Cold showers and why you should do it.

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I always 'rinse' my hair with cold water. I'm still on the no shampoo/soap regimen so that explains the quotation marks. But I have to say it does seem to be an improvement, i.e: hair is less dry. I think I will try showering with cold water for a couple of minutes at the end like the mentioned James Bond/Scottish shower tomorrow morning.
 
Pikmindictator said:
I always 'rinse' my hair with cold water. I'm still on the no shampoo/soap regimen so that explains the quotation marks. But I have to say it does seem to be an improvement, i.e: hair is less dry. I think I will try showering with cold water for a couple of minutes at the end like the mentioned James Bond/Scottish shower tomorrow morning.
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How's the greasiness of hair? I wouldn't mind seeing a pic (just cover your face or something).
 
MWS Natural said:
I hate when the shower makes me sneeze like crazy. No idea what causes this.
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Is your house really dry? Maybe the moisture is flooding those membranes that were damaged overnight by breathing in said dry air?
 
MWS Natural said:
I hate when the shower makes me sneeze like crazy. No idea what causes this.
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Some people sneeze reflexively at large changes in temperature, usually going from cool to warm, but sometimes the other way as well. It could also be the humidity.
 
I take a warm/hot shower first, turn it down a bit when I'm getting ready to wash my hair. After the shower, I use moisturizer on my face and splash cold water on it to lock in the moisture giving my face a smooth sexy look that the ladies adore. I pat it dry with a towel.

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I took a hot -> cold shower tonight. I have a pretty good resistance to cold. I set the shower to a pretty frigid temperature. I felt pretty good and energetic afterward.

To all of the people saying "Fuck no I won't do it in the winter", I actually didn't feel that cold getting out of the shower. Your body actually starts the process to warm you up when you take a cold shower. Getting out of a hot shower into a cold room would actually be the worst. It's like this situation, which I fucking hate, when you brave the cold weather without a jacket or anything special on and then you enter a building where they have the heat jacked up.
 
Started doing the warm to cold shower yesterday/today. It kinda works. I don't want to go all the way cold yet, but I can see the appeal now.
 
jaxword said:
How's the greasiness of hair? I wouldn't mind seeing a pic (just cover your face or something).
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Greasiness was quite severe the first couple of weeks. Now i would say that it is slightly greasier than when I was using shampoo, but not nearly as bad as those first weeks.
 
Once, our boiler was broken for ~3 weeks, so we didn't have hot water. This was in winter. Having to wake up at 6 am every morning, then taking an ice cold shower, was fucking brutal.
 
Hot -> cold shower (to get blood flowing to the skin, open pores, clean, then get blood flowing back to organs and close skin) then exiting the shower into a comfortable warm thanks to a radiator in the bathroom.

feels good man
 
I didn't have the heat on last and woke up practically frozen this morning. I took a 20 minute steaming hot shower...there's no way I could take any cold this morning.
 
Just tried it this morning. It was hard for me to use my shower luffa since it felt like it was scraping my skin. Also I'm still really cold. :S

I'm totally going to continue doing this in the morning until it gets too cold in the winter.
 
My Dad used to make me take ice cold showers.

Outside.

I've been unable to even entertain the thought of taking a cold shower ever since.
 
Tried it this morning. Turns out my pipes were really cold so I had to quit after about 20 seconds. Did feel pretty good afterwards though. I think I'll keep it up but tone down the frigidity a touch.
 
Yeah even though I hated it I at least cut down on my shower time by at least a third. So if I were paying for gas and water I'd probably be saving a few cents or something.
 
Stayed up all night, so I decided to take a cold shower to wake up and it worked... up until now. I feel so sleepy now. :|

I don't think the winter thing really bothers or effects me. The coldest temps we get are usually in the 50s, or high 40s.
 
Does it have to be cold or can it be luke warm?
I don't wanna sound like a pussy, but my house can be cold as fuck during winter and a cold shower on top of that may actually kill me.
 
NutJobJim said:
Does it have to be cold or can it be luke warm?
I don't wanna sound like a pussy, but my house can be cold as fuck during winter and a cold shower on top of that may actually kill me.
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As cold as you can stand, you will thank me later.
 
I can confirm with the validity of SCIENCE that this works, i've never felt more energetic, happier and just awesome as i have since i started taking cold showers.

also my skin became smooth like silk, the womminz like it
 
I'm a big fan of cold showers.

I just can't take them most of the time... but when I do, I feel like ace.
 
I just did this.

Stepped in the shower, stared at the showerhead, turned the handle slightly on, and fucked that cold water up with my face. Thats right, I beat the waters ass.

Ain't no cold water gonna make me scared. I then proceeded to wash the body and hair, while smiting freezing water droplets all the while.

After a time, I turned off the water, and exited as Azor Ahai reborn. Oddly enough, a flaming sword appeared in place of my toothbrush.
 
