I heard an American saying that Brazilians take a lot of showers, we take around two showers (not counting the times we just go in the shower to cool off, those who go to the gym, swim, etc. take more), here even in the cold we shower when we go out. I discovered that some Americans don't take more than 1 shower a day and sometimes they don't take a shower every day or they don't shower after going to the pool (here it's practically mandatory to shower after going to the pool), is this normal? How many times a week do you wash your hair?


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  2. Once a day. But back when I worked in a brewery it was twice a day. Once before work and once after work. Cops fun fact don’t like people who smell like alcohol and blow a 0 on the breath analyzer.

  3. One a day, sometimes twice if I feel gross or worked out or something. I shampoo my hair every time I shower.

  4. I shower every morning before work and wash my hair every morning.

    Depends on the pool. If I swim in the ocean, lake, river, or public pool, I’ll shower afterwards every time. If I swim in a private/residential pool, I normally won’t shower afterwards.

  6. I shower 1 – 2 times a day, depending on the weather and what I’ve done that day.

  7. Standard in the US is once a day. But it’s a big, diverse country. Some people shower more, some less. Also depends on climate and time of year. I take more showers in the summer for sure.

  8. Once a day before bed.

    I shower before and after the pool. It is a rule of most gyms to at least shower before, and is very rude not to do so. 

    I wash my hair 3 times a week. 

    We have multiple climates across the country, so the answer will vary by state, but where I live we don’t need as frequent of showers, and it is seen as inappropriate to waste fresh water to do so more often than needed.

  9. I shower every night before dinner/bed no matter what. Always washing my hair.

    I also shower after I work out if it’s not right before dinner.

    It usually works out to being 9-10 showers a week.

  10. I shower/bathe every 2-3 days. Unless I have something planned then I just bathe morning of.

  13. You’re going to find a lot of variance in this. We have a lot of different climates, attitudes, and cultures.

    Showering and washing your hair daily is very typical among most men. Women may not wash their hair as frequently.

    Anyone who’s working out, going swimming, or participating in other athletic endeavors is almost certainly going to shower before/after, depending on the sport.

  15. I’ll shower ever 1-2 days washing my body depending if i worked out or worked that day (hospital), i wash my hair every 4 days

  16. I shower once every 2-3 days, or when I’m dirty/smelly.

    Example: I shower when I get home from work but if I do chores and get sweaty later, I’ll shower again.

  17. At a minimum daily, typically in the morning. If I’ve worked in my office all day, I may not shower again at night, but if I do yardwork, workout, or work on one of our job sites with our crew where I will sweat or actually dirty, I will shower again. I wash my hair literally every time I shower. I would say as a standard I probably shower 8 times a week, there’s almost always at least one day where I will shower twice. When going to a pool, I may not shower immediately but I will for sure shower before going to bed or going back out for dinner or something.

  18. Usually once a day but not always. I’m outdoors a lot, sometimes days at a time so it’s common to not shower for days at a time. I’ve camped outside for a week and wow I was stanky at that point.

  19. I shower once a day and usually wash my hair each time. But I live in New Hampshire. It’s quite dry here and the temperature rarely gets above 85.

    Brazilians almost certainly take more showers just because it’s hotter and more humid than many places in America. Also, Americans probably spend more time in air conditioned spaces (their cars, the office, etc.) than Brazilians.

  20. All of my showers are in the US lol

    How many times I shower in a day or even a week depends on what I do and how I’m feeling. I strive for once a day, but often fall short due to chronic illnesses causing pain and my mental state not being very good. I’d say I actually have 3-4 showers most weeks, sometimes it’s as little as 2, but that’s not very often.

    At least in my area, you’re asked to shower immediately before going to the pool to help keep it clean. However, with people using the pool as their own personal bathroom, people should probably shower after, too. But I know a lot of people don’t.

    I wash my hair every time I shower. I’m aware that you shouldn’t do it every day, but as stated above I don’t shower every day.

  21. Once a day is typical, twice a day not unheard of, especially if working out/swimming or if you did something gross or if the weather was particularly bad

    So yeah, to us two a day as a baseline plus sometimes going in “to cool off” plus the extras for after work ou5 or swimming would sound like a lot haha

    Nothing wrong with it, pretty interesting cultural difference really.

