Kids Bath Foam

Foam truths

Every now and then, seeking to shed the melancholy and body aches that have marked my middle years, I take myself into a nice warm bath. This, combined with my status as the father of young children, means I know more about bath products, specifically toys and bubbles, than I have known at any time since I was happy and small.

I’m not above taking a bath with my boys, so long as the bubbles are lustrous enough to provide appropriate cover. And I can tell you, these days, commodities have nothing on the bubble market. The volume and variety of products available is stupendous. To give you an idea: if I were to take three baths a week, excepting school and religious holidays, there would be more than enough new, special, and otherwise tempting products to make each bubble bath a new experience for 1,000 years. There is, for example, Kiehl’s Lavender Foaming Relaxing Bath, (£18); Coconut Foaming Bath by the Body Shop (£4); Gloomaway – a Joycean construction – grapefruit body wash and bubble bath (£18) by Origins; bath bubbles from the Yippee Playtime range (£3.99) by Little Me Organics; and Les Bulles d’Agathe ($20), a tube of scented soap by Maison Francis Kurkdjian that comes with an old time bubble wand, because – well, why the hell not?

Meanwhile, for those of us who remember, and wonder about, Mr Bubble, let me say this: he has apparently left the business, gone back to school, and now answers only to “Dr Bubble”.

Here is my routine for a family bath: place boys in tub, turn on water, add bubble bath, turn on Jacuzzi jets, whipping bubbles into a foam, add self. This I applied, without change, to three new and varied products.

Indeed, it occurs to me there should a bubble scale, like the scale astrologists use to indicate the brightness of stars.

Affixed to the label of every tube of bubble bath, it would indicate the average size of the bubbles: soft King David-like curls or tight afro-style coils. A second measure would indicate the bubbles’ lifespan: do they expand and vanish like the black holes ginned up by the Large Hadron Collider, or do they linger?

Vanilla Birthday Cake, while ranking high on coil circumference, barely registers on a duration index. The bubbles came and went like Captain Spaulding, leaving two things behind: a golden residue on the water surface and me terribly exposed. Its companion product, a chocolate cookie formula, resulted in the same anti-climax and shame.

The Breastest News: Review: Sanex Dermo Kids Bodywash & Foam Bath

What Sanex say: "Sanex understands your child’s skin and how it works. That’s why they have created Dermo Kids Bodywash and Foam Bath - a paediatrician approved, hypoallergenic and pH balanced formulation that actively works with your child’s developing skin to gently cleanse and help keep it healthy and nurtured. Sanex Dermo Kids Bodywash and Foam Bath joins a comprehensive family of skin friendly bath and shower products for adults – all designed to actively work with your skin to help keep it healthy and naturally protected." Following babyhood, your child’s skin becomes plumper, giving it that beautiful, smooth appearance and purity that most of us adults envy. By now, their skin is fully active and well hydrated, and should be at its healthiest. However, according to well-known GP, Dr Sarah Jarvis : “At least one in six children gets eczema, and up to one in 12 GP visits relate to some form of skin condition. That’s over 250 GP hours or 48 days worth of surgery a year” Children’s lifestyles have also changed with today’s kids spending over 90% of their time indoors, so the environments of their schools and homes have a dramatic impact on their health, including their skin. Seasonal changes, central heating, air conditioning and hot water can all cause discomfort, making your child’s skin more delicate and prone to itchiness. Other factors that can affect the condition of their skin include not drying properly after washing and the use of bar soap. As I said Logan suffers from dry skin and eczema (sometimes) and because of this we are unable to use bubble bath and quite a lot of bath products because it intensifies the dry skin so Logan has never really been able to have a proper bubble bath as most of the dry skin products that the doctors give you never foam properly which is a shame. So imagine my detail, and Logan's, when the Sanex Dermo kids bodywash and foam bath created a mass of bubbles for Logan to jump into! And… it didn't leave his skin dry! Infact his skin felt soft and moisturised when we dried him off after his bath so we are all very pleased with the results.

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