I shower once per day as a baseline. For me, I need at least one in the morning because I typically sweat at night, both in summer and winter. If nothing else, my hair will be like a bird's nest in the morning, and as I'd need to wet it to regain control of it anyway, it would be silly not to just have a shower. I also don't feel clean without that morning shower, and will feel self conscious about it if it's missed.
The climate in the UK is rarely hot, but we do get weeks at a time where it is both hot (27 °C - 30 °C) and humid. During these hot weeks, I'll often have another shower before bed too. I will also have another one if I go out for a run (often I mitigate this by running before my morning shower).
I will often have a second shower later in the day if I'm going out in the evening too.
As a counterpoint, my son hates showering. He begrudgingly has one each evening after school - but I suspect as he moves toward teenagehood, that he will also need a morning shower. On the occasions I insist on a second shower for whatever reason, it provokes moral outrage and disgust.
Twice a day, usually at night when I get home from work, and in the morning. Evening I do a "full scrub down" and in the morning it's more of a rinse and wake up. Works pretty well for me, I hate the feeling of "not being clean", and I hate human bodily odors. Even mine.
Pretty much on an as-needed basis. My workout schedule means that's usually every two days. Ngl, I did have a stumble last time I went on holiday; with my usual cues gone, I got lazy, and aromatic.
My wife handing me a towel was the reminder I needed. Whoops.
I shower every night because I hate sleeping dirty. If I'm going into the office or another activity that involves being around a lot of people I'll also shower in the morning.
It was always every day, until a year ago. We, as a family, decided it’s better for the environment to cut down on that. Energy prices going through the roof also played a part, it’s definitely what triggered the conversation.
I’ve dealt with excessive sweating, called hyperhidrosis, all my life. But I’ve had a very successful treatment some years ago. Before, it wouldn’t have been possible to shower any less, but now I’m proud to say it’s going great with only showering once every 2-3 days.
Depends on the season and what I’m doing, but generally about every other day. I have super dry skin and hate lotion, so that’s been working fairly well. Just switched to trying out nicer bar soaps from plastic body wash bottles, and I’m using a goat milk based one that seems to be going a decent job on the hydration front.
I exercise every morning, and shower immediately afterwards. I will also shower again later in the day if I wind up doing something that makes me sweat again. I sweat a lot.
I work inside. I shower somewhere between daily and once every three days. This is fully contingent on how sweaty or gross I feel. I wash my hair every day though, and wash it in the sink if it's not a shower day.
Depends:
If I'm commuting on my bike: Daily.
If I'm not commuting on my bike but still need to go to the office: Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and as needed.
If I'm not commuting on my bike and don't need to go to the office: As needed, when I end up leaving the house.
Daily during the workweek, then I usually skip one on Saturday.
I usually only shampoo and condition every other shower, which most often means Tues., Thurs., and Sun. are hair-washing days. My dandruff and breakouts along my hairline have lessened dramatically since I went to the every other shower regimen. Don't know exactly why.
None of this is hard and fast though. I'll shower and shampoo twice in a day if I feel like it.
Between 2-4 times per day. I go to the gym a lot (often 3x/day), and I don’t want to stink when I’m training with people so I have to shower before the gym, but I sometimes sweat out about 2-4 lbs of water at the gym so I absolutely need to shower afterwards.
I shower once a day in the week and usually have a long peaceful bath on the weekend, sometimes skipping a weekend day when it's not too warm and I haven't had much activity
Once a day in the evening; getting in bed without taking a shower feels kinda gross and makes my morning prep take less time. I'm bald so showers are pretty quick, 5-10 minutes depending on if I have to shave or not.
I'm a little weird. And I shower twice per day, in the morning and at night. My kids shower at least every other day (if they'd do it without argument, I'd have them shower every day). ngl I'm a little grossed out when I learn someone doesn't shower relatively frequently, but generally don't care much besides not wanting to smell or touch them (or things they've touched).
Usually once a day, in the evenings either after the gym or if I don't workout, then before I go to bed. If I don't workout and it gets to be super late, I'll make up for it in the morning.
