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scienceofficer has it.
I pretty much stopped using shower gel or soap and just have a quick shower every 2-3 days days or after intense exercise/sex. Maybe more often on the rare occasions when the weather is actually hot. No complaints or comments from anyone ever.
The idea that we all have to smell like Lynx Africa or equivalent and not just like a person is recent and bizarre and marketing-lead.
Holy mother of god, I’m not going down on any of you soap-dodging stinkers!
I'm good thanks.
Apparently you smelly lot that shower every day are just less evolved.
Or less mutated, depending upon how you view it.
I have eczema, and when it was less controlled I needed to shower 2 or 3 times a day just to keep what little control I had. Eventually I was escalated to the very top in treatment terms and the first thing the Professor at the Hospital said was "Stop Showering! From now on only a bath, once a day." Ain't nobody got time for that, but I tried to cut back on the showering as much as I could. Now I am on medication that has made a massive difference and I could go for days without showering if I had to, but I still start the day with a shower purely for hygiene reasons.
For the people who say "no complaints from others"... have you ever known someone to tell another person that they stink? Just doesn't seem to happen.
The idea that we all have to smell like Lynx Africa or equivalent and not just like a person is recent and bizarre and marketing-lead.
I quite agree. However stinking of unwashed bodies is not nice either - how about smelling like a clean human? I just use a little pure unscented soap.
Smelling of anything is generally bad, someone with excessive perfume on is as bad as someone sweaty imo
Smelling of anything is generally bad, someone with excessive perfume on is as bad as someone sweaty imo
I used to work with a reasonably heavy smoker, coming back into the office after one of her many tabs she'd drown herself in cheap perfume in the lift back up. I'm sure that she thought "no-one would ever know" but going in there right after she'd just got out was like being hit with pepper spray.
Elizabeth 1 only bathed once a year.Still managed to rule the country.
For the people who say “no complaints from others”… have you ever known someone to tell another person that they stink? Just doesn’t seem to happen.
Yep. When was v young man ninety eighty something I used to cycle to work in some old, knackered, many times soaked-through Brooks hi-top trainers. I’d wear them all day long seated at my board in a superheated, closed-windowed/unvented and small backroom studio of a design for print company.
My other clothes weren’t much better as all I had back at the duplex hovel was an inherited ‘Baby Burco’ which was basically a slow cooker for clothing. GF and I would boil our dirty clothes then let some grey water out into a bowl. Then hang the clothes to harden on a rack in front of an electric fire.
No shower in our hovel (just a bath and immersion heater) so 6am I’d have a standing wash at the basin then hop on the bike about 7am to cycle to work in nice tight sweaty jeans. Not the best hygiene, especially riding through rain and drip-drying in the warm studio. I’d habitually rush a Silk Cut before going in. To be fair even I thought my old trainers smelled like a couple of dirty hamster cages. They were offensive in an ammonia-type way.
My poor, long-suffering surly-faced colleague (who had always to sit right next to me at her board) one day just blurted out those exact words. ‘You stink!’. She wasn’t being jovial, just honest.
I took the ‘hint’ though 🤣
You know the kind of people that sit down next to you on a train and you gag at the odour they're emitting. They don't shower every day either.
ll save me a fortune when they move out. The tumble drier packed in a couple of weeks ago, I’m not fixing it until they’ve gone.
Disconnect the connector for the washer circuit board, maybe that'll speed the process.
I had a mate who wore suits to work, dry cleaned them about twice a year. Came home, put on jeans etc. Next day different jeans etc. Had to do wash 4 x per week. Dried everything so crispy the jeans were like cardboard. And wondered why his suits lasted forever but his jeans were threads in months.
Showering every day dries my skin out and my eczema can get out of control.
Sometimes it's necessary to shower every day and my oh notices the dry skin rather than change in odour. She finds it odd that I don't stink after exercise.
Possibly not being particularly hairy means any stink ends up in the clothes rather than trapped in the hair.
Risking a slight niff is worth it compared to eczema and I work alone mostly so nobody should be nasally offended.
Shower every day here without fail (once when I was wild camping in Iceland, I jogged three miles to a campsite, showered, and jogged home - and even when I go to festivals I find a way) but I will regularly wear the same underwear for several days if it means my freshness standards... :-/
In the far east equatorial climate showering once a day is the norm but twice is also very common while 3 times a day is silly like my father (morning, afternoon whenever he feels like and evening), due to the high humidity.
Over in the UK I only shower on alternated days and it is a quick in and out thing because it's bloody freezing. Too cold that little birdie would hide deep in the bush. I can go without shower easily for 7 days during the winter if I don't sweat.
However, if you consume a lot of meat, dairy or butter then please shower often as you are scent marking all over if you don't.
Holy mother of god, I’m not going down on any of you soap-dodging stinkers!
This wins the frequency debate. 😆
One of our neighbours has a 21 year old daughter still at home. She showers 3 times a day. And 30-35 mins each time.
His bills are double our's (family of 5) and yet I'm not aware that we stink.