  22. Once a day for me, hair gets washed every shower. I have an office job and the AC is works great both at home and at work as well as in the car so there really is no sweating going on during the day. There would be zero need for a mid-day “cool off” shower even when it is pushing 100f (38c)

    Only went in a pool twice this summer save for the week I was on vacation.
    I go to the gym immediately after waking up and shower there.

  23. Once a day plus more if you do something sweaty. We have air conditioning to cool off. I live in the south west which is mostly desert. Conserving water is a priority. Having body odor is pretty taboo here so everyone showered enough to keep from stinking.

  24. I shower two to three times a week. I don’t really sweat very much and don’t have an intensive job. I do shower if I’ve been in the water or after an intense workout, but I don’t swim very often anymore. When I was younger I used to shower every morning and some nights.

  25. My friend lives in North Carolina, in the summers she said she’d sometimes have about three different outfits for the day

  26. I shower twice per day most of the time. Sometimes if I’m not going out I’ll just shower once before bed. I can’t get into my bed dirty.

  31. Once per day unless I do something that requires another shower. Like yard work. Or coaching soccer.

  33. They rank the humidity in Florida by how many showers are required in a day. “Hey Bubba, it’s so sticky out there it looks like it’ll be a 3 shower day!”

  34. Every day.

    I would say showering more than once a day is abnormal in the majority of the world. Brazil is that odd man out. Showering multiple times is only for hot climates and people with dirty jobs.

  35. I try to skip a day every now and then just to give my skin a break. Showering daily can dry out my skin and I want to let the natural oils back in for a day. But typically once a day. More than once and I’d be itchy as all hell. Even if I used moisturizer. I got the dry “Irish” skin. lol

  36. Just like every other “what do Americans do” question, there are 340 million if us. We don’t all do the same thing.
    Some shower daily, some two or more times. Others less frequently, some take baths. Some have poor hygeine and rarely clean themselves.

  37. One when I wake up, one before I go to bed, and sometimes one midday depending on what I’m doing. I’m a stay-at-home dad. I’m often doing yard work and house work where I get gross.

  39. Every American I know says they shower daily. Every hair dresser I’ve met says we’re ruining our hair and should wash it every 3 days or so.

    I shower every other day because I have a kid and no free time. My husband will shower twice a day sometimes and it makes me mad. Waste of water

  40. It can really range from three times per week to twice a day. Depends on the person.

  41. You’re going to find some people shower daily and some people don’t, regardless of what country they live in. It seems kinda funny to suggest that your anecdotal observation that everyone in Brazil takes multiple showers a day is a bit absurd, because I can guarantee that is not always the case. Brazil is much warmer and more humid than the US in general, so it would make sense if a statistical uptick in shower frequency bears out in the stats, but the frequency is probably nowhere near as wide as you may be implying. Factors like poverty and mental illness can obviously greatly impact hygeine, which, sadly, are things that affect nearly all medium to large countries to some degree or another, with some regions worse than others.

    As for me, as an American, I generally shower once a day, myself, although to be honest, whilst in the midst of deep bipolar depression, drug use, and Covid isolation, showering became less of a daily priority. Thankfully, things are not as bad as they were, at least for me, as I’ve sought help.

  43. American, one shower a day. My wife, who works from home, either before she goes out to see people, which happens less than once a week, or when I tell her that she’s really stinky and needs to shower.

    I also shower at the gym – before going into the pool, and after I work out. Which should be three times a week, but I honestly haven’t been going for the past several years, unfortunately.

    It’s important to note, I think, that Rio de Janero hits 80 F/27 C degrees every day all throughout the year. For me, in Boston, we regularly hit 80 for two months out of the year. And almost all public places are air-conditioned so the actual temperature people are spending time in is 75 F /24 C or lower.

    We are probably sweating ten percent as much in Boston as someone in Rio is. During those summer months, if I’m working outside or not staying in air conditioned places, yeah, I’m showering both before going to work and after coming home. But it’s not necessary the rest of the time. Most days of the year, I don’t break a sweat at all. Perhaps that means I should be moving around more…

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