Women who don't shower daily

[Amused]

Originally posted by: dullard
Showering too much is bad for your skin. Washing your hair too much is bad for your hair.

~1000 years ago, you rarely bathed.
~500 years ago, you bathed once a year.
~50 years ago, you bathed once a week.
~25 years ago, you bathed several times a week.
~20 years ago, you bathed daily.
Now: "You didn't bathe in the last 5 minutes! Ewww! Gross. Not showering every 3 minutes is bad for you."

You have to cut it off at some point. I think every other day or every third day is about right for most people. Of course, if you sweat or get dirty, then wash regardless of the amount of time from your last shower.

If you bathe/wash your hair daily, you train your skin and scalp to constantly be oily since you have to keep replenishing what you washed away. But if you do it less often, you'll be far less oily as your skin and scalp learn that they don't need to produce much oil. From that point of view, you may be "dirtier" by doing it daily than by doing it every other day.

Your time-line is fubared.

Daily bathing came into vogue at the turn of the century.

People took daily showers/baths 25 and 50 years ago.

They also did during Roman times.

Regular bathing fell out of favor because of the Christian religion and it's equating nakedness and bathing with sin. It lasted that way from the fall of the Roman empire until the turn of the 20th century.

Thankfully, germ theory was discovered and that, plus some creative marketing by soap companies ("cleanliness is next to godliness" was an advertising campaign) brought back the practice of regular bathing.

It took Europe quite some time to catch up with the US, though and regular bathing is far newer in Europe than it is here. Probably because of the presence of the Catholic Church there.

 

[mxyzptlk]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
I wash my hair every day, usually more. I take at least one bath a day, plus a shower or a bath in the morning depending on if I am working or not. Most days I take a third bath (or second if I showered). Sometimes I take four or five baths a day if I am not feeling well. If I am feeling really sick, I may take up to 15 baths in a day. Most of the time I wash my hair if I bathe or shower as I feel uncomfortable if I don't.

I'm no doctor but I'm not going to let that stop me from saying that you may have some sort of compulsive disorder. There can't possibly be a scenario where bathing 15 times in a single 24 hour period is warranted.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Showering daily is NOT necessary. COME ON! (GOB voice)

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Amused

Your time-line is fubared.

Daily bathing came into vogue at the turn of the century.

People took daily showers/baths 25 and 50 years ago.

They also did during Roman times.

Regular bathing fell out of favor because of the Christian religion and it's equating nakedness and bathing with sin. It lasted that way from the fall of the Roman empire until the turn of the 20th century.

Thankfully, germ theory was discovered and that, plus some creative marketing by soap companies ("cleanliness is next to godliness" was an advertising campaign) brought back the practice of regular bathing.

It took Europe quite some time to catch up with the US, though and regular bathing is far newer in Europe than it is here. Probably because of the presence of the Catholic Church there.

The Catholics never banned bathing, except in public.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene

Contrary to popular belief[5] and although the Early Christian leaders condemned bathing as unspiritual,[6] bathing and sanitation were not lost in Europe with the collapse of the Roman Empire.[7][8] As a matter of fact, soapmaking first became an established trade during the so-called "Dark Ages." The Romans used scented oils (mostly from Egypt), among other alternatives.

Bathing in fact did not fall out of fashion in Europe until shortly after the Renaissance, replaced by the heavy use of sweat-bathing and perfume, as it was thought in Europe that water could carry disease into the body through the skin. (Water, in fact, does carry disease, but more often if it is drunk than if one bathes in it; and water only carries disease if it is contaminated by pathogens.) Medieval church authorities believed that public bathing created an environment open to immorality and disease. Roman Catholic Church officials even banned public bathing in an unsuccessful effort to halt syphilis epidemics from sweeping Europe.[9] Modern sanitation as we know it was not widely adopted until the 19th and 20th centuries. According to medieval historian Lynn Thorndike, people in Medieval Europe probably bathed more than people did in the 19th century.[10]

 

[zinfamous]

Actually, I find your continued ability to metabolize most disturbing, OP.

As for women's hair, very few wash daily. It's quite damaging to hair--daily shampooing/washing--and is actually less clean. (hint: your body produces natural oils that both clean and moisturize your hair--amazing what millions of years of evolution have come up with, no?)

Seeing as how women tend to take their hair more seriously than guys, it's not surprising that they pay attention to these things.

 

[AmberClad]

Like various people have already mentioned, washing your hair every day get rids of the natural oils, even with a conditioner.

Other than the dryness factor, it's also really annoying dealing with dried out hair in the winter because of the static buildup (which obviously isn't an issue for guys with really short hair). You could use hair gel to deal with that, but that leaves it's own unnatural residue.