Woke up, faced the tub, turned on the shower, and with a great battle cry tore up my shirt and briefs as I jumped into the frozen falling knives of the NC mountains.

Felt amazing. Arrested Development and now this... thank you GAF
 
Alpha-Bromega said:
I can confirm with the validity of SCIENCE that this works, i've never felt more energetic, happier and just awesome as i have since i started taking cold showers.

also my skin became smooth like silk, the womminz like it
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Seriously (about the energy and happiness)?
Mordeccai said:
I just did this.

Stepped in the shower, stared at the showerhead, turned the handle slightly on, and fucked that cold water up with my face. Thats right, I beat the waters ass.

Ain't no cold water gonna make me scared. I then proceeded to wash the body and hair, while smiting freezing water droplets all the while.

After a time, I turned off the water, and exited as Azor Ahai reborn. Oddly enough, a flaming sword appeared in place of my toothbrush.
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This post coupled with your avatar is just perfect lol.

Doing this sounds like something you just have to will your way through. I said I was gonna take one this morning but I haven't showered yet... actually haven't showered for 2 days. My balls prob smell awful.
 
I was forced to take ice cold showers for a week when my water heater broke a few weeks ago and I was miserable the entire time.
 
I did this yesterday and started to have trouble breathing, almost like I was having a panic attack. It wasn't intense or anything, but not being able to breathe because of the cold water was strange. I got used to it after 2 or 3 minutes and it became more pleasurable.
 
omgkitty said:
I did this yesterday and started to have trouble breathing, almost like I was having a panic attack. It wasn't intense or anything, but not being able to breathe because of the cold water was strange. I got used to it after 2 or 3 minutes and it became more pleasurable.
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You just prematurely ended the best orgasm of your life
 
I came in expecting some recently conducted scientific study in the OP.

Son, I am disappoint. :(

I generally take mildly hot showers every morning. Cold showers combined with cold weather = fuck that shit.
 
SamuraiX- said:
I came in expecting some recently conducted scientific study in the OP.
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Do you want something scientific?

There you go:

Mordeccai said:
I just did this.

Stepped in the shower, stared at the showerhead, turned the handle slightly on, and fucked that cold water up with my face. Thats right, I beat the waters ass.

Ain't no cold water gonna make me scared. I then proceeded to wash the body and hair, while smiting freezing water droplets all the while.

After a time, I turned off the water, and exited as Azor Ahai reborn. Oddly enough, a flaming sword appeared in place of my toothbrush.
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Mordeccai said:
I just did this.

Stepped in the shower, stared at the showerhead, turned the handle slightly on, and fucked that cold water up with my face. Thats right, I beat the waters ass.

Ain't no cold water gonna make me scared. I then proceeded to wash the body and hair, while smiting freezing water droplets all the while.

After a time, I turned off the water, and exited as Azor Ahai reborn. Oddly enough, a flaming sword appeared in place of my toothbrush.
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Bravo.
 
I used to start my day with a dive into a glacial lake. My body felt like it was glowing afterward, and the shock created a great sense that things could only go uphill from there.
 
I have to say that me being a "shower thinker" in a normal hot shower, that has greatly dissipated taking cold showers. My mind cannot focus and basically just sits on topics like:

"Oh shit! It's cold!"
"Hurry the fuck up!"
"Why are my nipples hard?"

It seems really funny, but fuck if it isn't true!
 
Took a cold to colder shower after working out last night.

Started it out as cold (much colder than lukewarm but not as cold as it could get),
after a few minutes I turned it colder
after a few more minutes I turned it all the way cold

Felt good the rest of the night. Gonna try it again once I get out of the gym later today.
 
Tried it this morning. My house was pretty chilly. I had my regular hot shower. Then, when I was covered with soap by the end, I turned the hot water off until only the cold flowed over my body. It shocked me in almost an electrical way. Made me yelp each time it made contact with my armpits or crotch. Once I was rinsed off, I turned off the water and toweled myself down. I was still very cold. Had to run back to bed and jump under the covers for a few minutes before getting dressed.

I didn't feel any better or worse the rest of the morning. It was just an uncomfortable moment or two in an otherwise typical day.
 
AVclub said:
Tried it this morning. My house was pretty chilly. I had my regular hot shower. Then, when I was covered with soap by the end, I turned the hot water off until only the cold flowed over my body. It shocked me in almost an electrical way. Made me yelp each time it made contact with my armpits or crotch. Once I was rinsed off, I turned off the water and toweled myself down. I was still very cold. Had to run back to bed and jump under the covers for a few minutes before getting dressed.

I didn't feel any better or worse the rest of the morning. It was just an uncomfortable moment or two in an otherwise typical day.
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You should've just made it cold the whole way through.
 
I can't take a cold shower without running at the first drop of cold water touching my skin.

I regularly bathe and swim in cold wild waters that make strong men cry after barely touching them with the tip of their toes.

People who know me are often puzzled about this lol.
 
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