To be cross about talc in cubicles at the swimming pool.

[Callisto]

I'm ragingly pre-menstrual right now so in actual fact I'm not bothered if I am BU, but I do want to have a bitch about this.

Took DD swimming yesterday and at least four cubicles had so much fecking talc over the floor that they were unusable. Who does this? Why? I haven't used talc in my entire life. It is disgusting, cloying, pore-blocking stinking and revolting and it makes a foul mess some poor pool attendant has to clear up. Why would you coat your child in this vile substance? To what end? Surely you can use a bloody towel like normal people do? Or are you the same type that douses their towels in so much fabric conditioner they not only stink like a whores boudoir but actively repel water?

Grrrrrrr.

I was told talk is bad for girls as it can block up their overies, not sure who told me this so it may be wrong!

Cor, what's liquid talc?

We wear flip flops or crocs in the changing room, can't believe you would walk around bare footed.

We use talc in swimming hat to stop it sticking to dd's hair. We had a fabric hat but then her hair gets wet and needs loads if shampoo to get chlorine smell out, so when it got lost we went back to the freebie plastic ones.

I bought a tiny bottle of johnsobs talc years ago purely for this purpose, it still has lots left but when it finishes I will buy an Eco version did to links posted.

Swimming pool changing rooms are foul, especially with pmt and small children.

They smell of chlorine, wee, TALC, fifty shampoos,and deodorants, they're echoey, noisy with hairdryers, often no natural light, heavy swing doors, full of semi naked people with verrucas and athletes foot.

I can't wait until we can stop swimming lessons, but my youngest takes after a long line of people in our family who swim like bricks.

Liquid Talc it's lovely.

Don't see how fabric hat getting hair wet is a problem ? surely if you have put horrid talc on childs head hair will need loads of washing to remove that? Also just because you use talc does that mean that the rest of us have to know about it when we use changing rooms after. If you are all using it and not getting on the changing room then it must be the talc fairy. No trace of your visit should be left for me to discover, I would like changing room to be left as it is found.

ooh ta Sparkling That's on the shopping list.

I put a bit on to avoid under boobage rash in the summer Peppermint.

You only need the tiniest amount in swimming hats not enough to create a hairwashing need. I just prefer the fabric hats as the DCs can get them on and off easily by themselves. I keep the plastic ones for putting wet cossies in to carry home.

I think the majority of talc isn't from the hats tbh. It's from feet.

Is there really that much talc scattered around swimming pool changing rooms? I can't say I have ever seen that much. I will be looking out for it next time I am at the swimming pool.

Liquid talc on my list too!!

The liquid talc is a bit baby lotion-ish, but dries.

The professional swimmer's way of getting the hat on is to turn it inside out, fill it full of pool water and drop it onto your head see (poor sod )

There's a poster up in the local swimming pool saying that the white powder in the changing rooms is talc, which they are using to deter ants.

No idea if it works!

I haven't ever seen or smelt any talc in the changing rooms at swimming lessons, but even so, YABU. It's talc. Not arsenic. I hate walking in other peoples wet footprints in the changing rooms, or in the soggy pool of water in the cubicle where someone has squeezed out their wet swimmers, but it's a communal pool not my own private one.
And I now use fabric hats on the DDs too. We used to have the rubber ones but I used to hurt them getting them on and off, and I still can't imagine that a bit of talc would help