Prior to the pandemic I showered every morning. I was commuting into the office every day and found it was a nice way to wake up. It became a habit so I'd shower in the mornings on weekends, too.
Since the pandemic, and now that I work from home 100% of the time, I find that I shower every other day, usually in the evening. I'm not a morning person so I prefer to sleep in and shower/bathe before bed as a way of unwinding.
Every day. It's part of turning my brain on each morning (except for when I delay the shower until the afternoon to accommodate exercise). When I lived by the ocean, often twice a day: once in the morning to wake up and once before dinner to rinse off the seawater after swimming.
Every day in the morning. I also shampoo and condition my hair every time. I know many people think that is way too often to wash hair. I have tried going longer without washing and it just does not work for me at all.
I think a general guideline should be to shower every other day in general. You should shower more if you get really gross for whatever reason (exercise, bonfire, etc) and if you shower less, you should ultimately cross your T's and dot your I's so that you're as clean as someone who showers every other day. Also, don't shower for too long
Twice every day, at the morning just after getting off bed and one at night after work or just before dinner. Also if there is any event in the afternoon I take a shower to get dressed. (btw brazil here)
When I worked in an office: every day, in the morning (first thing), usually no shower at night.
Now that I work from home, it's once a day, usually mid-day. I want to get back in the habit of doing it in the mornings since its a great way to start the day, but I got lazy and started waking up late.
In summer in NYC, with the heat, and especially with how hot the subways are, days where I go outside for a while are two shower days: once in the morning/mid-day, then once again at night after coming home, drenched in sweat.
This is completely different depending on factors. For a start, I'm in England, UK. The weather here ranges from -8c in winter to about 35c in summer.
I have to shower at least once a day. I opt for a night shower. My wife is the same except she opts for a morning shower.
In the summer months I will also have a full strip wash if I'm hot or a shower morning and night, sometimes a middle of the day cooling shower should I need it. That afternoon one isn't necessarily for hygiene reasons, just that I need to cool down as I run hot at the best of times.
Where people live dictates sweat quantities, plus types of jobs. My job means I sit most of the day, I'd imagine a bricklayer out in the sun would go two times a day for a shower, maybe even throw in a bath to relax those aching muscles.
Reading the replies, I didn't realize there were so many French people on Tildes. Just a little joke, don't kill me.
I typically shower once a day. Twice, if needed due to exercise, the weather, social engagement, etc. For the people saying every two or more days, are you all working from home? In Alaska? Are you all single? No housemates or other regular human contact?
And does no one else think it's very weird that energy costs can have such influence on people's personal hygiene? Not being able to afford to shower has to be peak late stage capitalism. Even so, to me it would make more sense to change how you clean yourself (shorter showers, lower temperatures, turning the water off while lathering, baths instead of showers, even using a scoop and pail instead) rather than how often.
Don't get me wrong, when I worked from home I could go a few days without a shower if I got lazy because I wasn't leaving my place, so I get it. I recognize my own laziness there though.
Honestly, between 3-4 days. Generally, I'm not terribly stinky; my antiperspirant keeps me smelling ok and my bidet keeps down under clean and smell free, so I generally only shower when my hair starts to ick me out or the front part of my southern reaches looks or smells nasty.
If I'm doing physically demanding things day in and out, I'll shower more, but generally I don't get super sweaty.
I shower once a day since the weather is usually pretty mild where I live now. When I went to university in Illinois, I'd shower twice a day both in the summer and winter. In the summer, showering multiple times a day felt necessary because the sweat would just make me feel gross and sticky. In the winter, it was a nice way of just relaxing and warming up before I went to sleep. I know it's not the healthiest for my skin but man did it feel good.
I live in the American south so I shower everyday, The humidity makes the decision for me. I grew up in the Sonoran desert and the heat there is bad but the humidity here is unbelievable - some days it feels like you took a shower while wearing your clothes.
Every morning since my hair turns to oil overnight. So it's either shower or look like I just smeared oil in my hair. If I do something that makes me sweat too much I'll take a shower at the end of the day too.
