wife of baths

[metaphortunate]

Hey people who take baths, and claim it is relaxing:

How does that work? Like, specifically, how often do you clean your bathtub?

Currently Rocket is bathed in a small baby tub, and the Junebug takes baths in our ordinary tub, and let me tell you I am counting the days until he grows out of reacting to showers like we have chosen to wash him in the special Flesh-Flensing Acid Shower of Death. Because right now he gets washed twice a week, ordinarily, and I have to scrub the tub down first, at least a quick wipe with one of those Lysol wet wipes, because, Jesus. I mean, we shower in that thing daily. I’ve seen what we pull out of the shower drain. It’s gross. I don’t want him sitting in that. Instead I worry about how well I’ve been able to rinse the tub and about whether it’s poisoning him sitting in Soft Scrub residue. So, like, I walk by Lush, I look at the bath bombs, it sounds nice, but then I think about the choice of sitting in dregs of hair and scum or else scrubbing the tub and then sitting in bleach eddies. Plus, if I got a bath bomb, probably scrubbing the tub afterwards as well. How does it get to be relaxing?

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[tam_nonlinear]

Well, I rarely go straight to soaking. I run the shower first to rinse myself off (don't want to soak in my own grime), and while I'm rinsing myself off, I grab the scrub brush and scrub down the tub a bit. I'll usually finish off by putting the shower head to 'high powered beads of death" (I think that's supposed to be a massage setting) and going over the tub surface with the water set to the highest temp. Then I let everything drain, and after that, stopper the tub and turn the setting to faucet rather than shower head and fill it up. But as was stated above, baths aren't for cleaning (I did that in the showering phase), baths are for 'oh god my knees' and 'I can't get warm', although sometimes 'the only way I'm getting this paint/glue/tree sap off my skin is to soak until I'm wrinkly and then scrub it off'.