Hygiene

[Blah11]

Amelie gets bathed every other day too but if i missed 2 days out i dont think she'd suffer for it. I wash my hair every 3-4 days and shower everyday

I have found somebody else who doesn't wash their hair everyday. Hallelujah!!! I am mixed race and got my dads hair which used to be a very hard to manage afro My hair needs my natural essential oils and if I wash my hair daily it's strips my head of these and makes it soooooooo dry! Plus the fact it takes me 2 and a half hours to wash, condition, dry and straighten my hair. Where would I find the time to do that everyday I'm sure my friends think I'm weird not washing my hair everyday

haha, im just lazy really although my hair cond. has improved soo much since i stopped washing it so often! Besides i have to wear it back for work everyday anyway

 

[Blah11]

Well now I'm feeling like a mink. I shower every 2-3 days and wash my hair then (I don't smell BTW). My kids normally get a bath once a week, but I'm thinking of upping it to twice a week as their hair's getting long enough to notice that it's needing washed.

It's OK Marley ... I'm feeling like a mink too LOL . I have a full strip wash twice a day, every day (hand basin of water, flannel and soap), a bath twice a week (bath water is usually shared, although I get it first ) and I wash my hair once a week as it's very long, very thick and worn in a bun most of the time .... if I wash it too often it just goes dry and completely crazy

Kaylum has a bath every 2 days or so - and he has those in his bath, which is a washing up bowl LOL

I don't smell either Hon

i find a strip wash at the basin takes just as long or even longer than going in a shower

 

[polo_princess]

I take a bath every other day and so does Brooke, OH baths everyday because he gets so mucky from his job. We dont have a shower anymore but if we did, then OH would be in it about 10 friggin times a day.

I dont really see the need to fill up a mahoosive bath every single day when a wash in the sink is perfectly sufficient, so we alternate it.

 

[TattiesMum]

Well now I'm feeling like a mink. I shower every 2-3 days and wash my hair then (I don't smell BTW). My kids normally get a bath once a week, but I'm thinking of upping it to twice a week as their hair's getting long enough to notice that it's needing washed.

It's OK Marley ... I'm feeling like a mink too LOL . I have a full strip wash twice a day, every day (hand basin of water, flannel and soap), a bath twice a week (bath water is usually shared, although I get it first ) and I wash my hair once a week as it's very long, very thick and worn in a bun most of the time .... if I wash it too often it just goes dry and completely crazy

Kaylum has a bath every 2 days or so - and he has those in his bath, which is a washing up bowl LOL

I don't smell either Hon

i find a strip wash at the basin takes just as long or even longer than going in a shower

LOL ... It really does but we don't have a shower, just a bath

 

[ellismum]

I wish I didn't have to wash my hair everyday. I look like doc from back to the future in the morning and no amount of product gets it down! So I shower in the morning and my oh has a bath in the evening when he gets in as he has a manual job and stinks!! Ellis is bathed daily but he gets in with OH.

 

[Feltzy]

Me, Evie and Alfie all bath together every other day and I shower in between.

I'm a clean freak too though, I suppose when you look at the bigger picture you could say we are being selfish, especially when there are countries out there who would love to have water as clean as our bath water just to drink, never mind clean themselves in. I never thought about the prospect of fresh water running out but I was watching a documentary the other day and apparently one day it will because we are using too much, I don't know how true that is though but its a scary prospect.

 

[Emz1982_in_uk]

I much prefer showers. The thought of wallowing in my own filth is a

 

[PeanutBean]

Climate change IS happening and IS caused by people. Geological change over hundred of thousands of years us totally different to the 150 years or so of steady increase we've had since the industrial revolution. I'm very conscious about the environment but I'm also a bit greasy and smelly so I shower every morning but very very rarely have baths. Byron has a bath every day and I constantly feel guilty about the water. It'll be better when there are two in there! Byron's always filthy after nursery and routinely rubs food in his hair so needs the cleaning. I only use Ecover to clean so nothing harmful there and don't clean the bathroom more often than once a week. We are so wasteful if water in the UK. There are loads of water saving devices you can get. The worst thing we do is use clean water to flush the toilet. It's insane! We should use collected rainwater to do it. All those hosepipe happy people too. I rarely water my garden but always use a can and only use buckets to wash the car which I do about once a year. (Sorry PP! )

 

[pink.crazy]

hahaha this is funny

 

[winegums]

