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The term, bubble bath, has two distinct meanings, depending on whether the bubbles are in, or on top of, the bath water.
Effervescent bath products came into use as effervescent bath salts early in the 20th Century; the bath bomb became a popular form late in that century. The earliest foam baths were foamed with soap, which practice came about shortly after soap flakes were marketed. Saponins were also used to foam machine-aerated baths. Foam baths became more popular with later surfactants, and indeed the earliest recorded public use of an alkyl sulfate surfactant was as bath foam in the original 1936 production of the play The Women. Foam baths became standard practice for bathing children after the mass marketing of products so positioned during the 1960s and thereabouts; the dubious claim had been made that their normal use (diluted in a tubful of water) would clean skin well enough without soap or rubbing.
Machine-aerated baths originated in the early 20th Century for therapeutic use, becoming more widely used with the introduction of the Jacuzzi. Trends merged when the hot tub, which originally had still water, with its increasing popularity became more commonly a communal whirlpool bath. By the late 20th Century jetted bathtubs had become popular for home installation.
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