How can people go for multiple days without showering?

I’ve known people who can go for 5 or 6 days without showering and honestly I couldn’t think of much else more gross if I tried. I understand that everyone has a different hygiene tolerance but how do people tolerate their own body stench after two or more days?

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Reply 1

Obolinda

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I've no idea. But tbh, it happens when my mood is worse than usual

How perfectly able people go days without showering is really weird to me. I just feel dirty. My parents and theirs always did daily, maybe it isn't a UK thing.

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Reply 2

username4952620

Erm some of us have depression
And I think you know that.
And there’s something called deodorant

(edited 4 years ago)

Reply 3

Profesh

It's entirely possible to remain clean and fragrant without irrigating the Sahara.

Reply 4

username5027880

I fully agree with you
Personally I cant go a day without showering let alone 5/6, days.

Reply 5

gjd800

When I was a kid we had baths once a week and we usually shared the water with the rest of the kids in the family :laugh:

Reply 6

Obolinda

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Original post by Karisa96

I fully agree with you
Personally I cant go a day without showering let alone 5/6, days.

same

Reply 7

Reality Check

Original post by gjd800

When I was a kid we had baths once a week and we usually shared the water with the rest of the kids in the family :laugh:

Sundays?

Reply 8

gjd800

Original post by Reality Check

Sundays?

yep!

Reply 9

Reality Check

Original post by gjd800

yep!

This showering daily or twice daily (!) is a very recent thing. I do shower once daily, but when we lived in a very old house which didn't have a shower and couldn't have one fitted I didn't have a bath every day. Pits and bits sufficed.

Reply 10

gjd800

Original post by Reality Check

i have to be careful because I have eczema and counter-intuitively, too much water = very dry skin

Reply 11

Truflais

I'll shower every day unless I'm not leaving the house. Even then I wouldn't want to go more than a few days.

I only wash my hair like once a week tho.

Reply 12

Sorcerer's Storm

I shower every single day, but only shampoo my hair once a week. The other days I just wet it.

Reply 13

Obolinda

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Original post by WoodlandSorcerer

I shower every single day, but only shampoo my hair once a week. The other days I just wet it.

If I wet my hair every day, it would be such a struggle. I have afro hair so it would just shrink and tangle, I'd need to blowdry it every day or something. That's why my mum gets me to put extensions in. I use a shower cap.

Reply 14

username1539513

Original post by Obolinda

How do people not feel dirty and scuzzy

Reply 15

Truflais

I also do this. And just aim my shower head at my body so it doesn't get on my hair.

Reply 16

Lewito

Original post by gjd800

When I was a kid we had baths once a week and we usually shared the water with the rest of the kids in the family :laugh:

Wow, I wasn't the only one who did that as a kid :laugh:

Reply 17

Sorcerer's Storm

Original post by Obolinda

Wow, poor you! It must be difficult to have afro hair, how long does it take to dry?

Reply 18

gjd800

Original post by The Mogg

Wow, I wasn't the only one who did that as a kid :laugh:

This is late 80s and early 90s too, so not a million years ago

We were just skint, ha

Reply 19

parmezanne

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Sometimes it's simply not practical. I wash every other morning, so that means every second day - but there are only 7 days in a week. I go to the gym mon, weds, fri and I HATE having simply body washes - it seems such a waste of my time to not wash my hair whilst I'm there.

So, some weekends I will go without washing so that it lines up with my dirtiest moment being when I go to the gym so that I can wash the stink off of me the next morning lol.

Sorry if this confused anyone :smile: