Maybe a bit personal but.....

[subaqua]

WTF is skin bend?

http://skinbends.com/

Decompression sickness , with the affects showing on the skin as mottling/rashes . A hot shower too soon after surfacing can cause it

 

[Globalti]

Gosh this is quite an illuminating thread. My belief is that older people are often not in the habit of bathing or showering, which is why they sometimes have a characteristic odour. Frequent showering is a very recent habit. In the 1970s soap manufacturers like Unilever would tell you that French people use less than half the soap that British and Germans use and only 30% of French people owned a toothbrush. Spain is nowadays a lead market for shower gels with good quality perfumes because the Spanish lifestyle and climate and increase in urban living means Spaniards are in the habit of showering twice or even thrice daily.

 

[postman]

Shower everyday and again if i have done any harder work,ie gardening painting.

 

[gbb]

Interestingly, despite bathing every day in the evening, when I was at my peak fitness, I'd do a 50 mile ride hard (a 'normal' distance then...oh I wish now ) then just change and carry on the day. My sweat doesnt (well the wife never complained) smell. I might sponge down the armpits but never felt the need to shower post ride.

 

[MarkF]

Every day, straight after my shift from which I am always a sweaty mess. Others just change out of their uniform into their clothes and go, I don't know how they can do that.

 

[Drago]

Gosh this is quite an illuminating thread. My belief is that older people are often not in the habit of bathing or showering, which is why they sometimes have a characteristic odour. Frequent showering is a very recent habit. In the 1970s soap manufacturers like Unilever would tell you that French people use less than half the soap that British and Germans use and only 30% of French people owned a toothbrush. Spain is nowadays a lead market for shower gels with good quality perfumes because the Spanish lifestyle and climate and increase in urban living means Spaniards are in the habit of showering twice or even thrice daily.

My ex Wife was Greek and would opine that the British custom of washing in a sink of water was disgusting. She would tell me that the Greeks would only do such a thing in running water, and thus avoid washing themselves with their own filth.

 

[gbb]

Gosh this is quite an illuminating thread. My belief is that older people are often not in the habit of bathing or showering, which is why they sometimes have a characteristic odour. Frequent showering is a very recent habit. In the 1970s soap manufacturers like Unilever would tell you that French people use less than half the soap that British and Germans use and only 30% of French people owned a toothbrush. Spain is nowadays a lead market for shower gels with good quality perfumes because the Spanish lifestyle and climate and increase in urban living means Spaniards are in the habit of showering twice or even thrice daily.

A leter generation perhaps. I'm 60 and showers /plentiful availability of hot water have been around most of my adult life and it's normal.
But as a kid, showers never were common and hot water was dependant on a coal fired back boiler (irregular) or a immersion heater (expensive back then)...plus parents that probably had it even harder and so were less likely to bath daily. I remember as a kid we'd get a weekly 'bath' in the kitchen sink. (Bearing in mind in the 60s and 70s we lived in military housing, not known then for their creature comforts)

For the very old generation, bathing once a week was probably quite normal.

 

[youngoldbloke]

A leter generation perhaps. I'm 60 and showers /plentiful availability of hot water have been around most of my adult life and it's normal.
But as a kid, showers never were common and hot water was dependant on a coal fired back boiler (irregular) or a immersion heater (expensive back then)...plus parents that probably had it even harder and so were less likely to bath daily. I remember as a kid we'd get a weekly 'bath' in the kitchen sink. (Bearing in mind in the 60s and 70s we lived in military housing, not known then for their creature comforts)

For the very old generation, bathing once a week was probably quite normal.

… I still remember the smell of towels scorching on the fireguard, while being bathed in the 'tin bath' in front of the living room coal fire - once a week, 1950s Birmingham. We did have a bathroom upstairs, but no central heating, and in the winter the rest of the house was like an icebox.

 

[Chris S]

I can't understand some people who shower at the end of the day and again in the morning.

They've been bonking all night

 

[screenman]

A leter generation perhaps. I'm 60 and showers /plentiful availability of hot water have been around most of my adult life and it's normal.
But as a kid, showers never were common and hot water was dependant on a coal fired back boiler (irregular) or a immersion heater (expensive back then)...plus parents that probably had it even harder and so were less likely to bath daily. I remember as a kid we'd get a weekly 'bath' in the kitchen sink. (Bearing in mind in the 60s and 70s we lived in military housing, not known then for their creature comforts)

For the very old generation, bathing once a week was probably quite normal.

63 here and despite the old times I would not consider going a day without a shower/bath. That despite living for a year in a halfway house with no bathroom and one shared toilet between 3 families, this was 1974/5

 

[screenman]

They've been bonking all night

Blimey, is it you who spends all the time listening in on me.

 

[Dave 123]

I can see where your ex is coming from @Drago . It’s just lying in your own dirty water. And, if you have a J. Arthur, what do you do with the jellyfish? (Did I just type that?)

I have that opinion about baths too. A bath for me was always a waste of time and water. I’d spend 10 minutes filling the thing up, then add more cold, then get in, wash me bits, then get out. I’m not one for wallowing and ‘relaxing ‘

These days we have 2 showers in the house and no bath. We calculated that we’d lived here for 6 years and between us we’d had about 6 baths.

 

[Drago]

I actually prefer a bath, but always shower in the interests of saving time.

 

[mudsticks]

I actually prefer a bath.

and my time is my own to waste as i choose

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I'm 62, Lovely Wife is 55 and we both shower every day.

We both prefer to shower in the evening before tea - neither of us would want to go to bed unshowered after a days activities.