1. How often do you typically shower/bath?
In work from home mode I go about two or so days between showering. In work in the office mode everyday.
So I guess four or five times a week.
2. Do you prefer showering or taking a bath?
Showers. I have a great shower and it has a steam room setting on the shower head that makes the whole process pretty invigorating.
3. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without a shower/bath?
In the army on an assignment went 6 days. I was pretty ripe.
4. What’s your favorite personal hygiene product?
My razor and the silicone strop I use to sharpen it. I can usually go about 14 or months between disposable razor blades.
5. Do you shave your legs and/or beard? If so, how often?
I trim my beard about every two weeks. I tried to grow it out to a big bushy beard during quarantine but it drove me crazy and I had to trim it back.
1) Every other da during the work week, since I work at home. If going out into the wild public world, I shower daily.
2) Shower all the way. I haven’t done a tub bath more than once in a blue moon since childhood.
3) Camping is usually the long stints of up to 4 or 5 days, but that usually includes a lake nearby, so I do use lake water to replace the sweaty campfire scum with lake scum.
4) MI do love my Tushy bidet. I love it som much I have one on multiple toilets. A consistently washed asshole is a happy asshole. And I am a happy asshole…I mean have a happy assh…oh you get it.
5) I trim my beard and mustache when it gets long enough that I start pulling it in when I eat and it hurts.
1) Every single day. Sometimes twice a day. The sweating in Florida is no joke.
2) I’m a fucking adult I’ll cry in the shower thank you very much!
3) On various camping adventures. I think the longest was 13 days. It was intentional and each of us packed a change of clothing and the $5 for the showers at the exit campground. All campers showered and the trip clothing ceremonially burned the night before.
4) I have none. I really want to get a bidet but for now I use the total body upright bidet when at home or a safe space.
5) I shave my head once a week. Or for a special occasion.
1. For about two years I had a nasty bout of eczema, so my bathing habits depended on how inflamed and angry my skin was on any given day. I’m grateful that it has calmed down so I’m back to showering daily.
2. I hate baths. As one of my treatments for eczema, I took baths in highly chlorinated water for 10 minutes every other day. I would set a timer and put on music to make the minutes pass. I don’t miss baths or the smell of chlorine, nor do my lungs miss the bleach fumes.
3. Maybe three days while traveling. I’m very much an indoors guy so I can’t survive long without grooming.
4. As a longtime proponent of Korean beauty secrets, I’d say a Clarisonic facial brush or my Gugug facial spatula. The Clarisonic deep cleans and exfoliates. The spatula lifts out blackheads and massages in moisturizer.
5. Every week or so I hit it with a #3 guard.