Like a lot of other people here, I'm a laborer, so I shower after work. My particular job has skewed my sense of what "dirty" is to the point that I simply don't feel a need to shower unless I have a particular reason to.
I do change my shirt and unders on a daily basis though
I shower every day for a while, and then every couple days for a while, it also depends how death I get
I had depression in 2011andwent 3 or 4months with out showering once, I had these huge pimple to devolope behind my ears, and I had a dog wedge its face In to my crotch once, I must have smelt smelly to it, lmao
I shower every night, but avoid soap on most of my body. I use a body wash on my navel and perianal regions, Cetaphil on my neck/face/ears, and regular shampoo on my scalp (which has always been oily.)
If I'm not working out, water and friction is sufficient to remove perspiration and control everyday odors. Underarm deodorant in the morning (not antiperspirant) is sufficient to prevent the usual BO.
Why strip the oils from your skin if you're just going to have to put them back in with lotion, at great expense? My skin has never been healthier.
I shower once a day on my two days off and twice on all of my five workdays. Once before and once after. I work at a gym so I have pick up weights people leave plus going around and cleaning/maintaining the entire 40,000 square foot building. Lots of potential for sweating.
On my days off I'll do any chores and grasscutting etc then shower and be good for the day. I hate feeling dirty so this system hasn't failed me yet.
Between once and twice a day to every other day on average. I also regularly take baths if I have the option of a nice big tub. I don't like feeling dirty and I find that I do if I'm not showering often. I'm not terribly smelly as a human being so I could get away with longer time between but I'll feel the difference. I also mainly just use soap for the really important bits. I definitely shower more if I'm sharing a bed with someone than when it's just me. I also have fairly naturally oily hair and since it's quite long these days I have to wash it every day or so or it will be noticeably greasy. When it's short I can get away with washing it twice a week or so.
I shower once a day for most of the year when it isn't cold or overcast but in winter, when temperatures drop beneath 15 degrees Celsius I often shower once every 2 or even 3 days in a cold front because I'm not very physically active and won't really sweat in cold weather unless I do some more serious physical activity than the typical walking to the bus stop and then to my classroom. In summer I really feel the need to shower because it can reach 30 degrees where I live and I can sweat even at home while doing nothing, but I still don't do it more than once a day out of habit honestly.
In the summer, I'll shower daily as it's really hot and humid here. I'm sweaty and greasy by mid-day. Sometimes, I'll jump in a second time for a quick, cold water rinse if I'm feeling particularly gross.
In the winter, closer to every other day, sometimes 2-3 days if I've been particularly inactive and haven't left the house.
Spring and Autumn are very much "when I feel I need to shower", but generally no less than every 2 days.
I get that regularly showering is a cultural thing but anyone who's had to give a body search on a dude who smells like a four day salty nut sack understands that cleanliness really is next to godliness.
That said, there's levels for showering too. A day with minimal activity? Hop in, rinse off, hop out. Don't touch the hair. Maybe 45 seconds total. Got a little sweaty but washed my hair yesterday? In, quick soap and rinse, out. No more than a minute, really. The longest showers are when I shampoo and condition but, as I started above, those are like 3 minutes long. 5 if I'm feeling lazy.
Sometimes I'll shower in the morning, sometimes at night. Really just depends on how sticky I feel.
Once a day. I went to showering twice a day this summer, but then I learned that it might be bad for your skin, so I went back to showering once a day (and maybe a second time with just water, without soap)
If someone asks me in person I'd say 4-5 times per week. In reality it's probably closer to every 2-5 days. More in the summer, less in the winter. I've asked around a lot and I've (almost) never been told I smell, even if I get pretty sweaty. 5 days is pushing it, this is kinda gross but I've found my testicle area starts to hurt around day 5 of no shower, the hair gets all like matted with sweat and grime and it will feel like it's getting pulled when I walk and I'll develop a minor rash. Ideally I'd like to shower every 2-3 days, but I don't enjoy showering and it just feels like a time waste if I don't feel gross or smell gross.
