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1900 Mr. Bubbles?
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Re: 1900 Mr. Bubbles?
Originally posted by carcar View PostActually milk baths are really good for the skin. And it's not all milk, you just add milk to the water. Obscures the bits, anyway. That and a few rose petals...
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Originally posted by NikeeGoddess View Posti do like the milk bath w/rose petals approach.
i went to a home show once and there was a beautiful bathroom display where they had white wine spraying out of the bidet. how lovely, but i could not put my lips to that thing. lol! too much like urine.
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i do like the milk bath w/rose petals approach.
i went to a home show once and there was a beautiful bathroom display where they had white wine spraying out of the bidet. how lovely, but i could not put my lips to that thing. lol! too much like urine.
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Re: 1900 Mr. Bubbles?
Actually milk baths are really good for the skin. And it's not all milk, you just add milk to the water. Obscures the bits, anyway. That and a few rose petals...
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Originally posted by cshel View PostIf you did decide to stick to accuracy for the time period:
You could use rose petals floating in the bath, especially if you do want to hide "the girls". Red, pink, yellow, or white could look cool.
If hiding isn't the issue, some expensive scented bath oil form Paris. Maybe it even turns the bath water a deep blue or green.
Or maybe she could fill the entire bathtub with Champagne (un-chilled) and bathe in it while she's drinking it.
cshel - The petals are way cool, very visual. I might just have to add a few on top of the bubbles, guild the lily so to speak.
Lots of good options everyone. Thanks. Let's not forget to pamper our real SO's with some of these.
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Re: 1900 Mr. Bubbles?
If you did decide to stick to accuracy for the time period:
You could use rose petals floating in the bath, especially if you do want to hide "the girls". Red, pink, yellow, or white could look cool.
If hiding isn't the issue, some expensive scented bath oil form Paris. Maybe it even turns the bath water a deep blue or green.
Or maybe she could fill the entire bathtub with Champagne (un-chilled) and bathe in it while she's drinking it.
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Re: 1900 Mr. Bubbles?
If you need to cover the boobies, as Nikee says, you could make it a milk bath. Those have been around since Cleopatra.
Fortean, you're so cool.
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Originally posted by Fortean View PostToo early.
Bubble baths, or foam baths, would have started with the development of soap flakes and modern toilet soaps, (about the end of the First World War). Soap flakes would have been imported, about 1906, ("Lux" from Lever Brothers); and, the use of that soap, (previously in hard cakes), was advertised for washing fine fabrics. Not until the 1930s were soaps marketed aggressively via magazine advertising and via radio, with the introduction of the "soap opera". Liquid dishwashing soap, (or, rather, detergents), were introduced after the Second World War, ("Dreft" in 1947). Probably, these liquid dishwashing detergents helped popularize the children's "bubble bath" during the Baby Boom, (with "Mr. Bubbles" being a toy container for this type of soap).
In 1900, the luxury hotel, (notably the Savoy), would have such amenities as "private bathrooms," (not the shared "bath" down the hallway), "hot" running water, (to rapidly fill the "bath"), and electric lights and "lifts", (elevators). The Savoy had speaking tubes to contact the hotel services; but, I'd suspect that telephones would become available, about 1900, thru the hotel's switchboard.
The champagne "bubble bath" wouldn't be right for 1900, but you could get a genuine laugh if the champagne was sitting in an ice-filled bidet, instead of a metal bucket.
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Originally posted by bioprofessor View PostAnyone know if foam/bubble baths were around in the US ca. 1900?
Sounds like a silly detail, but I want to show my protag living (fraudulently) for the first time in the lap of luxury. I wrote the scene so that she's buried in a bubble bath, sipping champagne in a fancy hotel. My problem's with the bubbles. I can't find any evidence that foam or bubble baths were around before the 1930's. Seems like at least the French would've had them before then. Any period films of this era where bubble baths were used?
Bubble baths, or foam baths, would have started with the development of soap flakes and modern toilet soaps, (about the end of the First World War). Soap flakes would have been imported, about 1906, ("Lux" from Lever Brothers); and, the use of that soap, (previously in hard cakes), was advertised for washing fine fabrics. Not until the 1930s were soaps marketed aggressively via magazine advertising and via radio, with the introduction of the "soap opera". Liquid dishwashing soap, (or, rather, detergents), were introduced after the Second World War, ("Dreft" in 1947). Probably, these liquid dishwashing detergents helped popularize the children's "bubble bath" during the Baby Boom, (with "Mr. Bubbles" being a toy container for this type of soap).
In 1900, the luxury hotel, (notably the Savoy), would have such amenities as "private bathrooms," (not the shared "bath" down the hallway), "hot" running water, (to rapidly fill the "bath"), and electric lights and "lifts", (elevators). The Savoy had speaking tubes to contact the hotel services; but, I'd suspect that telephones would become available, about 1900, thru the hotel's switchboard.
The champagne "bubble bath" wouldn't be right for 1900, but you could get a genuine laugh if the champagne was sitting in an ice-filled bidet, instead of a metal bucket.
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Re: 1900 Mr. Bubbles?
Originally posted by Centurio View PostThrow in a line that this is the "newest thing" developed by the hotel. No one will ever question it.
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Throw in a line that this is the "newest thing" developed by the hotel. No one will ever question it.
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Re: 1900 Mr. Bubbles?
Originally posted by ComicBent View PostA quick Google search says "early 20th century" was the time of the first bubble baths.
I guess it depends on how historically accurate you want to be.
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A quick Google search says "early 20th century" was the time of the first bubble baths.
I guess it depends on how historically accurate you want to be.
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Re: 1900 Mr. Bubbles?
Pears' Soap. All you needed 110 years ago. There was also a brand called White Rose Glycerin Soap that could be used for bubble baths. Wonder what the ingredients were.
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