Least regrettable but most unconventional liquid to take a bath in?
Least regrettable but most unconventional liquid to take a bath in?
Least regrettable but most unconventional liquid to take a bath in?
Cannabis oil
now that'd be a journey
That's nowhere near $240 worth of pudding. Give me about 60 gallons of milk, a pile of cornstarch, some sugar, and some vanilla extract and I'll make you over 8 cubic feet/220 liters of pudding. You'd drown.
Edit: I did the math and I could comfortably make over 50 gallons on pudding on that budget even with maltodextrin and modified corn starch, no heat just mixing.
lmao, I wish they dived in
Steve Allen on his TV show in the 60s used to occasionally get into bathtubs full of weird stuff. The one I remember offhand was oatmeal.
I would happily do oatmeal
nail polish that has been sitting out with the lid partly unscrewed for a week.
Or printer ink. Costs thousands.
Edit: missed the regrettable part 😞
nice try nonetheless
Elon his blood. 6L is enough.
I think 4L is enough for him to go into shock
I just want to be sure.
Lemon jello.
Just before it sets.
Like it sets with you in it?
Oh yeah.
Me mold.
Custard
Sleepytime tea
Feel like any resulting UTIs would be worth it for the great sleep that bath would bring
My goodness, that's almost a bucket list item.
Hmm. I wonder how steeped would be best for maximum soothing. Unless it's a heated tub there would be a real art to the timing, even once you know.
Gallium? It's solid at room temperature, but your own body heat will melt it, so you lie down on a solid block of metal and then slowly sink into a melting puddle in the middle of it. It's non-toxic and six times denser than water so you'd be really floaty on it too
Sounds like something out of a horror film. Your body heat melts you into the material. Then, as heat gets distributed and you have more skin contact, you are no longer generating enough heat to keep the gallium melted.
You either suffocate as the material solidifies around your abdomen or you freeze to death as the material pulls enough heat from you to kill you.
150 litres of Gallium would cost $130800
Well that does make it quite regrettable for most people, I suppose
We need to convince the billionaires that this is the cool thing for them to do...
Hmm! Quite the investment vehicle!
(I'm now just picturing tech bros smugly smiling with bathtubs full of gallium)
It might act like a giant heatsink tho, making your body cool out as soon as it starts melting and creating proper surface contact. But chilling in 20°C water is also not really an issue so i guess it depends on the thermal conductivity of the skin/gallium interface.
You don't want it to get in your body (holes, cuts etc...)
the physical description also applies to butter
Missed opportunity for a Saw film
Heavy water - like water, just heavier.
What dilution? 25% makes you sterile and 50% kills you after a week of drinking it
Maybe coconut water or aloe vera gel, I imagine it'd feel weird but probably not regrettable.
I guess we've got to beat Cleopatra as our baseline with her bath of asp milk.
Marmite would probably veer into the regrettable category, and I'm saying that as a marmite enjoyer
coconut water
in a heartbeat
aloe vera
I can imagine this feeling really tingly after a while, though not sure why.
asp milk
what is this? I googled and found nothing
marmite
I too partake joyfully in that hellish sludge, and have wondered what depths of depravity I would willingly go to to satisfy that dark craving
Wikipedia says donkey milk was used by Cleopatra, not asp milk. Maybe OP meant ass milk and got autocorrected, but that sounds really wrong.
You’ve got two Cleopatra stories mixed up there.
She was said to bathe in ass’s (donkey’s) milk.
She killed herself by holding an asp (snake) to her breast.
Alcoholic beverages
Other liquids
I read these to my husband and he said "an oil bath sounds like it would be good for your skin but you'd be all slipping around and unable to get out then you'd drown." While flailing his arms around as a visual aid.
Or if you did get out you'd immediately slip and crack your head open.
Oxygen
There certainly wouldn't be any regrets (because you would not have time to do so before death).
Would the temperature be reasonable for a human in liquid form?
At 1 bar the boiling point of oxygen is 90.19 K (−182.96 °C, or the temperature of a banana when thrown into liquid oxygen, in freedom units) so lower than this up to freezing point (54.36 K, −218.79 °C) is liquid form. So it should be comfortable for a human to bath in, with the current world tension, clown leaders and right wing extremism on the rise.
No. It even passes the critical point at just 5 bars, in case anyone was trying to get clever with high pressures.
Also, skin becomes very flammable in pure oxygen (at atmospheric pressure), in case you'd prefer that kind of burn.
Heinz Baked Beans.
Excuse you, this isn't unconventional at all, 69,000,000 Brits do it every morning
Baked Beans
It seems that you need to go watch Tommy: A Rock Opera immediately
Oh I'm a huge fan.
no regrets?
Oobleck for the experience. It wouldn't clean you, but you'd have a story. Possibly mild regret if it's in a bathtub that you need to clean or a house who's plumbing you're responsible for afterwards.
I like it -- though how do I get out of it?
Very slowly.
Milk ?
lmao, the most rational answer in this whole thread
Zero sugar energy drinks.
No sugar means its not gonna get sticky, it'd rinse right off.
I imagine a bunch of creams already use the b vitamins you'd get since they love shoving b vitamins in those.
And it'll actually drain when you're done and a quick rinse will get everything normal afterwards.
Would the caffeine have any effect? Can skin absorb it?
I was going to say heavy water, but TIL that it's not just chonky water. It can be toxic.
Like, barely toxic. Table salt will kill you faster.
One line of evidence for this is a literal mixup at a nuclear plant where they managed to put it in the water cooler for an extended period, with no ill effects.
Only if you drink it in considerable amounts. Should be pretty fine for a bath though.
Vanta Black
I'm gambling that the experience of it would mitigate how much of a pain in the ass the repercussions would be.
Edit: I suppose I ought to have looked before, but this appears to be not the healthiest decision (who'd have though‽). Maybe we'll go with some kind of closest equivalent nontoxic paint?
Very fine charcoal powder maybe (and self-contained breathing apparatus).
On the morbidly curious side of things, I do wonder what such a person looks like. You would just notice the eyes and the hair. Everything else would just be stark contrast.
There's also the whole, "went vanta black face" issue
A mixture of Vaseline and baby oil, just enough to keep it liquified.
That sounds... messy.... but yes, you will technically be quite clean and fragrant after
I'd say perfluorocarbons, like perfluorodecalin. Harmless and clear, but they have huge oxygen absorption capacity, so you'd surely be able to breathe even if you sank your face in it (probably not fun to do so tho).
Like waterboarding yourself whilst never dying
No, you still die, because a viscous and therefor slow-moving liquid physically can't remove CO2 fast enough from your lungs. Otherwise we'd have lots of premature babies hanging out in jars.
Unfortunately, in humans CO2 is the thing that gives the "suffocating" feeling, and it takes a long time to actually kill you at modest levels, so that description still applies a bit.
Very difficult to immerse yourself into these, though, because of their density being about 2x that of the human body.
Astroglide
Clarified butter
A non-Newtonian fluid
Homeopathic sleeping remedy.
That's just water. :|
That's the point
Warm egg custard
Hand scrubber wash. You know the hand soap/lotion thing full of beads to scrub your hands clean? Love that. I'd get in a tub of that.
Vegetable oil