercising
Never change, Lemmy
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Washing your hair every day is excessive, but showering?
Speak for yourself. I shower every morning just to get my hairstyle back. I always look like I’ve been zapped with 10.000 Volts when I wake up and nothing else aside from warm water and shampoo helps. And I don’t even have long hair.
Yo! Fair! Different hair types need different care.
I envy your lack of oily hair.
I’d say that fits the “unless” (OP should’ve included exercise).
I can smell your ass from my screen. Ya gross.
I’ve always wondered what it smelt like. Inform me please
This is exactly the problem. 99% of the time you can’t smell your own funk.
If you can…you are endangering the environment.
So sorry, confused it with my chair.
I have a disability and cannot not shower every morning. It’s also 35-40 degrees here most of the year. I cycle around town. I also don’t need much water, I get myself wet, put shampoo, rinse, turn tap off again, lather, on, face was, rinse, off. I probably use five litres or less than that.
Upvoted for unpopular lol
What’s the average humidity where you live? Warm, humid climates make more sweaty people.
Washing everyday can be excessive. rinsing everyday is good.
I’ll say that Navy Showers should be the norm. Also makes it easier to end the shower instead of standing there at the end.
A ten-minute shower takes as much as 230 liters (60 U.S. gal) of water, while a navy shower usually takes as little as 11 liters (3 U.S. gal)
Deal with 1k mile super commuters.
But he’ll be so good for the shareholders! /s
From wikipedia:
A Navy shower […] is a method of showering that allows for significant conservation of water and energy by turning off the flow of water in the middle portion of the shower while lathering.
Dont people just turn off the water when they apply soap to themeselves?
If i turn off the water while i soap, it takes like 3 minutes to get hot water again after I’m done.
No, most people keep the water running while soaping parts of the body outside of the water, then changing what part is soaped while the previously soaped is being rinsed in the water.
Huh, maybe Im weird, but I ~use the water to just wash out the soap (and maybe sometimes I pour hot water for a minute to relax).
I made my process even more efficient few years ago by applying soap both at the head and body before removing it (used to first wash the hair and then the body) and I no longer wash my hair twice (unless the 1st wash wasnt enough).
I think most of us who take ‘long’ showers are using it as a form of relaxation/meditation whether consciously or not.
Yea, that 60 gallon thing is absolute worst-case, using a shower head from 40 years ago (which would be plugged up with minerals by now).
I’ve looked at the numbers everywhere I’ve lived over the last 25 years, and it’s nowhere near 6 gal/min. Virtually every shower head sold since about 1990 limits it to 2 gal/min. You have to go find one that does more.
Eh, I was shopping with a friend while staying over and they decided to pick up a really cheap shower head, and it made their hot water last 5-10 minutes. Before it would easily last 45min
TIL that I have always “Navy Showered”. I grew up in the Caribbean where all we had was a solar water heater. The hot water would barely be enough for one person so we always water on/rinse/water off/lather/shampoo/water on/rinse/water off. It’s how I have always done it. Same applies for toothbrushing. My wife leaves the water running while brushing, which has always driven mad.
My wife leaves the water running while brushing
I know this sounds crazy, but there’s a scientific basis for leaving the water running while you brush your teeth. See, I’m actually just making stuff up and wanted to see if I could get any bites lol
As former Navy, a Navy shower is all you actually need. Unless I am having a stressful day or week I take a Navy shower. If it a stressful day or week I turn the temperature up as much as I can stand and let it relax me. A sauna would probably work better, but I don’t have that option.
You can get those small personal sauna things.
This is not how all people shower? Huh. The only reason I leave the water running might be because I’m so sore that I need to to loosen up my cramped muscles.
Some bath/shower faucet setups are really not conducive to stopping and starting unfortunately (I’m thinking of 3 valve systems where you have hot, cold, and bath <> shower faucet with no easy way to turn off and back on to the same temperature)
Showers really should work like dishwashers. Basically fill a reservoir, filter, re-heat, and recirculate that water a few times. Could also slowly drain and replace a bit of it throughout or have discrete wash/rinse cycles.
Most of the water used when I shower is just standing there because the hot water is relaxing.
Discrete fill drain cycles uses less water than continual dilution.
Interesting. I might try this.
Navy shower + one of those droplets fractioning shower head and you’re golden.
Bonus point: It feels like showering in a Star Trek spaceship.
What’s this about golden showers?
Shit, I forgot about that expression
Where do you live, and do you no exercise? I walk to work, get a ride home, go to yoga or take a long Pokemon Go walk or lift weights, no way am I crawling into bed without a shower.
If you are dead idle and living in a cold dry place, sure. But I don’t think that is most of the world.
ETA: I saw the comment below about rinsing, not washing. I am not using soap everywhere every day, no. More of a rinse off.
For me, agreed. I live in a desert, work a sedentary job, and spend the vast majority of my time freezing in the ac because I’m not warm unless it’s like 76 degrees. My skin is happier if I skip a day and I try to save water whenever possible. But for other people, they know their stink levels better than me, and I’m not gonna tell anybody else how to wash themselves. Unless they’re like my ex, taking 2 or 3 showers a day for literally no reason and running up the water bill in, again, a damn desert. I did tell him to knock that off.
I live in Canada. In the summer I’ll shower every day, almost. Except days where, like you said, I stayed in with the AC on all day. Then I’ll shower the day after.
In the winter I’ll shower every two days. Or when I’m really cold and need some extra warmth.
Not just excessive - it’s simply bad for the skin, causes rashes and fungal issues.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/showering-daily-is-it-necessary-2019062617193
That link is overly exaggerating. It’s only really bad for you if you have a skin condition in the first place. Where I live showering multiple times per day is the norm and you don’t see anyone with those problems at all.
Hmm, think I’ll trust the academic article over you.
Multiple times per day??
Before and after bed usually, maybe even a third time after gym.
A lot of people have issues when science does not agree with their beliefs.
I couldn’t find any study on this.
Depends quite a bit on the lifestyle; but I agree.
Days I’m working (physical labor) I shower when I get home; but my days off I’m mostly sitting in an air-conditioned room watching media or playing games. Then I shower every other day; cause there’s really no need. There’s always exceptions though.