 

[cjmtfd102401]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: iFX
Women don't wash their hair daily because it will dry out and look terrible.

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I take a shower/wash my hair everyday and it is not dry

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: Amused

Your time-line is fubared.

Daily bathing came into vogue at the turn of the century.

People took daily showers/baths 25 and 50 years ago.

They also did during Roman times.

Regular bathing fell out of favor because of the Christian religion and it's equating nakedness and bathing with sin. It lasted that way from the fall of the Roman empire until the turn of the 20th century.

Thankfully, germ theory was discovered and that, plus some creative marketing by soap companies ("cleanliness is next to godliness" was an advertising campaign) brought back the practice of regular bathing.

It took Europe quite some time to catch up with the US, though and regular bathing is far newer in Europe than it is here. Probably because of the presence of the Catholic Church there.

The Catholics never banned bathing, except in public.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene

Contrary to popular belief[5] and although the Early Christian leaders condemned bathing as unspiritual,[6] bathing and sanitation were not lost in Europe with the collapse of the Roman Empire.[7][8] As a matter of fact, soapmaking first became an established trade during the so-called "Dark Ages." The Romans used scented oils (mostly from Egypt), among other alternatives.

Bathing in fact did not fall out of fashion in Europe until shortly after the Renaissance, replaced by the heavy use of sweat-bathing and perfume, as it was thought in Europe that water could carry disease into the body through the skin. (Water, in fact, does carry disease, but more often if it is drunk than if one bathes in it; and water only carries disease if it is contaminated by pathogens.) Medieval church authorities believed that public bathing created an environment open to immorality and disease. Roman Catholic Church officials even banned public bathing in an unsuccessful effort to halt syphilis epidemics from sweeping Europe.[9] Modern sanitation as we know it was not widely adopted until the 19th and 20th centuries. According to medieval historian Lynn Thorndike, people in Medieval Europe probably bathed more than people did in the 19th century.[10]

I never said it was banned. And your questionable link AGREES with me: "Early Christian leaders condemned bathing as unspiritual."

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: cjmtfd102401

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: iFX
Women don't wash their hair daily because it will dry out and look terrible.

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I take a shower/wash my hair everyday and it is not dry

People with shorter hair can usually get away with daily hair washing more than people with long hair. For most of my life I kept my hair pretty short, but a couple years ago I let it grow out. I use a small dab of baby shampoo daily. Its a hassle having to sleep correctly, deal with wind / bad hair days, etc, etc. Short hair makes life easy.

I wish I had short hair again but it took so long to grow this thing heck if Im going to cut it all off again.

 

[Excelsior]

My GF showers daily but only washes her hair every other time.

 

[Tessi]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
My wife showers in the morning. I wish she did at night instead .... for somewhat obvious reasons

I like this point of view!!

 

[Tessi]

Originally posted by: Superself
If you shit everyday, you need to wash your nasty ass everyday.

Agreed. However, they do have nifty wipes for now for better private hygiene. Though I would say even using wipes you should still at least shower every other day.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy

I'll tell you something else my well-scrubbed friends. You don't always need a shower every day. Did you know that? It's overkill! Unless you work out, or work outdoors, or for some reason come in intimate contact with huge amounts of filth and garbage every day, you don't always need a shower.
All you really need is to wash the four key areas: armpits, asshole, crotch, and teeth! Got that? The hooker's bath. Armpits, asshole, crotch, and teeth. In fact, you can save yourself a whole lot of time if you simply use the same brush on all four areas!
-George Carlin

Bathing every day is largely unnecessary as most people don't get dirty enough over the course of a day to justify completely washing their body on a daily basis. It wastes water, it fills the waste water with chemicals in the shampoo and soap which need to be treated at a plant before they can be deemed safe to reenter the water cycle, and it aids in the proliferation of resistant bacteria due to the abundance of anti-bacterial soaps. In short, it's a terrible fucking idea for most people to bathe every day. Maybe these women just realize that.

Or maybe they're just filthy hippies.

whether they use shampoo/ conditioner or not that water will be treated.

Well disregarding the water treatment issue, the oil and over-washing I would definitely agree with.

I used to get acne, not terrible like you see on those ads but it was enough to be an issue for me. I'd shower daily, and often wash my face daily or use some type of spot treatment. That acid used is just bad news for that kind of use.

I've found a more preferable method - I won't always shower daily - days I work out in the morning I will, but the others days I won't always, depends on what I do in that day and whether I get that dirty/sweaty feeling.
But the best method for my face - rarely will I wash my face. I just run water over my face and kind of scrub my face with my hands in the shower. Throughout the day I might also splash water on my face, partly just to help wake up, partly to freshen my eyes (this kind of goes hand in hand with the "to wake up" aspect on long days), and partly to try and strip some oils off my face. Some water splashed and pat the face dry will remove some.
From time to time I'll use a spot-treatment, and when I start feeling like my face needs that extra boost due to oils, I use an acid-free face wash.