Other than the ball thing my hair is usually what causes me to shower. It gets oily, I've found 1-2 days after showering it looks best, then it gets increasingly worse.
How I love Tildes, I mean you can have a serious conversation about showering, a topic nobody will bring up out of politeness or even interest.
As for myself and showering, if I'm not heading out at all, I'd do the shower once in 2-3 days until I find myself smelling bad. Showering too often rids us of our natural odour which isn't necessarily as off-putting without sweat. It sounds weird but people I've been intimate with have mentioned that they like my 'smell'.
I live in the tropics but I'm also usually indoors in a cool air-conditioned room. And I luckily have that Asian gene that reduces body odor 😂 so I can get away with not showering for a few days, or wearing clothes several times without washing. My hair can get greasy though, so I prefer to shower at least every other day. (The greasiness was greatly reduced though when I switched to a silicone-free clarifying shampoo, yay!)
Handwashing is a different story, I'm a chronic handwasher who needs to wash their hands sooo many times every day, after touching anything that I feel is "dirty" (doorknobs, money, anything that's been on the floor, etc), before and after eating, etc.
Twice a day. Every morning so that I can start the day feeling fresh, and after I exercise - which is most days (recently that means an hour in the gym followed by an hour cycling outside). I don't sweat a ton and live in a very mild climate, but I don't want to be less than clean at any given time. As far as wastefulness goes - I don't generally take tremendously long showers. It only takes a few minutes to get clean. I remember people telling me they'd take 30-40 minute showers. If you do that every other day it's less wasteful to take two 5 minute showers per day.
I also just generally enjoy the experience of bathing, so wouldn't want to miss out on it.
Nearly every morning. I feel like my body produces more sweat and oil at night, so if I don't shower in the morning (or at least before I leave the house), then I'll feel grimy all day.
Every morning after going to the bathroom. I'm a creature of routine and habit.
If I've exerted myself or for whatever reason have become sweaty or stinky I'll shower again. Sometimes if particularly hot I'll shower using Dr Bronners peppermint soap all over my body and that quickly helps give me the wonderful sensation of cold. Only for summers. Then the cats go crazy and violently lick me.
2-3 times a week. I go to the swimming pool so that's where I shower. I don't use shampoo so hair looks crispy all the time, even after 3 days. I also shower whenever I'm going out, if I did not go swimming that day. I feel clean and don't sweat much, so that's fine for me.
I bathe strictly two days a week. I hate the sensation of water droplets splashing on my skin, so the way I bathe has evolved over the years to minimize that happening:
I shave my head, so there's no need to wash my hair.
I sit in the water and scrub myself with my hands. No soap, less water use.
I used to go on more days without bathing, but my partner did not like how I'd start smelling, so we came up with a schedule that accommodates both my need to minimize unpleasant experience and his need to minimize unpleasant experience.
Daily. My apartment gets warm in Southern California here, and not too cold in winter. I start to smell funny after one day, and itch/get oily quickly. I shower at night, or if I'm going into an office for work in the morning before I leave.
I don't worry about pooping throughout the day because a bidet keeps my hind clean until I shower at night. Just spritz, dry (ensuring the paper is clean after the bidet, of course), and done.
Used to be every other day but now it’s every day since I started I working out on a three-day on-on-off cycle.
I only shampoo like once a week though because otherwise my hair gets fried and/or starts massively overproducing oil which creates a vicious cycle of shampooing.
I shower once per day as a baseline. For me, I need at least one in the morning because I typically sweat at night, both in summer and winter. If nothing else, my hair will be like a bird's nest in the morning, and as I'd need to wet it to regain control of it anyway, it would be silly not to just have a shower. I also don't feel clean without that morning shower, and will feel self conscious about it if it's missed.
The climate in the UK is rarely hot, but we do get weeks at a time where it is both hot (27 °C - 30 °C) and humid. During these hot weeks, I'll often have another shower before bed too. I will also have another one if I go out for a run (often I mitigate this by running before my morning shower).
