Hello from our bath tub! I’m writing this to you while gleefully submerged in foamy lathery goodness and while I wouldn’t normally recommend bringing your laptop into your tub (not sure if this thing has the toaster effect or not but still sounds like a bad idea for many other reasons), today, it felt appropriate! Because we’re talking all about tub stuff!

We’ve had our tub for a few months now, and in that time we’ve both tried our best to really perfect the art of the bath. I’m no algebra whizz, but here’s a bit of bathematics for you: Good Smelling Soapy Things + Candle + Good Music + Cold Beverage + Something To Read + A Rack To Hold It All - Everyone Else = Perfect Bath. Quite a formula!

For good smelling soapy things you’ve got your bath salts and bubble baths, and I highly recommend you stock up on several options so you can choose whichever is right for the mood you’re in. We’re trying to create an experience here, and starting out bath time by selecting from 3 - 5 soaking options? That’s luxury baby. Recovering after a hard workout? Hit up that Epsom salt. Having an evening wind-down cocktail moment in the tub? Grab the fancy salts with the dried flowers. Want to feel like a kid again and / or take a bunch of Instagram photos? Reach for that bubble bath.

Next up: candles. As with soapy things, it’s nice to have a few options of candle, but if I’m being honest with you I normally just burn through one that I love and then buy a new one, rinse and repeat. So do with that what you will! Our favorites are linked below.

For Good Music, you can either create your own bath tub playlist, or if you’re someone who takes a glamorous bath multiple times a week, maybe it’s best to have a dozen or so favorites to cycle through depending on mood. Here’s some starter playlists from Spotify: for tranquil baddies who love a good beat try POLLEN; for something more elegant and loungy try French Café; and for something you can fall asleep to try Soothing Spa Sounds (but don’t fall asleep to it dude you’re in a tub!!).

As for cold beverages and something good to read, we’re sure you can pick that out on your own. Our favorites are a sparkling wine or refreshing white wine like albariño or Chablis, and recent reads we’re loving are Swing Time by Zadie Smith and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.