When I was using face-washed with acid, it dried my skin like crazy. That extra dry, plus the faster buildup of oils, led to a worse face more commonly than not.
Water alone in the shower dries my face out. Often have to use a face lotion that I use after shaving to right the situation - when my face gets really dry it basically gets flaky.

 

[KingGheedora]

I was going out with this girl. She came over once and we spent 48 hours in my apartment lounging around and fooling around. We showered together the first day, but on the second day I took a shower and she didn't. I was disgusted and stopped seeing her after that.

 

[KoolDrew]

can't say I know any girls who specifically don't shower on a daily basis regularly.

 

[KingGheedora]

Originally posted by: Hacp

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy

Originally posted by: Hacp
I shower twice a day, but I wash my hair(with shampoo) once a month. I also use soap once a week. I haven't taken a bath in 10 years.

You wash your hair once in every 60 showers? What in fuck's name are you taking so many showers for?

I shower once at night and once in the morning. At night, I shower for obvious reasons. In the morning, I shower cause it helps with shaving. The shaving creams and soaps are ineffective on me. Whenever I use them, I always get some sort of rash or irritation. I discovered shower shaving a few years ago and it has been a godsend. No rashes. Not itches. No ingrown hairs.

Same here. I always wait until right after a shower to shave. Skin is way less irritated that way, and it's also less painful. I usually only shower in the morning though. If I don't have to go to work, I sometimes wait until later in the day, when I have to leave the house to shower.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: bobdole369
My roommate - an otherwise normal - well adjusted female in her mid-twenties - with a boyfriend and everything (no pics - fuck you) - showers weekly.

Can you imagine the stank on that pussy?

 

[imthebadguy]

i know a girl that dosent......kinda nasty IMO and i call her out all the time

 

[moshquerade]

it's all this brainwashing conserve water crap these people are swallowing.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
it's all this brainwashing conserve water crap these people are swallowing.

Maybe if they swallowed less there would be more for showering.

 

[potoba]

my fvcking chinese roomie doesnt shower very often. His room smells like crap and I had to tell him to either keep his door shut or clean. He smells pretty bad too... He doesnt even wash his hands after he go to the bathroom. Now I have to go around the apartment with a piece of towel.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: moshquerade
it's all this brainwashing conserve water crap these people are swallowing.

Maybe if they swallowed less there would be more for showering.

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[ScottyB]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
it's all this brainwashing conserve water crap these people are swallowing.

I liked the way my 10th grade History teacher explained it. Paraphrasing, "You can't waste water. YYou either piss it out and it goes back into the system or you pump it into the ground just like rain. It never goes away. Unless you fly it out on a space shuttle."

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: potoba
my fvcking chinese roomie doesnt shower very often. His room smells like crap and I had to tell him to either keep his door shut or clean. He smells pretty bad too... He doesnt even wash his hands after he go to the bathroom. Now I have to go around the apartment with a piece of towel.

yes it's disgusting, but I don't know what appalls me more - the disgusting habits of said roommate, or the germophobe tactics from you.
Germophobes annoy the fuck out of me. damn antibacterial-brainwashed fools.

I wash my hands occasionally, really only after sitting on the throne. And I'm still here.
And mankind got this far without killing the bacteria on every surface.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: ScottyB

Originally posted by: moshquerade
it's all this brainwashing conserve water crap these people are swallowing.

I liked the way my 10th grade History teacher explained it. Paraphrasing, "You can't waste water. YYou either piss it out and it goes back into the system or you pump it into the ground just like rain. It never goes away. Unless you fly it out on a space shuttle."

Sure you can waste it, technically speaking, but it gets locked up in various systems. Once it gets into the ground it takes awhile to get it back into the water cycle, has to make its way into a well or other ground-water tapping system, has to make its way into rivers, lakes, or oceans... and then either needs to fall as rain in the area specifically needing it, or be treated from the ocean. And all the water being chemically treated is locked up until its safe - that takes awhile too. They usually pump it into an artificial pond or something until the ecosystem can make it natural. Or go crazy with chemical treatments and put it back into the local water supply.

Places like desserts are where people are hit hard by water conservation. The ground doesn't offer the ability to create deep pockets of underground water, and all rain finds passage to a body of water far away.
So in times of drought where it cannot be collected in time, water availability is hard and has to be conserved, or the area has to be shipped water from elsewhere (not exactly common or efficient), until the weather plays nice again.