I will often have a second shower later in the day if I'm going out in the evening too.
As a counterpoint, my son hates showering. He begrudgingly has one each evening after school - but I suspect as he moves toward teenagehood, that he will also need a morning shower. On the occasions I insist on a second shower for whatever reason, it provokes moral outrage and disgust.
Once every 3 or so days (2 if I feel really icky), due to the cost of living crisis - the energy bills are too damn high.
Every day. I work a physical and dirty job, and I come home smelling less than rosy. I generally bathe just before bed unless I'm particularly filthy.
Twice a day, usually at night when I get home from work, and in the morning. Evening I do a "full scrub down" and in the morning it's more of a rinse and wake up. Works pretty well for me, I hate the feeling of "not being clean", and I hate human bodily odors. Even mine.
Sorry if that's TMI.
Once a day - work isn't the cleanest, and I sweat a lot. On low activity days I might skip a day... But that's basically just weekends
Pretty much on an as-needed basis. My workout schedule means that's usually every two days. Ngl, I did have a stumble last time I went on holiday; with my usual cues gone, I got lazy, and aromatic.
My wife handing me a towel was the reminder I needed. Whoops.
I shower every night because I hate sleeping dirty. If I'm going into the office or another activity that involves being around a lot of people I'll also shower in the morning.
It was always every day, until a year ago. We, as a family, decided it’s better for the environment to cut down on that. Energy prices going through the roof also played a part, it’s definitely what triggered the conversation.
I’ve dealt with excessive sweating, called hyperhidrosis, all my life. But I’ve had a very successful treatment some years ago. Before, it wouldn’t have been possible to shower any less, but now I’m proud to say it’s going great with only showering once every 2-3 days.
Depends on the season and what I’m doing, but generally about every other day. I have super dry skin and hate lotion, so that’s been working fairly well. Just switched to trying out nicer bar soaps from plastic body wash bottles, and I’m using a goat milk based one that seems to be going a decent job on the hydration front.
Once a day, but I only wash my hair every 3-4 because it easily gets dry and frizzy after a wash.
At least once a day, sometimes more if I'm feeling especially rough or went on a bike ride.
Every 2-3 days on average. More if its really hot and I get sweaty.
I exercise every morning, and shower immediately afterwards. I will also shower again later in the day if I wind up doing something that makes me sweat again. I sweat a lot.
I work inside. I shower somewhere between daily and once every three days. This is fully contingent on how sweaty or gross I feel. I wash my hair every day though, and wash it in the sink if it's not a shower day.
Depends:
If I'm commuting on my bike: Daily.
If I'm not commuting on my bike but still need to go to the office: Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and as needed.
If I'm not commuting on my bike and don't need to go to the office: As needed, when I end up leaving the house.
Once per day in the morning. If I don't shower I make enough grease to lubricate an aircraft carrier, and I feel disgusting without a shower.
Daily during the workweek, then I usually skip one on Saturday.
I usually only shampoo and condition every other shower, which most often means Tues., Thurs., and Sun. are hair-washing days. My dandruff and breakouts along my hairline have lessened dramatically since I went to the every other shower regimen. Don't know exactly why.
None of this is hard and fast though. I'll shower and shampoo twice in a day if I feel like it.
Between 2-4 times per day. I go to the gym a lot (often 3x/day), and I don’t want to stink when I’m training with people so I have to shower before the gym, but I sometimes sweat out about 2-4 lbs of water at the gym so I absolutely need to shower afterwards.
I shower once a day in the week and usually have a long peaceful bath on the weekend, sometimes skipping a weekend day when it's not too warm and I haven't had much activity
Once a day in the evening; getting in bed without taking a shower feels kinda gross and makes my morning prep take less time. I'm bald so showers are pretty quick, 5-10 minutes depending on if I have to shave or not.
I'm a little weird. And I shower twice per day, in the morning and at night. My kids shower at least every other day (if they'd do it without argument, I'd have them shower every day). ngl I'm a little grossed out when I learn someone doesn't shower relatively frequently, but generally don't care much besides not wanting to smell or touch them (or things they've touched).