Climate change IS happening and IS caused by people. Geological change over hundred of thousands of years us totally different to the 150 years or so of steady increase we've had since the industrial revolution. I'm very conscious about the environment but I'm also a bit greasy and smelly so I shower every morning but very very rarely have baths. Byron has a bath every day and I constantly feel guilty about the water. It'll be better when there are two in there! Byron's always filthy after nursery and routinely rubs food in his hair so needs the cleaning. I only use Ecover to clean so nothing harmful there and don't clean the bathroom more often than once a week. We are so wasteful if water in the UK. There are loads of water saving devices you can get. The worst thing we do is use clean water to flush the toilet. It's insane! We should use collected rainwater to do it. All those hosepipe happy people too. I rarely water my garden but always use a can and only use buckets to wash the car which I do about once a year. (Sorry PP! )

i do not see the need to water the garden in the uk.... if anything we should be trying to protect it from the amount of rain we get over here LOL

we also have one of those massive barrel things in our garden that collects all the rainwater from these open pipe things we have so we can use that if we ever need water outside

 

[PeanutBean]

In the NW for sure I don't need to water the garden. My neighbour had her hosepipe out right before the ban this summer, I was dying to catch her and report her! I guess in other areas, East Anglia, you might want to but really we should get more drought tolerant plants if we're that bothered. I would never water my lawn, no matter how yellow. (Except when it was new turf...)

 

[cherryglitter]

I shower everyday and wash my hair! Do a load of washing every one to two days. I bath Jake every night but he does share the bath with OH so I guess that's a bonus haha!
xx

 

[AppleBlossom]

I take a bath every other day and so does Brooke, OH baths everyday because he gets so mucky from his job. We dont have a shower anymore but if we did, then OH would be in it about 10 friggin times a day.

I dont really see the need to fill up a mahoosive bath every single day when a wash in the sink is perfectly sufficient, so we alternate it.

I do the same atm as my shower is bust. Grace baths with me to save on water. I wash my hair every other day, same with Grace. On the day I don't go in the bath I just use the sink

 

[HannahsMummy]

I am very concious of the amount of water and also detergents that I use. We live in a bungalow, so we are able to use rainwater to flush our toilet. We just have a water butt on the outside wall of our bathroom that collects water from the gutters and pipes through to the toilet cistern. If that runs out then I can switch it over to mains water. Hannah baths every other day, but if she has got a bit mucky at nursery or if its a hot day then I will give her a quick strip wash before she puts her PJs on.
I try not to use too much in the way of detergents, but with a toddler running around you really do have to make sure things are clean. I would feel terrible if my daughter was ill because I hadn't cleaned something properly.
With clothes, Hannah is a fairly clean and tidy child so she doesn't really spill any food or anything We usually get 2 or 3 wears out of her clothes before they need a wash, and then I only use 1 tablet instead of 2. A lot of the detergent manufacturers tell you to use a lot more than you really need so that you run out quicker and have to buy more

 

[mandy81]

Me and the kiddies got a shower every other day, plus the kids get a bath once a week. (i'm just to lazy to bath them all the time a shower is quicker) lol

I can't bath Dylan every night because he get's very day skin on his little face if I do, both my kids get a good wash every night before bed

 

[NuKe]

I shower every other day, have a sink wash the days in between (due to water wastage!) but Pops gets a bath every night- reason being she is usually covered in food!! Who knew BLW was bad for the enviornment?!?!

 

[aly888]

Me and OH shower every morning. I just can't wake up without a shower! And OH sometimes has a shower in the evenings too (coz of work). LO gets bathed every other day! As for the washing, you can't really cut back on that surely? if your clothes are dirty then they are dirty. Or are they saying you should wear dirty clothes?

We do our bit anyway by sharing the shower at the weekend although, they probably take about three times as long

Ooh, and I have a water butt for watering the garden/plants Although we don't have much garden to water!!

 

[Serene123]

I don't water the garden. I do waste water though. I will try and stop

 

[Eala]

One thing I've thought about after reading this thread...

Which is worse, "wasting" water, or contributing to landfill/large carbon footprint? I'm thinking in terms of reusable nappies. Is it each nappy, or each pack of sposies which takes a cup of crude oil to make? Plus the time it takes each nappy to degrade. Yet by turning on our washing machine to wash our reusables, we're using water, which apparently is a no-no too?

I sometimes feel like you can't win for losing...

 

[Serene123]

On the subject of reusable nappies, I'm purchasing my first ones tonight