Sharing bath water

UltimateLuxury · 2026-02-04T19:41:09+00:00

Just that really. For what it is worth we have a massive roll top bath which takes 15 minutes to fill I usually offer out to rest of family when I am done. is that okay or grim?

TheActualQueen · 09/02/2026 20:27

Patchworkquilts · 07/02/2026 13:31

uggghh that is gross. I am shudderingat the thought🤢. A bath is full of dead skin cells, germs and maybe some bodily fluids. Before anyone says what about swimming pools- pools are full of bleach, killing all the germs, and are filtered.
if anyone (including my hubby, kids or other family) offered me their bath water I’d think they were completely bonkers.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/01/how-much-pee-is-in-our-swimming-pools-new-urine-test-reveals-the-truth

How much pee is in our swimming pools? New urine test reveals the truth

Olympic swimmers admit to it and it seems many of the rest us are peeing in the water too, with a new scientific test finding up to 75 litres of urine in public pools

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/01/how-much-pee-is-in-our-swimming-pools-new-urine-test-reveals-the-truth

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 07/02/2026 16:48

TittyGajillions · 07/02/2026 12:04

How do you wash them away afterwards? Don't most people just stand up and get dry?

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After laying in dead skin and dirty water...?
It's called the rinse off, I use a jug with clean water as unfortunately I don't have a shower 🙁

Livpool · 07/02/2026 14:43

DH and I used to have a bath together, as in romantic. But no I wouldn’t choose to do this. We have a massive bath so no one really gets one. Maybe DS if he has been unwell but otherwise we all get (separate) showers

Cola32 · 07/02/2026 13:35

MatriarchCaz · 07/02/2026 12:55

Lol all these people saying gross - bet they get in a swimming pool that have had all the germs in - also the sea which has no end of awful things in including dead bodies.

Yes it is but you shower after getting in the pool! Or should at least.

Some of you just soak in used bathwater after swimming it seems.

Patchworkquilts · 07/02/2026 13:31

uggghh that is gross. I am shudderingat the thought🤢. A bath is full of dead skin cells, germs and maybe some bodily fluids. Before anyone says what about swimming pools- pools are full of bleach, killing all the germs, and are filtered.
if anyone (including my hubby, kids or other family) offered me their bath water I’d think they were completely bonkers.

ThisCantBeRightCanIt · 07/02/2026 13:26

I will sometimes get in after my dc (2&4).
Me and dh have a bath together sometimes but this is more about the time together than saving water

99pwithaflake · 07/02/2026 13:24

TittyGajillions · 07/02/2026 13:24

Thereby wasting more water, I don't get it shrug 🤷‍♀️

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It's okay, you don't need to get it.

TittyGajillions · 07/02/2026 13:24

99pwithaflake · 07/02/2026 13:21

I rinse off in the shower with soap.

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Thereby wasting more water, I don't get it shrug 🤷‍♀️

G5000 · 07/02/2026 13:23

But I am curious now, do people who are fine with sharing bath water also have a family toothbrush? All the same germs and saves money.

99pwithaflake · 07/02/2026 13:21

TittyGajillions · 07/02/2026 12:04

How do you wash them away afterwards? Don't most people just stand up and get dry?

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I rinse off in the shower with soap.

loislovesstewie · 07/02/2026 13:21

MatriarchCaz · 07/02/2026 13:08

My comment was aimed at all the people saying it was gross to get in water someone else had been in due to germs etc.

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I know, I'm pointing out that washing in used bathwater is gross. I would not feel clean. I don't expect sea water or a swimming pool to clean my body. I understand what's in it, so shower afterwards.

99pwithaflake · 07/02/2026 13:21

MatriarchCaz · 07/02/2026 12:55

Lol all these people saying gross - bet they get in a swimming pool that have had all the germs in - also the sea which has no end of awful things in including dead bodies.

Sure, but you don't do those things to get clean, you go in a pool to swim or relax - then you wash afterwards.

99pwithaflake · 07/02/2026 13:21

Clarissaclaire · 07/02/2026 13:06

Some of you expressing revulsion, but how many of you have gotten into a hot tub with a bunch of friends?

I shower and wash myself afterwards though...

MatriarchCaz · 07/02/2026 13:08

loislovesstewie · 07/02/2026 12:58

I don't use the sea or swimming pool to clean my body though. I shower afterwards to be clean.

My comment was aimed at all the people saying it was gross to get in water someone else had been in due to germs etc.

Clarissaclaire · 07/02/2026 13:06

Some of you expressing revulsion, but how many of you have gotten into a hot tub with a bunch of friends?

loislovesstewie · 07/02/2026 12:58

I don't use the sea or swimming pool to clean my body though. I shower afterwards to be clean.

MatriarchCaz · 07/02/2026 12:55

Lol all these people saying gross - bet they get in a swimming pool that have had all the germs in - also the sea which has no end of awful things in including dead bodies.

Isthateveryonethen · 07/02/2026 12:31

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 04/02/2026 19:55

To me, that's absolutely foul, I had a instinctive recoil at the thought. If someone offered me their bathwater - DP / my parents / sibling I'd think they'd lost their bloody mind.

Why on earth would anyone want to sit in someone else's dirt and used soap?! ----

its so grim isn’t it?

TittyGajillions · 07/02/2026 12:04

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 07/02/2026 11:10

And then wash them away afterwards.....

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How do you wash them away afterwards? Don't most people just stand up and get dry?

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 07/02/2026 11:10

Tableforjoan · 04/02/2026 19:44

I’d say grim but I think baths full stop are grim. You just sit in your dirt sweat and dead cells.

And then wash them away afterwards.....

99pwithaflake · 07/02/2026 09:55

Jane143 · 07/02/2026 08:12

No, but my point is this. If you’re so worried there may be germs or skin cells from your husband on a shared towel or bath water, how is it suddenly ok to share the same germs etc during sex? You either feel yucky about them or you don’t. In my case I don’t.

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I don’t feel yucky about them but equally I wouldn’t use his dirty skin cells and sweat to wash myself 🥴

I want to be clean after a bath, I don’t want to sit in someone else’s dirty, sweaty water.

Cola32 · 07/02/2026 09:49

Jane143 · 07/02/2026 08:12

No, but my point is this. If you’re so worried there may be germs or skin cells from your husband on a shared towel or bath water, how is it suddenly ok to share the same germs etc during sex? You either feel yucky about them or you don’t. In my case I don’t.

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Because you clean yourself afterwards

G5000 · 07/02/2026 08:47

so considering it's all the same germs - if you're happy to kiss your husband, do you also share the same toothbrush?

Jane143 · 07/02/2026 08:12

99pwithaflake · 07/02/2026 07:51

But you don’t have sex to get clean

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No, but my point is this. If you’re so worried there may be germs or skin cells from your husband on a shared towel or bath water, how is it suddenly ok to share the same germs etc during sex? You either feel yucky about them or you don’t. In my case I don’t.

99pwithaflake · 07/02/2026 07:51

Jane143 · 06/02/2026 18:51

Why? How? Sex is far more intimate than a bath towel or bath water

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But you don’t have sex to get clean