Sharing bath water

[UltimateLuxury]

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?

Yes, but you wash to clean away all the things you're picking up during the day - not picking up more in your bath!

Yeah that’s grim. My bath is massive too but nope.

Considering how many of us did it as children and survived, albeit slightly traumatised, it obviously doesn't do any harm. When soap was mainstream you were washing your face with the same soap someone else had just washed their arse with too.

One poor older DD was extremely traumatised when her younger sister laid a large log in the bathwater. She wasn't too keen to share after that!

That’s actually quite sad, poor you, that’s really not fair ok a child!

If anyone wants to have an environmentally friendly bath, you fill up a bucket in the tub and pour it with cups. Then you only use a set amount. What you don't do is reuse other people’s boggy water. Ughhhh

How are her baths awesome? I'm intrigued

But, nobody had to use the same arse soap either, that’s also pretty grim.

We use bar soap in my house in 2026, it goes on the net loofah and lathers well. And each person gets a separate facial bar.

soap is so cheap, there was never any excuse for what you’ve described!

Genuinely I’m shocked at the lack of scientific thinking. Obviously, if you feel ‘grim’ doing this, no judgement that’s on you. Fine by me, will never make anyone share a bath my children included.

The idea you’ll be dirtier and ‘absorb’ germs or be damaged by a few head hairs floating in the bath is crazy! It’s ok, unless you’re taking a massive shit in the bath! I really hope you don’t swim in the sea, you’d lose your shit!

No way, sorry, just no … we rarely take baths here, shower every day, much more hygienic.

We're not really bathers but I will share a bath with my husband sometimes - not the bath water consecutively, we get in the tub together and purposely installed a very large bath so that we could. But it's not really for the purpose of cleaning. It's about relaxing, and we have a quick shower off when we're finished anyway. I would hate to use someone else's bathwater.

It's all psychological - people using separate cutlery for dishing up their own pets food but ok with using cutlery in restaurants that has been in god knows who's mouth or people not wanting to use public transport but are ok with stepping on a plane with randoms for hours with no escape.

Don't get me started on what fussy people will put up with in hotels.

The list is endless but we're a
complicated bunch.

Minging
i don’t wanna use any one else’s bath water - whether or not I’m related to them

Disgusting 🤢🤢

I wouldn't, my kids did until the oldest was about 10. But not older kids and adults seems like a gross soup of sweat to me

Yeah and wash a plate in water then wash another plate in the same water and consider them both clean.
I realised DH and I had quite different upbringings when we moved in together and I offered him my bath after I had finished, he was like WHAT?
He gets in mine now though if not too much shampoo. I don't get in his cos he's a farmer...

I don't think you can get clean washing in dirty water, how is that me saying I think people 'absorb' germs? I'm not saying sharing is going to make anyone ill, I'm saying I would feel dirty.

I have swam in the sea many times, I then have a shower. I've never actually washed myself in the sea.

I don't know how anyone can feel clean washing in others used water.

Grim - shared skin soup 😖

That’s absolutely ok to ‘feel’ you don’t get clean in used water. It’s not ok to judge people who do. It’s not scientifically accurate to make that statement. I’m sure you are aware that kids from farming families are far more unlikely to get some kinds of cancer. They have microbes in their gut that prevent this.

Not sure anyone has ever got sick from taking a used bath, kids have got sick from not being exposed to germs.

You feeling ‘clean’ is scientifically not the same as you being ‘clean’.

When did people get so fucking stupid.

Grim. I had to do it a few times as a kid and hated it.
I never made my kids do it.

How rude! And seeing as you're calling people stupid, you should probably read properly before commenting. I specifically said people don't get up from sharing bath water, but I wouldn't feel clean. If you're going to wash in clean water vs use water, it's common sense to feel you'd be more clean with the former, no?
Germs help build healthy immune systems, it does not make me feel clean and that's the best part of having a shower. I didn't like doing it when I was a child, so why would I pretend I like doing it now not to hurt other people's feelings who don't agree? Opinions were asked for and I gave mine. You prefer dirty water and think people who don't are stupid - that's your opinion.

Hit a nerve?

It’s fine to judge people for whatever you want - this is an anonymous discussion forum. Using dirty water to wash in is a choice. I see people judged on here for things like being disabled which they can’t actually control!

@Heyhoherewego23 why do you feel the need to be so rude?

If you’re triggered by people being disgusted by sharing bath water that’s on you. No one is directly calling you disgusting, we’re all sharing our preferences.

I hope you feel better about yourself now youve hung the science of bath water over us.

We do it - kids often have a bath often a parent. Sometimes DH and I share but only if the first person wasn’t sweaty/ dirty and didn’t wash hair .

NO I don't want to lie in someone else's poo particles and dead skin. Completely and utterly rank.

If it's my own it's fine 😄

Yup. I haven’t had a bath since childhood for those reasons.

Sharing catheter would send me over the edge 🤣

PP specifically clarified it was about hygiene, not sickness. Interesting that you didn’t address that point!