What Is an Everything Shower?
What Is an Everything Shower? The Routine, the Steps and the Tools
Strip away the hashtag and an everything shower is a simple idea: take all the washing you would normally spread across a week and stack it into one long shower. Hair, conditioner, exfoliating, shaving — all of it, in one go. TikTok turned the format into a genre (there are forty-minute versions filmed in real time), but people were running long Sunday showers long before the app existed. What most videos skip is the practical part: what order to do things in, and what you actually need within reach. The appeal, judging by the comments on those videos, is the time more than the products — a reason to stop rushing at least once a week.
What is an everything shower?
The name does most of the work. It means everything. A regular shower is rinse, lather, done; an everything shower adds the jobs you would normally do separately — washing and conditioning your hair, exfoliating, shaving — then finishes with moisturizer and a few unhurried minutes after the water is off.
No fixed length, no official rule on frequency. Most people treat it as a once-a-week thing rather than a daily habit, and time is the reason. Twenty-five minutes is on the fast side; an hour is not unusual. That is also why it tends to land on a Sunday evening rather than a weekday morning. The filming is part of the trend too — half the appeal of those videos is watching someone else's version — which is fine, but it also explains why the steps get padded out to fill forty minutes of content. Yours does not need to.
The word order trips people up as well. An everything shower is the shower itself; the routine is what happens inside it. Search either phrase and you land on the same videos, which is why the two get used interchangeably, and why nobody can agree on an official number of steps.
How it differs from a regular shower
Three differences, and none of them is the water temperature.
Time first. A standard shower runs five to ten minutes. This one runs twenty-five and up, which is why it lives on weekend evenings instead of weekday mornings.
Order matters more than people expect. A hair mask needs to go on early so it can sit while you handle everything else. Save it for last and you either cut the wait short or stand around killing time — which defeats the point of a longer shower in the first place.
The shelf changes too. A quick shower needs one bottle. This needs a small lineup within arm's reach: body wash, something to exfoliate with, a razor, a cleanser.
None of this is about buying more. A longer shower with better timing changes how a routine feels more than a fifth bottle on the shelf does. The differences above are about sequence, not shopping.
The steps, in order
There is no single official sequence. The order below is the one most routines settle on, because each step sets up the next.
A note before you start: the order is not sacred. Shave before you exfoliate, wash your face first — nothing breaks. The sequence below simply avoids the two mistakes most people make, which are rinsing the conditioner out too early and standing around waiting for a mask to set.
- Dry brush first, if that is your thing — before the water, working upward from your feet. Skip it if you like. Nothing downstream changes.
- Shampoo. Wet hair, wash, move on. Doing this first means you are not rinsing body wash out of your hair at the end.
- Conditioner or hair mask, on now and left in while you work. This is the step that makes the longer shower worth the extra time.
- Exfoliate. Loofah, net sponge, exfoliating towel — whichever lives on your shelf. Light strokes, and let the tool cover the ground instead of pressing hard. Ten seconds per area is plenty.
- Shave, if you shave. Warm water and a few minutes of steam make this easier than it is at the end of a rushed shower.
- Rinse the conditioner out. Cooler water at the end if you like the way it feels.
- Face last. Cleanser, then out — moisturizer, robe, done.
The tools worth keeping within reach
The shopping list is shorter than the videos make it look.
Something to lather with matters more than most people expect. An open mesh loofah builds lather in a few seconds and hangs by its loop to dry between uses — the everyday option in our bath loofah collection does exactly this, which is why it lives on the shower shelf rather than in a drawer.
Your back is the real problem. A hand cannot reach the middle of it, which is the whole reason long-format tools exist. The Japanese exfoliating shower towel runs about 35 inches end to end and packs flat enough for a gym bag. An African net sponge does the same job as a two-handed net, with a drawstring loop to hang it by. Either way you are choosing between two long tools, not adding a third category to the shelf.
Whichever tool you pick, hanging matters. One that dries between uses stays fresher than one left in a wet heap on the shelf, which is the whole reason every loofah in our range has a loop at the top.
After that it is a razor, a hair mask and a cleanser. Nothing specialist. The difference between this and a regular shower is order and time, not gear.
A quick checklist
The phone-notes version:
Hair — shampoo, mask or deep conditioner
Body — wash, exfoliating tool, razor
Face — cleanser, moisturizer
After — towel, robe, twenty minutes that are not scheduled
That is the list. Candles, playlists and a cold rinse are optional extras — pleasant ones, but extras. None of them changes the steps above, and none of them is required to call it an everything shower.
Worth knowing, too: the extras that show up in most videos — a scalp scrub, body oil, a face mask you wear in the shower — are genuinely optional. Add one if you enjoy it. None of them is what makes it an everything shower, and skipping them saves you ten minutes.
An everything shower is really a decision to stop rushing one shower a week. The steps are simple, the order is forgiving, and the only real cost is the twenty-five minutes. What would yours include?
