Washing hair in the bath - how did people manage in the olden days?

missbiggles1

ripplyuk wrote: »

I moved in here last summer and there's only a bath. No shower or even a mixer tap, and I can't afford either at the minute. I bought one of those push-on rubber hoses you attach to the taps but I'm now on my third as eventually they start leaking and spraying water everywhere. Before showers existed, how did people manage this?

Someone told me they used a jug, but I'm not sure how that works. Do you need to have both hot and cold taps running to get the right temperature (a bit of a faff) or did they mean to just dunk it in the dirty bath water and pour that over my head? :eek:

Any advice or tips appreciated

Simplest solution, fit something like this.

http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/beta-lever-bath-shower-mixer-298897

prosaver

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

You can get rechargeable shower heads too.

I use one for camping and power cuts but I think they are mostly sold for washing pets outdoors.

You charge it up (via USB) then drop the pump into warm water.
This is mine: Ivation but there are loads of others.

you could have a big bucket of warm water next to the bath too. but its 33 pound tho ..i would stick too plastic milk carton
:pimho:p

SailorSam

In the olden days ?
Eehh we'd get home from Pit, missus would pull me boots off and get in tin bath in front of the fire, never take me vest off tho with ladies in the house.

lisa110rry

When I was a child (with very long hair), my hair would be washed in the bath water and rinsed with jugs of warm, clean water (kneeling as my hair was so long). Now I mostly wash my chin length hair in the shower, but sometimes like to wash it in the bath still (although I have a shower attachment in the bath - the normal shower is separate). I find dunking my hair in the bath means I use less shampoo and if feels so good.

ripplyuk

SailorSam wrote: »

In the olden days ?
Eehh we'd get home from Pit, missus would pull me boots off and get in tin bath in front of the fire, never take me vest off tho with ladies in the house.

:rotfl:


I probably seem a bit fussy but I don't want to dunk my head in the bath water. I keep thinking it'll be full of germs because I'm sitting in it. I did try it once and for some reason, it was seriously tatty afterwards. I'm not sure why, maybe because it's quite long (mid waist) and swirling it about tangled it.

lisa110rry

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

Sometimes I feel like I'd like to wash my hair while I'm in the bath but I'm scared the conditioner will make the bath surface slippery and it will all end badly!

Quizzical, if you make sure all the water is out, then turn around sideways and push yourself out, you'll be fine. (I had a foot rebuild in 2014 and did it that way then.) Alternatively, get a rubber bath mat and sucker it on the bottom of the bath before you get out. You don't need it in there while batheing, just put it in when getting out. Get to your knees, holding the sides, and get up one leg at a time to make sure the suckers have 'taken'.

Callie22

We are having to manage with one of those push on showers at the moment, until we can get the bathroom sorted. It took a bit of trial and error but we found that using the metal hose clips that you normally get around washing machine hoses to hold the rubber on to the taps works brilliantly. It holds them on and stops them popping off when they heat up - it means that you can't get the shower off easily to run the taps but if you're using the shower rather than the bath then it's not that much of a problem. You also need to be careful about how much you turn the taps on as they really can't stand high pressure water - but again, that saves water

Hedgehog99

I'd use the kitchen sink or hand basin preferably (height is easier), but if you specifically need/want to use the bath:

1)Fill bath as normal
2)fill a washing up bowl with some of the clean bath water & have a jug ready
3)Get in and sit facing bowl with knees either side.
4)Bathe & wash hair in preferred order - hair water is kept separate from person water.
5)Don't use anything too perfumed etc so you don't set off cystitis etc.

boliston

prosaver wrote: »

you could wash your hair in the bath and rinse it will the jugs of water...

I would just dunk my head under the water to rinse it. I guess this would not be so easy for someone tall or someone with a short bath.

Smoosh

I only ever have baths, we do have a shower, but I just prefer baths, so I always wash my hair in the bath. Ours has a little shower head attachment, but the temperature on it can be a bit temperamental at times, so sometimes I'll just turn around and lean back under the tap to get the soap out.

Honestly, I don't see the point about the "dirty" bath (unless you're covered in actual dirt), there are no more germs in your bath then there are on you everyday.