SHE WOULD TAKE A BATH

Lifestyle

Jun 22

Lifestyle

SHE WOULD TAKE A BATH

The humble bathtub has always been a soothing corner to read. The washing ritual is associated with luxurious free time that is purely ours, moments to turn pages and get lost a while. Let this passage be a reminder to integrate reading within your intervals of self-care, supported by comforting products from brands close to our hearts.

Life’s most intimate breaths alone are spent in the bath, - a motif reverberated across generations of literature’s creative forms. Slyvia Plath’s Esther Greenwood famously mused in The Bell Jar how “there must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.” The emotional calm ushered when bathing mirrored Plath’s own bathroom affinities; in her journals, she scribed, “I took a hot bath: therapy: the kinks wore out…I rose purged.”

Frequently throughout A Streetcar Named Desire, we observe Blanche methodically bathe to relieve her frantic nerves and wash reminders of her troubled past. In The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, protagonist Lily Bart embraces the bath that “filled her with a pleasant glow” as a momentary respite from her social and financial instability.

Candle by Homework

Reading by candlelight is a familiar literary trope, adding a greater element of joy to any softly lit bath. This Homework candle is infused with solacing notes of bergamot and neroli to replicate the earthy, watery scent of Petrichor, an invigorating and refreshing fragrance to support your bathtime pages.

Such comforting dips serve, both in written works and life, as isolated and technology-free intervals to read. Within these sessions, we seek concise and equally warming pages that trigger the mind to unwind and refocus. We pursue short yet stimulating stories and novellas that are easily perused in one soak, akin to Emma Glass’ Rest and Be Thankful, Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street, or So Many People, Mariana by Maria Judite de Carvalho. Each promises a unique turn of final page, married with a reawakened, still slightly sud-soaked step forward into the day.

We welcome you to invite the following products, carefully curated to pair with our book recommendations, into your bathing routine. Allow them to charmingly adorn your bathroom shelves, mirroring the attentiveness that fills your bookcase with endless chronicles.