Luxurious Bathing

Chapter 7: ADDENDA.

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A practical, illustrated sketch surveys historical and contemporary bathing methods and recommends the soap-bath—vigorous lathering with hot water followed by a rapid cold plunge—as the most healthful and enjoyable routine for many constitutions. It explains technique and equipment (soap, gloves, towels, plunge-baths), contrasts other forms such as vapour, Turkish, and cold-air bathing, and notes precautions like wetting the head, avoiding prolonged immersion, and exceptions for serious heart or lung conditions. The text links regular soap ablutions to cleanliness and contagion prevention, describes sensory and restorative effects, and offers domestic advice for making bathing both effective and luxurious.

ADDENDA.

Since going to press the author’s attention has been drawn—not over-courteously perhaps—by certain manufacturers to the sweeping denunciation in this Sketch of the habitual use of scented soaps; but after a careful examination and trial of various kinds, one alone—known as Pears’ transparent soap—may in his opinion be safely indicated as a pure detergent in every way suitable for Luxurious Bathing.

Field & Tuer,

Y^e Leadenhalle Presse,

London, E.C.

“Hundreds of clever young men, who are now living at home and doing nothing, might be earning very tolerable incomes by their pens if they only knew how.”—The Nineteenth Century.