Four out of five women don't shower every day, according to a new study.

Some households are not as clean as was thought

Some households are not as clean as was thought

What's more, a third of British women say they go three days without washing their body.

Flint + Flint owner Maxine Flint, who conducted the survey, commented: ''I understand the appeal of a lie-in but skipping a morning wash is both anti-social for the people around us and unhealthy.

''We are talking about routines that literally take minutes out of your day. It's true that today's pace of life is fast but surely as a nation we haven't become too busy to wash.''