![[Back to Menu]](stuff/backto.gif){kind=small}
![[bubble bath]](bath/bathhead.gif){kind=small}
A bubble bath is a wonderful thing, and a necessary one as well. They relieve stress and energize a tired body like nothing else can. Here, I'll share a few tips and goodies for maximizing your bubble bath experience.
Of course, a gigantic jacuzzi would be ideal here, and more power to you if you have one, but even if you don't, you can turn the tub you were issued into a whole 'nother world. There's a lot of great stuff out there, and I've tried most of it. Here are some fun ideas I've stumbled across.
It really does work as well as the magazines say it does. Using a bubble bath/shower gel, soap, and cologne in the same fragrance will strengthen the scent and prolong it as well. For a full line of toiletries in your favorite perfume, you can go to a dept. store and buy up the entire line. Even discount stores offer these products. If your favorite scent isn't a particular perfume, but a smell found in nature, or a "flavor" of some kind, then you have a few more options. My own favorite here is the Bath & Body Works. They're a nationwide chain, just full of good flavors!
Or you can cobble something together using these and other products, too -- for instance, if I use my Bath & Body Works Sugar Plum bubble bath & the Sugar Plum body splash, I'll also get out my Bonne Bell Sugar Plum Lip Smacker to try to indulge all my senses. After all, when something smells that good, you might as well taste it too, no?
If you could manage to find these products in the same scent/flavor, you'd have a great theme:
My own preference is smelling like yummy food flavors. I actually have found bath products in coffee, chocolate, banana...all kinds of wonderful stuff! At the end of this section, I'll make a list of some of the more fun products I've found along this spectrum, so if you're interested, you can find some too.
Same concept, but instead of merely deepening the scent with layering, with aromatherapy, the scent itself is supposed to alter your mood. Most lines of aromatherapy products have some standard "moods:" Relaxing, Energizing, Romantic, etc. (I need one called "Motivation:" it would have to contain something called "essence of "get-off-your-ass-and-do-something.")
I don't know if these work or not, at least for the purpose they were intended, but they sure do smell good.
Another kind of bubble bath is the sybaritic, indulge-all-your-senses approach. Music or nature sounds coming from the CD player, candles burning, flower petals in the bath water, loofahs, anything else you can think of. It sounds great, but I rarely do this myself. Too much trouble for me to gather the ingredients -- I have to move the CD player into the bathroom, actually FIND the CD I want, go to the store and buy roses for the petals, etc. Normally, I just can't be bothered. But I agree it sounds like a great idea!