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 great granny used to put Dettol in my baths too, says she used to have them as a child as well and she was born in 1911

Plus you can get lavender dettol, I wonder if that’s designed for night time baths as well as a different cleaning fragrance

windy coal tar soap & polytar shampoo!

PURE Dettol? Or diluted?

Heavily diluted, of course !!! Imagine how many bottles you’d need for a bath of pure detail!

Radox for her bday

I do remember the TV ad for Dettol baths in the late 70s / early 80s! It definitely was a thing!! We didn’t do it though... cheap own brand washing up liquid in the bath for us! And a bottle of Matey for Christmas. Good times!

Ah, this has brought back memories! It used to go a milky white as it mixed with the water and my Grandma told us we were bathing in milk, like Cleopatra .

Neurotic. My fanny would be beyond sore

OMG what a waste of water!!!!!

People recommended me to have one after my episiotomy. The thought made me cringe so I didn't but I have heard of it before.

A drop of dettol (a cap I guess) always went in our baths as kids - but only if we had scraped knees. Ahhh, the 70’s were great.

I think people do this for eczema. Also called a bleach bath.
My mum always gave me a savlon bath in the eighties. I didn't realise it was so popular!

My MIL has a capful of Dettol in her bath. She is a bit of nutjob in many ways, so I just added this to her list of eccentricities - I never realised it was as common as it appears to be here. Mumsnet is always an education.

Back in the dark ages when I had my first baby, there was a sort of powder disinfectant that we were told to add to the bath water in hospital, not dissimilar to Vim! 3rd degree tear and it did really help

People are so mad it makes me cry

Always had dettol in the bath when we were children. Mostly because there wasn't the luxury of you being the only one to use the water!
I still used it sometimes for my children because it was great for cleaning skinned knees in the bath.

Tiny half capful of Dettol in the bath for DD growing up if she'd skint her knees and elbows playing outside, just like my mum did for us! Not every night - just the night of to make sure the cuts were clean.

I add a wee half cap to my bath once a week along with some bath sea salts to keep spots on my back and shoulders at bay, which used to be extremely unsightly and painful, but have since cleared up entirely thanks to my two trusty bath buddies. Works a bloody treat!

It was TCP when I was younger x

My mum always puts Dettol in her bath, has done for years. She's 77 now. She also uses it to clean her loo every week and the smell of it brings back 70s childhood memories.
She used to use it to clean the kitchen and leave all the cloths and flannels soaking in it regularly too but changed to Milton as Dettol is poisonous to cats (as is anything that turns water milky) and my cats have a habit of drinking from the washing up bowl 🤢 as well as occasionally falling in the bath (but not when she's in it cos she shuts the door!!)
I can't imagine her using Milton in the bath, it smells too bleachy.

Erm. Fufu?

90s baby - dettol and hot water in a cup for cleaning newly pierced ears, vosene shampoo to try and help avoid nits, followed by tea tree conditioner and a vinegar rinse
In all fairness to my dad, who masterminded the regime, we never had lice despite being sent home with the ‘headline in your class’ warning letters multiple times a week, so maybe he was onto something!

DH regularly has dettol baths and I always thought he was crazy but after I'd had dc2 I decided to try it to help my stitches heal, they got infected after first birth and it was a nightmare so I was willing to try anything to avoid that again. Sat in a shallow dettol bath for 5 mins twice a day and they healed so quickly, I was shocked. Magic!

My mam used to put a capful of Dettol in our baths when we were kids. When I had my first baby in hospital in 82 they put a capful and sea salt in bath to ease the soreness. When my kids were little I put it in their baths. I also diluted it to clean the cats paws when he had a fight with a hedgehog. It's good stuff although my dh likes tcp better but that just stinks house out.

We once knew somebody who had a thing about germs - Dettox spray was her product of choice.

We once saw that she'd bought a shrink-wrapped pack of 12 bottles (like you'd find on the shelves of a shop). Before she opened it to get at the new bottles of Dettox, she liberally Dettoxed the pack with an existing bottle.

Dettoxed her bog roll, too - made it all rough and crusty like that old Bronco stuff they had at school in the 80s.