EDIT: okay, so it turns out that I misunderstood what an everything shower is. Now I know that most people are still washing their whole bodies every day.

And since people keep asking I’ll add it here too: yes, I do wash and condition my hair every day (double shampoo). I also use a sugar scrub to exfoliate every day and I shave (legs, pits, lady bits) most days of the week unless I’m in a hurry or feeling lazy, and I follow up with a full body skincare routine. My showers last under 30 minutes, it’s not an all day or multi-hour thing for me. No, I do not think my showers are excessive. Yes, I do all of this and lather with my favorite smelling lotion even when I’m not leaving the house. My hair and skin are super healthy.

And stop telling me that it’s not good for my hair/scalp to wash it everyday and that I can train my scalp to produce less oil. That is a dangerous myth that can lead to infections, fungal growth, and dandruff. Before I knew it was a myth I tried to “train” my body to produce less oil but not washing it as often and it damaged my hair. I had more hair loss, horrible breakage and split ends, and it no, it never produced less oil, so it looked nasty. Now that I went back to daily washes, it’s super healthy, long, and beautiful. Just because you can’t wash your hair everyday it does not mean that no one should.

ORIGINAL POST:

I take “everything showers” every day, that’s how I was raised and I don’t feel clean if I don’t actually clean all of me. I heard the term “everything shower” for the first time just a couple of years ago and since then I hear people ask what they do for their everything showers all the time. I’ve never heard anyone actually explain what the alternatives are though.

So, if you don’t wash everything, what ARE you washing? How do you decide what you’re going to wash that day? Did you always take showers like this or did you start doing it after you heard the term “everything shower”? If you didn’t always do it but now you do, why?

Also, I don’t want this to sound insensitive or mean or anything, I just genuinely have no idea and I’m curious, but people who work out daily but don’t wash their hair daily: does your hair not stink? Does it not feel gross/get itchy from letting your dry sweat stay in your hair?