Usually once a day, in the evenings either after the gym or if I don't workout, then before I go to bed. If I don't workout and it gets to be super late, I'll make up for it in the morning.
Prior to the pandemic I showered every morning. I was commuting into the office every day and found it was a nice way to wake up. It became a habit so I'd shower in the mornings on weekends, too.
Since the pandemic, and now that I work from home 100% of the time, I find that I shower every other day, usually in the evening. I'm not a morning person so I prefer to sleep in and shower/bathe before bed as a way of unwinding.
Every day. It's part of turning my brain on each morning (except for when I delay the shower until the afternoon to accommodate exercise). When I lived by the ocean, often twice a day: once in the morning to wake up and once before dinner to rinse off the seawater after swimming.
Every day in the morning. I also shampoo and condition my hair every time. I know many people think that is way too often to wash hair. I have tried going longer without washing and it just does not work for me at all.
I think a general guideline should be to shower every other day in general. You should shower more if you get really gross for whatever reason (exercise, bonfire, etc) and if you shower less, you should ultimately cross your T's and dot your I's so that you're as clean as someone who showers every other day. Also, don't shower for too long
I live in Florida so, unless I don't leave the house at all, I shower every day.
Twice every day, at the morning just after getting off bed and one at night after work or just before dinner. Also if there is any event in the afternoon I take a shower to get dressed. (btw brazil here)
When I worked in an office: every day, in the morning (first thing), usually no shower at night.
Now that I work from home, it's once a day, usually mid-day. I want to get back in the habit of doing it in the mornings since its a great way to start the day, but I got lazy and started waking up late.
In summer in NYC, with the heat, and especially with how hot the subways are, days where I go outside for a while are two shower days: once in the morning/mid-day, then once again at night after coming home, drenched in sweat.
This is completely different depending on factors. For a start, I'm in England, UK. The weather here ranges from -8c in winter to about 35c in summer.
I have to shower at least once a day. I opt for a night shower. My wife is the same except she opts for a morning shower.
In the summer months I will also have a full strip wash if I'm hot or a shower morning and night, sometimes a middle of the day cooling shower should I need it. That afternoon one isn't necessarily for hygiene reasons, just that I need to cool down as I run hot at the best of times.
Where people live dictates sweat quantities, plus types of jobs. My job means I sit most of the day, I'd imagine a bricklayer out in the sun would go two times a day for a shower, maybe even throw in a bath to relax those aching muscles.
Reading the replies, I didn't realize there were so many French people on Tildes. Just a little joke, don't kill me.
I typically shower once a day. Twice, if needed due to exercise, the weather, social engagement, etc. For the people saying every two or more days, are you all working from home? In Alaska? Are you all single? No housemates or other regular human contact?
And does no one else think it's very weird that energy costs can have such influence on people's personal hygiene? Not being able to afford to shower has to be peak late stage capitalism. Even so, to me it would make more sense to change how you clean yourself (shorter showers, lower temperatures, turning the water off while lathering, baths instead of showers, even using a scoop and pail instead) rather than how often.
Don't get me wrong, when I worked from home I could go a few days without a shower if I got lazy because I wasn't leaving my place, so I get it. I recognize my own laziness there though.
Honestly, between 3-4 days. Generally, I'm not terribly stinky; my antiperspirant keeps me smelling ok and my bidet keeps down under clean and smell free, so I generally only shower when my hair starts to ick me out or the front part of my southern reaches looks or smells nasty.
If I'm doing physically demanding things day in and out, I'll shower more, but generally I don't get super sweaty.
I shower once a day since the weather is usually pretty mild where I live now. When I went to university in Illinois, I'd shower twice a day both in the summer and winter. In the summer, showering multiple times a day felt necessary because the sweat would just make me feel gross and sticky. In the winter, it was a nice way of just relaxing and warming up before I went to sleep. I know it's not the healthiest for my skin but man did it feel good.
