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    Alcoholic beverages

    • white wine (but a dip into red would be interesting)
    • beer, for the carbonation
    • champagne, for the bubbles and the decadence of it

    Other liquids

    • sparkling water, a jacuzzi without one
    • rose water (for those who don’t know, it is sickly sweet smelling and very persistent and can be food grade)
    • oil, like sunflower, olive or any other of the like. After, just scrape you body, like the ancient athletes would do
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      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.

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    Water based lube.

    It’d have to be a communal bath though, and I’m inviting you all, even Hairy Steve.

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    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

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    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

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      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.

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      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

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        Wikipedia says donkey milk was used by Cleopatra, not asp milk. Maybe OP meant ass milk and got autocorrected, but that sounds really wrong.

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        what is this? I googled and found nothing

        Ah I got my history slightly wrong, she bathed in donkey milk and just liked asps (a kind of snake)

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          The asses’ milk would moisturize skin. I assume a water rinse though, because old milk stinks and could cause a yeast infection.

          The asp was legendarily her choice to commit suicide, though it was probably an Egyptian Cobra, if it was a snake at all. (Asp bite death is slower and much more painful than cobra bite death.) I have a theory that the asp legend depends partly on the fact it’s easier to rhyme “asp” than Egyptian Cobra. As for snakebite in general, I note that male artists have universally portrayed the snake biting her on her bare booby. That’s not actually a good way to get the venom quickly to the heart/brain/lungs, because boobies are mostly fat, but it makes good pornArt.

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    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.

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    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?

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      Vantablack isn’t really paint, it’s a coating of nanotubes the size of an atom. I wonder what that would feel like.

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      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

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    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.