Washing Hair In The Kitchen Sink

Lee

Lee

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Not to mention other body parts, Not me, but someone told me they do this all the time.

We had got on the discussion of water bills so this is how it came up.

They claim you use a lot less water using the sink rather than taking a shower and they just kind of wash up hair and stuff in the sink and only shower twice a week.

What do you think of this?

p.s. - I am not gonna try it.
 

My aunt used to bathe her children with a bucket of water set inside the tub. The kids would stand with one foot in the bucket as she would wash them all over and then pour the water over them to rinse. Each kid got a fresh bucket of water so it was probably cleaner than the two kids at a time thing my mother did. I thought it was kind of clever.

The kitchen sink? No.

For a few months after I broke my leg I was required to take sponge baths in the bathroom sink. No matter how much water I used and how much of a splashy mess I made on the floor, I never felt clean.


My husband thinks two showers a week are enough. I think he's wrong. I shower daily and I think everyone should.

We should have a poll on this!
 
Nope. No thank you.

I’ll happily pay a bit extra for more shower water.

That said, I have a client who will occasionally do this. She’ll dress to go somewhere, decide she doesn’t like the way her hair looks, and will flip her hair over the kitchen sink and wash it, still fully dressed for her outing, sometimes even with her makeup on!!

She has a bottle of her shampoo and conditioner under the sink just for this habit! She has very fine hair and it’s thin on her head, so sometimes it just won’t style right and lays limp if it’s not squeaky clean. It doesn’t take long to wash it and dry it.
 

No never washed in the kitchen sink as an adult , but when I was a young teen.. we only had one bathroom for 6 of us.. so we couldn't always get in when we needed , so occasionally my sisters and I would wash our hair in the kitchen sink...haven't done that since then... can't imagine washing a whole body in the sink..
 
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This was a normal thing for my Mom, she never showered it was always a bath with a few inches of water. She would bath and then come out to wash her hair in the kitchen sink. She was terrified of water, she never learned to swim and was afraid of drowning. When she came to live with me it got to the point she could not get out of the tub even with my help. I got her a shower chair and installed a hand held shower head. From that point I bathed her and washed her hair. I had to be careful not to let the water go over her face.

Now that I am no longer out in the world I shower every other day. There are times that I do wash my hair in kitchen sink when I have a terrible case of bed head. I also bath my two little dogs in the kitchen sink as doing it in the tub is too hard on me now. I just bleach everything down after their baths.
 
When I was a kid, we were all washed in the kitchen sink (we never had a bathroom), but periodically a galvanised tub was dragged into the house and filled with hot water and we all got a good scrubbing, then, when we had all been put to bed, the tub was emptied and again filled with fresh clean water for mum to soak in by the fire while she listened to the wireless. Later, when Dad got home, he would have a soak in the tub too,
I've no idea what Mum and Dad did after that. 😊
 
When we were kids our parents used to bath us all in one tub and I was always last after my two oldest siblings. Yuk! It was gross. 🤐

I never wash my hair in the sink . It doesn’t work for me. There’s no way to rinse all the shampoo out . Plus you are face down instead of face up like you’d be at the hair dressers. Not that I go to the hair dressers but at least those sinks are higher up so the shampoo and conditioner rinses clean.

I think a lot depends on how much hair you have and how big your sink is.
 
I don't take showers, I take baths. So yeah, on occasion I do shampoo my hair in the kitchen sink. It's no biggie. I don't wash any other body parts there.;)
 
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It was quite common for people our parents age to wash their hair in the sink - kitchen or bathroom. I don’t think they used or had showers.

Sometimes a medical procedure has precluded use of the shower. I still washed my hair every day, but never felt totally clean.
 
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My aunt used to bathe her children with a bucket of water set inside the tub. The kids would stand with one foot in the bucket as she would wash them all over and then pour the water over them to rinse. Each kid got a fresh bucket of water so it was probably cleaner than the two kids at a time thing my mother did. I thought it was kind of clever.

The kitchen sink? No.

For a few months after I broke my leg I was required to take sponge baths in the bathroom sink. No matter how much water I used and how much of a splashy mess I made on the floor, I never felt clean.


My husband thinks two showers a week are enough. I think he's wrong. I shower daily and I think everyone should.

We should have a poll on this!
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LOL - "Two showers a week." For me, it's two showers a day.
 
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I wouldn't be too shocked.

On non-shower days, I have a sponge bath at the bathroom sink, not the kitchen sink. I'd use the kitchen sink if I had to, but I've never had to. In my experience, I'm more likely to have access to a bathroom than a kitchen.

I've lived in many different situations, including ones where I had to wash dishes in the shared bathroom. When I was a child, small children were bathed in the kitchen sink. You do what you have to do.

The reason I don't shower every day is because I have to squeegee and wipe down the tub enclosure every time. Plus the caulking is coming off.
 
I bathe my 2 little dogs in the kitchen sink. I like to shower. Bending my neck over a sink would be painful with my neck injury.
 
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My sister used to wash her hair in beer, but she had to be sneaky about it because our parents were tea-totalers.
 

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