Bathing in dettol

[Pinkerbells]

So I was chatting to my friend about what we were doing after work, (we work in a restaurant), and she said she was going home to have a dettol bath. I though she was kidding as she has a bug, but no. Turns out she has a 45 minute soak in dettol every night, then changes the water and has a 45 minute bath in 'normal' bathwater. Is this a thing??????? AIBU to think that's so bad for your skin and fufu. Dettol's website (of course) say it's fine, but surely your killing germs bad or good.

My mum used to put dettol or savlon in our baths when we were little

Why does she do that?!

jeez! does she have germ phobia? she has enough time for an hour and a half bath too? being soaked for that long in any water cannot be good for the skin, hope she uses a ton of moisturiser. Sounds like OCD to me.

I had a flatmate who bathed in Dettol. Turned out she was having a psychotic episode.

I've seen that mentioned on here a while back and thought I had misread it. My skin would be in pieces on the back of the bath.

It may well be OCD, i use disinfectant in showers, sometimes bleach on a bad day.

My mum used to put Dettol in our baths every night. We came out of the bathroom reeking like an intensive care ward. Clearly she was unaware of the delights of Matey and Radox.

Just why would she do that?

Fufu?

My friend bathes her kids in Dettol on really filthy days.

It was a thing I read about on one of the Hinch Army fb groups. I'd never heard of this before but lots do it apparently.

yep dettol in bath water is a common thing. It makes sense as it disinfects the tub prior to you getting in.

I used to put Dettol in my sons bath after a game of rugby for him to soak in.

I must admit I love the smell of dettol however I think this is a weird instagram/hincharmy craze like stamping your toilet paper ends with the tap.

Hang on, is she bathing solely in dettol, or having a water bath with dettol added? The later is understandable, the former not so much!

Oh, I'd forgotten about Dettol baths! My Mum used to put it in my baths when I was a kid, the smell of Dettol makes me think of Sunday nights

My Mum used to pop a tiny bit of Dettol in our baths as children. I remember it being shown on an advert for Dettol in the 80's. I think people did not bathe as often then so maybe we had more germs built up to get rid of?

I think that is a terrible idea. The skin has a flora of healthy bacteria which should not be interfered with

At university nearly 20 years ago we were having one of those "remember when your parents used to...." conversations. Someone mentioned putting Dettol in the bath. There was a resounding WTF response from everyone else and it killed the conversation.

I think this is a weird instagram/hincharmy craze

People have been bathing in Dettol since before the Hinch woman was even a glint.
I remember Mum giving me Dettol baths as a kid in the late 70's.

I love a dettol bath, always helps me relax, cant do it more than once a week but I love the smell and I think it's what has kept my spots away

like stamping your toilet paper ends with the tap.

Say what now?

I used to get these when I was a kid.

I've only ever seen this on Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners.

Me and my sister laugh about the time she dumped into the pond in the house we'd just bought and what seemed like 4 million frogs jumped out. She was promptly put into a big steaming dettol bath!