People who regularly swim in chlorinated pools or take lots of showers or baths are at an increased risk of cancer.
Swimming too much – or even taking too many baths or showers – could increase the risk of developing bladder cancer, warn environmental health experts. Carcinogenic chemicals called trihalomethanes (THMs), created as a byproduct of chlorinating water, can be absorbed through the skin, they say.
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Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase 2009
‘Baby Showers’ product is a baby bath tub that is going to keep a baby warm at all times during bathing time and you will be able to use both hands safely to wash your baby while baby stays wet and warm.
Continue reading… “‘Baby Showers’ – Keeps Baby Warm During Bathtime”
Soaking in a bathtub is relaxing. Staring at the stars is also relaxing. So I guess it’s only natural to assume that combining the two is even more relaxing. Right?
Continue reading… “The Nirvana Bathtub – Like Bathing in a Planetarium”
You are sound asleep when suddenly a piercing noise jolts you out of bed. You slowly slink to the bathroom and flip on the lights. Your eyes are assaulted with the goriest of sights – a shower curtain smeared with bloody hand prints and a bath mat stained with bloody footprints. Your heart is now racing; there’s no way you’re going back to sleep now. Which is perfect because the piercing noise was your alarm clock, the gory sight was your new Horror Movie Shower Curtain & Bath Mat, you’re now fully awake, and it’s time to get ready for work. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Scary Horror Movie Shower Curtain And Bath Mat”
Is this the toilet seat that Darth Vader would chose for his personal quarters on the Death Star? I personally think that, being a busy little bee, the Dark Lord has someone else to go for him, but you’ve got to wonder whether he was the inspiration for danish firm Pressalit’s self-closing toilet seat. Continue reading… “AutoClose Toilet Seat”
All of us who see bathing and showering as an inefficient practice, and have been waiting for a technical innovation to make it still more effortless, could feel delighted with the introduction of the Avant’s Santelubain 999, an automatic human washing machine. Best introduction for salons etc. a user on slipping into the washing machine has a plethora of things to use and chose from only at a touch of a button, which makes this an eye-grabber wherever it is.
Continue reading… “Automatic Human Washing Machine”
Logical Zebra writes “Australia, in an effort to curb water use during a drought, is proposing a new tax. Households would be charged per flush of the toilet. Continue reading… “Tax On Toilet Flushes”
The Whipped Cocoa Bath is an additive created in 2004 for when times get tense and rough. It presents a scented escape from the mundane and stressful, and when added to a spa (bath) it produces the visual and sensual effects of sitting in a large cocoa bathtub. Continue reading… “Whipped Cocoa Bath”
So some Russians had a bathroom design contest and they came up with this toilet, named “Mrs. Hudson” for some reason. I have no idea why. Maybe Mrs. Hudson is known for huge steaming BMs and affectionately called the pisser behind closed doors. It’s as good a guess as any.
Continue reading… “Toilet or Pipe?”
Have you ever seen a kid so dirty you wish you could just tie him up to a tree and spray him down? Or a diaper so messy you just want to grab the kid and repeatedly dipping him into a warm tub filled with soapy water? Unfortunately, the modern tub is too big and showers too messy for either method.
Continue reading… “Great Mothers Day Invention – Automatic Baby Bottom Cleaner”
