[t_akosuke]

I've been doing it for years without being aware of wh, i come from a tropical country (and used to dread cold very much since childhood), moved to a northern country and eventually decided i didn't want to let the cold control my life so i started developing some strategies. one of them is cold showers - i got used to them after a couple months persistence and now i don't like hot ones anymore, except occasionally

it's done a lot of great stuff to me. winter depressions are a thing of the past to me now, and I'm almost as outgoing in the cold seasons as in summer.

[graeme]

Do you find you get as clean? That's been my only hesitation, I wasn't sure that cold water gets shampoo out as well or cleans odours as well.

[krageon]

I've spent a few weeks in a place with no hot running water before (only a "shower" filled with water from a meltwater river and the river itself), so I can comfortably say that you can indeed get perfectly clean with one of those. It's mostly a function of the amount of time you're willing to spend in there.

[t_akosuke]

i get clean enough for my needs, which might be different than yours. I find that hot water is only really necessary to get rid of stuff that's stuck which is not a very frequent thing, but if you don't agree you can always combine hot and cold