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.

People are so weird

Yeah I have added a capful or detol to my bath before.
It was actually a when I was younger and used to work in a restaurant. I felt so yucky after my shifts at work I'd always take long showers or occasional detol bath.

Would not do it now. I expect it can be harmful to skin & privates (I didn't get any rash etc at the time but still, not clever!)

I’ve enjoyed reading this 😂.
I’m in my early 30’s and my grandparents used to always bathe me in dettol. My partner still occasionally does.

What sort of life does she have that she can expend 90 mins of each day in the bath??

I use to have dettol baths when I was younger I know a few people that do it now. You only put a splash in. I've used it with my daughter a couple of times when she has been extremely poorly.

I'd be more concerned as to whether she has OCD or some sort of phobia than her skin

My DH baths in dettol after rugby, cleans up his cuts and scrapes.

Very common in other parts of the world.

Not neat dettol though!

An old friend of mine was a real hardcore all-weekender wild thing. She was/is such a laugh and up for anything, always had a new boyfriend, new friend, new party scene to be on - but some weekends would go a bit too far, resulting in “that was such a mental weekend, I need to bath in Dettol and then take a Valium to just wash it all away”.... even now everyone uses it as the benchmark of a properly wild weekend (which are few and far between now we’re all married with a zillion kids). Or more likely even, the total opposite, as in “it was a fun weekend and everything, but no need for a Dettol bath and a Valium”.

Goodness! I’d quite forgotten about dettol/savlon baths!

I had to google the toilet stamping though... why? I just don’t get why? No really, why?

As a child/ teenager my mum had to hide Dettol from me and lock it away. Otherwise, I was quite happy to run a bath with just enough water to cover me and then tip a whole bottle in.

I am a self-harmer and esp as a teen was covered in open sores so it probably prevented a lot of infections.

I don't have a bath nowadays but every so often I go into the shower and before I turn the water on, I wash myself down in neat disinfectant (cheapest one from the supermarket about a litre for 30p) it put on very liberally, a whole litre is used per shower.

it helps me feel better mentally and physically but its a compromise after the GP treated an open wound which she commented was "kinda burnt" around the edges, it was cos I was dabbing it a couple of times of day in neat bleach. She persuaded me to stop with the bleach and if was still going to use something disinfectant was less harmful.

Im not overly fussy about things being clean and will pick something of the floor it I drop it (using 5-second rule) so this is a way of reclaiming myself in the lesser harmful way.

This is insane.

@liverbird10 not if you're doing it for a medical condition like a bleach bath

@Ollivander84 I didn't read the full thread before posting, must admit.

I used to know a family who washed their ‘fufu’ with dettol after the toilet. I dont know the details of how they did it exactly but it was undiluted and i always wondered how much they spent on dettol a week and if it was used after every toilet visit/once a day.
Im sad to say ive never had a dettol bath, i only remember a bit being used when we were sick (so into the bowl of hot soapy water for is to be sick into) so thats what the smell of dettol makes me think of. Yuk! Anyway, off to google toilet roll stamping now🤔

A couple of caps of detol in the bath if you had any cuts or scrapes- which have previously been cleaned by a bowl of 50/50 warm water & detol on a cotton pad.
80's/90's kid, still cleaned the dc's cuts and scrapes with the detol mix in the 2000's but did not do the detol bathe for them

I dont get this toilet stamping thing - it doesnt even look nice. Mrs. Hinch? Mrs. Who? She’s a ‘cleaning influencer’ according to one website. A what now?! I love a good root round the Robert Dyas cleaning section but seriously, when is this influencer nonsense going to go away?

Must be great to have so much time to wallow in baths for that length of time, never mind the cost of all the hot water. As for the Dettol depends on how much is being used. A little should do no harm nut really unnecessary on a regular basis.

Well DH bought some Cidal soap home. Put it this way antibacterial soap & outside undercarriage joining legs bit not a good idea! Will stick to good old Imperial Leather/Palmolive/Lux in future!

Those who said you can still get TCP bottles - you're right, I checked in town today. I guess they were just out of stock last time I looked. (It's not like I did an exhaustive search.)

I dont get this toilet stamping thing - it doesnt even look nice.

I haven't the faintest idea what toilet stamping is, but if it's anything like it sounds - i.e. a necessary repeated physical action that one has to do in order to enlist the aid of gravity in encouraging 'things' to proceed as they must - I REALLY wouldn't expect it to look nice at all....

No, it's folding the end of the loo roll into a point - like in hotels - and then using a little liquid, such as against the end of the tap, to help it stay in a pointed shape rather than unfold itself.

It is a completely pointless thing to do (other than you fold it into a point,but it's pointless in terms of usefulness.)

Always a Detol bath on the days I had hockey/trailed myself through hedges/tried to climb the wall covered in climbing rose. Palmolive/Lux/ Imperial Leather all remind me of my granny and aunts and carbolic soap reminds me of my dad cleaning up after working on a printing press. Milton was used liberally for cleaning fruit, but we did live in Africa and clean water could ve a luxury some days.

It's funny because I have more olfactory memories in common with MIL than DH, but DH shares similar TV programme memories despite our age difference. The smell of Detol takes me back to gettig a bath before TV started (transmission was only between 5pm and 10pm weekdays, 10am-10pm weekends where the bulk of the day would be imported programmes) and dinner after He-man 😁

Haha webuilt, i think i meant ‘toilet roll stamping’ but i think toilet stamping might actually be more usefull. I hadnt heard of it or this bizarre Mrs Hinch obsession some people have until i read this thread.

We used to have dettol in the bath when I was small. I'd be more worried she bathes for 90 mins. Far worse is my friend who bathes in vinegar. It smells like really unwashed sweaty person. Not sure what the benefits are supposed to be.