I live in the American south so I shower everyday, The humidity makes the decision for me. I grew up in the Sonoran desert and the heat there is bad but the humidity here is unbelievable - some days it feels like you took a shower while wearing your clothes.
I shower every morning. I will shower again after workouts on gym days.
I like in the American northeast.
I think everyone should bathe at least once a day.
Every morning since my hair turns to oil overnight. So it's either shower or look like I just smeared oil in my hair. If I do something that makes me sweat too much I'll take a shower at the end of the day too.
Depends on the time of year. In the summer It's usually every day, because I sweat a lot.
In the winter I'll go a day or sometimes two between showers.
Every other night.
Like a lot of other people here, I'm a laborer, so I shower after work. My particular job has skewed my sense of what "dirty" is to the point that I simply don't feel a need to shower unless I have a particular reason to.
I do change my shirt and unders on a daily basis though
I shower every day for a while, and then every couple days for a while, it also depends how death I get
I had depression in 2011andwent 3 or 4months with out showering once, I had these huge pimple to devolope behind my ears, and I had a dog wedge its face In to my crotch once, I must have smelt smelly to it, lmao
I shower every night, but avoid soap on most of my body. I use a body wash on my navel and perianal regions, Cetaphil on my neck/face/ears, and regular shampoo on my scalp (which has always been oily.)
If I'm not working out, water and friction is sufficient to remove perspiration and control everyday odors. Underarm deodorant in the morning (not antiperspirant) is sufficient to prevent the usual BO.
Why strip the oils from your skin if you're just going to have to put them back in with lotion, at great expense? My skin has never been healthier.
I shower once a day on my two days off and twice on all of my five workdays. Once before and once after. I work at a gym so I have pick up weights people leave plus going around and cleaning/maintaining the entire 40,000 square foot building. Lots of potential for sweating.
On my days off I'll do any chores and grasscutting etc then shower and be good for the day. I hate feeling dirty so this system hasn't failed me yet.
Between once and twice a day to every other day on average. I also regularly take baths if I have the option of a nice big tub. I don't like feeling dirty and I find that I do if I'm not showering often. I'm not terribly smelly as a human being so I could get away with longer time between but I'll feel the difference. I also mainly just use soap for the really important bits. I definitely shower more if I'm sharing a bed with someone than when it's just me. I also have fairly naturally oily hair and since it's quite long these days I have to wash it every day or so or it will be noticeably greasy. When it's short I can get away with washing it twice a week or so.
I shower once a day for most of the year when it isn't cold or overcast but in winter, when temperatures drop beneath 15 degrees Celsius I often shower once every 2 or even 3 days in a cold front because I'm not very physically active and won't really sweat in cold weather unless I do some more serious physical activity than the typical walking to the bus stop and then to my classroom. In summer I really feel the need to shower because it can reach 30 degrees where I live and I can sweat even at home while doing nothing, but I still don't do it more than once a day out of habit honestly.
In the summer, I'll shower daily as it's really hot and humid here. I'm sweaty and greasy by mid-day. Sometimes, I'll jump in a second time for a quick, cold water rinse if I'm feeling particularly gross.
In the winter, closer to every other day, sometimes 2-3 days if I've been particularly inactive and haven't left the house.
Spring and Autumn are very much "when I feel I need to shower", but generally no less than every 2 days.
I get that regularly showering is a cultural thing but anyone who's had to give a body search on a dude who smells like a four day salty nut sack understands that cleanliness really is next to godliness.
That said, there's levels for showering too. A day with minimal activity? Hop in, rinse off, hop out. Don't touch the hair. Maybe 45 seconds total. Got a little sweaty but washed my hair yesterday? In, quick soap and rinse, out. No more than a minute, really. The longest showers are when I shampoo and condition but, as I started above, those are like 3 minutes long. 5 if I'm feeling lazy.
Sometimes I'll shower in the morning, sometimes at night. Really just depends on how sticky I feel.
