# Are You a Bath or a Shower Person and...... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824 "2000-06-28T02:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/1 "2000-06-28T02:41:48Z")
What’s the weirdest named product you use for the upkeep of your body?? I am a ‘bath’ person, and as I was taking a bath tonight, slathered on my face is ‘naturalessence masque’ and I got to thinking. Isn’t a ‘masque’ an entertainment popular in England, what has that got to do with this green stuff that makes my face stretch REAL tight??? It CAN’T be for entertainment, I even hide in the bathroom, because the sight of me in a hideous green face has been known to frighten little children and small pets. So, as I’m pondering these great thoughts, my mind wandered to the SDMB folks, what say you? Bath or shower, and what’s YOUR weirdest product name? ---
**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/2 "2000-06-28T02:49:01Z")
Well am a shower person, unless its a bath with someone, then its definately a bath! but prefer a shower, what was the question again? ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/3 "2000-06-28T02:51:07Z")
I need my shower in the morning to help bring me back to life and I love my baths in the evening to relax. My favourite is to have a bubble bath in Raspberry Ripple. It smells great and makes you all tingly. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/4 "2000-06-28T03:17:50Z")
A bath, with a book. Not to rub, just to read. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/5 "2000-06-28T03:30:23Z")
I’m a shower person. I haven’t taken a bath in so long. Hmmm…maybe I’ll do that tonight. I don’t really use a lot of products that would be considered to have “weird” names. I suppose Pantene ProV is a pretty weird name. Not uncommon, but weird. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/6 "2000-06-28T03:40:05Z")
showers…definitly! even with two people…though thats cuz bathtubs tend to be a little cramped… 🙂 and it would drive me nuts if i never asnwered this: “masque” is french for mask…something you use to cover your face. so its not that strange a name. ---
**Author:** ![my85car](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@my85car](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/my85car)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/7 "2000-06-28T03:45:36Z")
I can honestly say that I haven’t had a shower in 6 years. But that is because the house I live in only has a bathtub, and it’s one with feet!! Hope it doesn’t walk away, then I’d really be in a pickle. :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/8 "2000-06-28T04:10:24Z")
Bath please, and my poison of choice is “Goofy Grape” bubble bath from “Dollar Tree” lol. Of course, ideally I’d get something luxurious like Vanilla Bean from Bath and Body works, but hell, I can’t see paying more than a dollar for something that get’s washed down the drain, geez! ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/9 "2000-06-28T04:31:10Z")
A bath person. My house didn’t have a shower, until we moved when I was 12. But I still prefer baths. hmmmm. oddly named product. I guess Sesame Street soap powder. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/10 "2000-06-28T04:48:27Z")
I am with Canadian Sue - I shower every morning and when I have not plans, I bathe in the evening. I like the whole nine yards - candles, dim lights, a book, jazz music, soap bubbles, a face mask. I highly recommend Bath & Body Works Joyful Splendor Bath Cream (it has some quacked name like that, it’s the pink one). I guess the three oddest products I own are Origins Let’s Circulate Salt Soap, Origins Birthday Suit Body Moisturisor, and Origins Precipitation Invisible BodySuit for dry skin. They’re expensive, but I loooove Origins and there is a store conviently located in my local mall. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/11 "2000-06-28T05:02:19Z")
CanadianSue, I’m glad you confine drinking Raspberry Ripple in the tub and not in the shower. Careful, though. You might slip in and drown. May I recommend a better bath wine, though? Just about anything. (Hey, do they still sell the various flavors of Ripple so people know what I’m talking about? No? Oops!) I’m a shower person. I prefer not to steep in my own juices. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/12 "2000-06-28T06:36:46Z")
Shower person…I like being rained on, especially if it is nice and warm. In the shower it should be hot and hard (No innuendos please. :: smile :: ) As for the cleaning part, I just soap up and clean as fast as I can so I can luxurate longer. That said, I love a bath when I am not feeling well or tired. Problem is, most single person tubs are too small for me. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/13 "2000-06-28T06:58:04Z")
I like both… I take showers most of the time but when I have the time or just feel like it enough to make the time I take a bath… the whole nine yards as well scented candles… music… a book… my weirdest product name would be actually mine doesn’t have weird names… well Leap soap and bodywash maybe which come from The Body Shop ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/14 "2000-06-28T07:19:17Z")
I shower most days, I do like a nice soaking bath with scented candles a glass of something cold to drink, and my Moody Blues cd playing somethimes though. I use anti-bacterial soap. That’s it, I’m not into the fancy stuff and oils give me problems. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/15 "2000-06-28T11:41:49Z")
Definite bath. I have to have one at night to sleep. I also go into NYC for CDS, and always play them the first time while in the tub. I use Freeman Botanical products. ---
**Author:** ![Michi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@Michi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michi)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/16 "2000-06-28T12:22:01Z")
Add my name to the shower in the AM and bath in the PM camp. I don’t use any unsually named products. ---
**Author:** ![Needs2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Needs2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Needs2know)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/17 "2000-06-28T12:55:28Z")
Shower…I don’t like sitting in my own scum. I take a bath now and again for relaxation. But afterwards I turn on the shower, wash my hair, and rinse off. Needs2know ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/18 "2000-06-28T14:34:50Z")
I’m a shower only gal. I haven’t taken a bath in 10 years probably! I like to have the water **really** hot too… so hot it turns my skin red! Shower’s are even better if my boyfriend joins me. 🙂 I may not take baths myself but I give baths practically every night, (for my kids of course) so my bathtub is always clean because I don’t want their little bottoms sitting on the soap scum! I’m forever cleaning my bathtub! ---
**Author:** ![Zion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b5e925/32.png) [@Zion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zion)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/19 "2000-06-28T14:42:03Z")
Like Rachelle, I haven’t had a bath in over 10 years. I hate baths. Showering is the only way to go. ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824/20 "2000-06-28T15:47:03Z")
Showers in the morning, definitely. I would fall asleep in the tub if I took morning baths - don’t know how the hubby can do it. Baths several times a week as I prefer shaving in the tub. Oddly named bath products - I have so many I don’t know where to start. Hmm. I guess the oddest might be Flying Saucers Bath Foam, or Aqua Mirabilis Underwater Massage Bars, or Ceridwen’s Cauldron Bath Melts. Lush Products - awesome stuff. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-bath-or-a-shower-person-and/23824.md?page=2)