Why You Should Take Cold Showers
As the summer approaches quickly, taking a nice cold or cool shower really helps cool my body down. It turns out that so many feel quite differently and prefer to take a nice hot, steamy shower. Well did you know that cold showers have many health benefits and can help save you money on both your energy and water bills? Let’s find out how.
Energy Savings
The true cost of a shower is not just the cost of the water, but the cost to heat that water. Imagine a scenario with a family of 4 and each of the members in the families take approximately 10 minute showers per day at a hot temperature like many Americans do. This family decides to switch to taking cool showers (approximately 75°) during the warmer 6 months of the year. With the help of my handy shower water and energy calculator, this family will save approximately $67.73 per person for a total of $270.90 per year. Not to bad for simply switching to taking cooler showers. The tough part is going to get your family to buy into taking cooler showers 
Health Benefits
So many of us hear about the health benefits of taking a cold shower, but don’t really know why it’s good for out health. Well, here are those reasons:
- Increase blood circulation.
- Reduce blood pressure on organs.
- Clean circulatory system.
- Strengthens nervous system.
- Strengthens mucous membranes.
- Doesn’t dry out skin.
I take cold showers, especially during the summer and I feel more refreshed, have much more energy and my skin doesn’t feel as dry. One thing to note is that women should not take cold showers during their time of menstruation as it is too harsh on the reproductive system. Instead, take a luke-warm shower and not a hot one.
Water Savings
Though water is not really expensive for us, it is such a scarce resource throughout the world and we must do our part to conserve it. Taking cooler showers can help move along the process of showering, no matter how hot it is outside. It is really shocking for out bodies and those 20+ minute showers will be a lot harder to take.
Try taking a cold shower and you won’t be disappointed.
Comments
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May 21st, 2010
I keep the temperature setting lower on the water heater, so everyone has to take cooler showers in the warmer months of the year. It really does help us save on our propane usage.
Despite its benefits i tend to get a cold everytime i take a colder shower. But here is another tip, you can turn of your water heater when you do not intend to use hot water, if you keep it on it keeps working and working.
one downside to having cold showers is over winter months i’d imagine you’d have to end up turning the heating up so that you can get warm again to a comfortable temperature, which will then use more power. perhaps a better alternative is to have a small shower room/space so that the steam heats up the shower space quickly and then you can still be hot and lower the heat
We also turn down our hot water heater thermostat in the summer. Our house was replumbed and the pipes now run through the attic, so sometimes we even get hot water for free (whether we want it or not).
I have heard, although I’ve never officially verified it, that if you are really overheated and jump into a cold pool or drink a glass of ice cold water, you could shock your system too much and it could kill you. I don’t know if it’s really true, but I suppose it’s worth keeping in mind.