Posted on 02/25/2015 12:21:22 PM PST by beaversmom
If cleanliness is next to godliness (which I doubt), then the following should also be true: the more you boast about it, the more suspect you are. Im amazed by the number of people who insist on telling me they take two showers a day, as if theyre the Mother Teresa of personal hygiene. What manner of grime are they washing away? Its hard not to think of Lady Macbeths frenzied attempts to scrub the blood from her hands. So when I read of a survey that stated 4 out of 5 British women dont shower every day, I applauded our common sense. If you live in a cold climate, arent a fishmonger and do little more arduous of a day than pop to Sainsburys, why waste all that water? As my granny would say, Youre just scrubbing off all your essential oils and replacing them with muck.
The compilers of the survey, however, seemed scandalised. And horrified by the admission from two thirds of women that they tumble in to bed with their faces still slap-coated. The reaction is hardly surprising, when you realise the data was collated on behalf of the skincare range Flint + Flint. Manufacturers of unguents cant flourish unless womankind is in a constant state of malodorous paranoia: lathering, toning and moisturising every last inch of their epidermis. Stubborn slatterns like me can halve their profits in an instant by simply going on soap strike.
But being grubby and proud is part of a British womans heritage. We are internationally famed for our insanitary ways. I was a guest once at a dinner party in California where the hostess was deploring the personal hygiene of her sons latest girlfriend. At which point a friend said gallantly, She cant be worse than Rowan...
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lol...She definitely had her superstitions and oddities passed down from a different time, but not into voodoo probably. She never got on a plane. She went to see them by train. My grandpa got to visit us here in the U.S. in the 80s. First time he ever got to be on a plane. I think he was quite in awe over it all and so were the relatives back home. And yes, he brought his English hygiene with him. I remember my mom buying him some deodorant. We had a heat-wave here in Colorado that summer. English people are NOT used to heat. He always wore a shirt, vest, tie and overcoat. 90 degree heat and his English modesty and style was out the window. I have pictures of him in his wife beater undershirt helping to wash my mom’s car. :)
yes that’s how we washed the dishes in New Zealand too...
I think those characteristics do get passed down in the DNA. Love your FR name, BTW.
Where we didn’t have running hot water we would put the soapy dishes in the drainer and then pour on a large hot teakettle full of water to rinse
lol...I had a Welsh aunt-in-law and couldn’t understand a word she was saying. The English weren’t as hard for me, but some of the accents do take some intent listening.
OCD...
Eh ???
“I take a bath once a month, whether I need it or not!”
Showering twice a day? It seems a bit obsessive.
Unless you’re spending your days mucking around in nastiness. Then it might make sense.
Thank you :)
Those genes do come in handy!
A person who lives in the country in a cold climate showering every other day is one thing, not bathing before getting on an airliner seems mental.
We will have to use imagination
Well, remove the filter from your imagination then! I’m smiling just remembering it!
I bet you are! Randy Dover/English girls! Who knew?
As a red-blooded hetero male, I find the scent of pheromone-rich female sweat to be intoxicating.
Like catnip! ;) I think there is something to that.
Consider that I am a lot older than most of you...
When we were little, we only washed our hair once a week, and we had to use a vinegar and water rinse to make sure we could get all the soap film out of our hair.
On a recent visit to my doc, he ordered a Vit. D level test to make sure I wasn’t deficient. Many of us elderly living in the northern states do not get enough.
He questioned me about my showering habits, and said that it wasn’t a good idea to shower too often, as it washed Vit. D off the skin. I was surprised.
So, there may be something to not lathering up every day, unless one has been plowing the north 40, or toiling away in the coal mine.
I do wonder about a lot of the chemicals that are in modern shampoos, lotions, and soaps. Could they be harmful to our overall health when used so frequently over a long period of time?
Definitely think there are good arguments on both sides.
Vinegar has so many wonderful uses...internally and externally.
Ick. Everybody’s armpits, butt, and genitals get funky after 24 hours, whether or not it is, as the writer claims, inconvenient to shower.
LOL
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