Once a day. I went to showering twice a day this summer, but then I learned that it might be bad for your skin, so I went back to showering once a day (and maybe a second time with just water, without soap)
If someone asks me in person I'd say 4-5 times per week. In reality it's probably closer to every 2-5 days. More in the summer, less in the winter. I've asked around a lot and I've (almost) never been told I smell, even if I get pretty sweaty. 5 days is pushing it, this is kinda gross but I've found my testicle area starts to hurt around day 5 of no shower, the hair gets all like matted with sweat and grime and it will feel like it's getting pulled when I walk and I'll develop a minor rash. Ideally I'd like to shower every 2-3 days, but I don't enjoy showering and it just feels like a time waste if I don't feel gross or smell gross.
Other than the ball thing my hair is usually what causes me to shower. It gets oily, I've found 1-2 days after showering it looks best, then it gets increasingly worse.
How I love Tildes, I mean you can have a serious conversation about showering, a topic nobody will bring up out of politeness or even interest.
As for myself and showering, if I'm not heading out at all, I'd do the shower once in 2-3 days until I find myself smelling bad. Showering too often rids us of our natural odour which isn't necessarily as off-putting without sweat. It sounds weird but people I've been intimate with have mentioned that they like my 'smell'.
I live in the tropics but I'm also usually indoors in a cool air-conditioned room. And I luckily have that Asian gene that reduces body odor 😂 so I can get away with not showering for a few days, or wearing clothes several times without washing. My hair can get greasy though, so I prefer to shower at least every other day. (The greasiness was greatly reduced though when I switched to a silicone-free clarifying shampoo, yay!)
Handwashing is a different story, I'm a chronic handwasher who needs to wash their hands sooo many times every day, after touching anything that I feel is "dirty" (doorknobs, money, anything that's been on the floor, etc), before and after eating, etc.
Twice a day. Every morning so that I can start the day feeling fresh, and after I exercise - which is most days (recently that means an hour in the gym followed by an hour cycling outside). I don't sweat a ton and live in a very mild climate, but I don't want to be less than clean at any given time. As far as wastefulness goes - I don't generally take tremendously long showers. It only takes a few minutes to get clean. I remember people telling me they'd take 30-40 minute showers. If you do that every other day it's less wasteful to take two 5 minute showers per day.
I also just generally enjoy the experience of bathing, so wouldn't want to miss out on it.
Every day. Sometimes twice a day if I get sweaty.
Nearly every morning. I feel like my body produces more sweat and oil at night, so if I don't shower in the morning (or at least before I leave the house), then I'll feel grimy all day.
Twice a day - after waking and before going to bed.
4 or 5 times a day. It's hot here.
Every morning after going to the bathroom. I'm a creature of routine and habit.
If I've exerted myself or for whatever reason have become sweaty or stinky I'll shower again. Sometimes if particularly hot I'll shower using Dr Bronners peppermint soap all over my body and that quickly helps give me the wonderful sensation of cold. Only for summers. Then the cats go crazy and violently lick me.
2-3 times a week. I go to the swimming pool so that's where I shower. I don't use shampoo so hair looks crispy all the time, even after 3 days. I also shower whenever I'm going out, if I did not go swimming that day. I feel clean and don't sweat much, so that's fine for me.
Every day. Y'all are nasty.
I bathe strictly two days a week. I hate the sensation of water droplets splashing on my skin, so the way I bathe has evolved over the years to minimize that happening:
I used to go on more days without bathing, but my partner did not like how I'd start smelling, so we came up with a schedule that accommodates both my need to minimize unpleasant experience and his need to minimize unpleasant experience.
Daily. My apartment gets warm in Southern California here, and not too cold in winter. I start to smell funny after one day, and itch/get oily quickly. I shower at night, or if I'm going into an office for work in the morning before I leave.
I don't worry about pooping throughout the day because a bidet keeps my hind clean until I shower at night. Just spritz, dry (ensuring the paper is clean after the bidet, of course), and done.
Used to be every other day but now it’s every day since I started I working out on a three-day on-on-off cycle.
I only shampoo like once a week though because otherwise my hair gets fried and/or starts massively overproducing oil which creates a vicious cycle of shampooing.