Rubber ducky, you're the one. Rubber ducky, you're so much fun. Even as an adult, bath's are just that little bit more fun with a rubber duck. These ducks from Argos are just gorgeous, really cut little duckies with 'personality'. And they're on sale. You can get the Rubber Ducks Pack of 3 for £1.79 instead of £3.99. That's half price.

• Click here for your rubber ducky from Argos

This is a quacking great deal (groan, I know, who could resist though?). The ducks are yellow (as all the best rubber ducks are of course), and are made of PVC. Each duck measures 10.5cm high, 8cm wide, and 11cm deep. It is out of stock for delivery but when I checked there were plenty at the ten nearest stores to me. You can reserve and collect instore.

There are a number of good reviews on the site. One commenter writes "I bought these for my friends daughter who came to stay with us for the weekend. What can I say? They are my personal childhood favourite and they definitely provided this little girl with bath time fun!"

I didn't have a rubber duck when I was a kid. In fact, we didn't have bath time toys at all. Maybe that wasn't quite the done thing then? I always wanted one though, and was thrilled when one of the presents I was given when my son was born contained a rubber duck. It still sits there on the side of the bath now. This would make a superb gift set.

Thanks to Lucas_Sheffield at HUKD!

Use this The Little Green Sheep promotional code to get 20% off baby products on the site. The Little Green Sheep that specialises in organic and mostly chemical free products.

Click here to use your The Little Green Sheep promotional code

• Discount: 20%
• Promotional code: MB20
• Expires: 31st March 2012

To use this code you need to go through checkout. When you get to page 3, enter it in the Vouchers box. The discount will appear in a slightly odd place right at the bottom of the page.

I tested it out on an Organic Newborn Baby Plush Pouch, and choosing the gift box option, this came to £26.95. Standard delivery is £3.95. So with this added, and the discount of £5.39 removed, the total came to £25.51.

According to the website,  "over 6kgs of Organic Welsh Wool goes into every Little Green Sheep organic cot mattress (6 times more than other natural cot mattresses!)." Sounds like a good place to go shopping, especially if you're looking for that something extra special as a gift.

Thanks to charlene.west at HUKD!

Perhaps I shouldn't have called this feature all you really need for baby bathtime. Because the truth is you don't need anything other than somewhere clean to pop them - and the basin in your bathroom or the sink in the kitchen will do. Until they're on solids, you really don't need to use anything other than water to clean babies.

However, in the real world, we all kind of like to have a little bit more. A proper bath so you don't have to clear out the crocker first is quite nice. Again, you could use a bathtub. When my son was a couple of months old and I was visiting relatives, I just stuck a towel on the bottom of the bath, put in a little bit of water, and then supported him with one hand while I cleaned with the other.

That said, you really don't want to be doing that in the long term. It is a killer on your back. And while it was nice to have a bath with baby, it wasn't always terribly convenient to have to strip and hop in the bath myself.

So what's out there for baby bathtime? Here's the basics, and enough information to let you decide for yourself if you'll need the kit - or not.

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Use this The Body Shop online promotional code to get 25% off your order, including sale items. Might be worth pointing your partner in the direction of this offer, especially with Valentine's Day coming up.

Click here to use your The Body Shop promotional code

• Discount: 25%
• Promotional code: WELCOME
• Expires: unknown

To use this code, go to the Shopping Basket page and enter it in the relevant box at the top of the page. The discount will be immediately applied to your order.

I tested it out on a pot of Coconut Body Butter. This is in one of the special offers on the site at the moment. There's 50% off the top ten best selling products in 2011. The Coconut Body Butter was priced at £12.50. The sale had reduced this to £6.25, and the code took another £1.56 off. Delivery costs £2.99, although it is free on orders over £15.

Thanks to CockneyHarry at HUKD!

The Octonauts bath sets are down from £4.99 to £2.99 at Argos with two different types to choose from. I got one of these for my daughter this Christmas and have to say that the lower price is really more like it, they are not worth nearly £5.

• Click here to get Octonauts at Argos

The undersea exploring Octonauts are on a mission to uncover the mystery of the Great Ghost Reef and you will find either Kwazi and the vampire squid or Captain Barnacles and the octopus in each set.

Each Octonaut has posable arms and legs with a turning head and each sea creature changes colour when it is placed into hot water. The vampire squid goes all spotty and I am not sure what the octopus does. They are quite cute and definitely lots of bath time fun but the lower price is more accurate for what you get.

Now you can get both sets for almost the same price as one.

Thanks to adslis at HUKD!

There's no way I would have paid the original price of £19.99 for this mat, but the Tommee Tippee Heat Sensitive Bath Mat is on offer at Amazon for £7.90. Delivery is free with Amazon Prime. I think this is a much better price. Otherwise just go for a generic, cheap bath mat and use your elbow, that's what I say!

• Click here for your Tommee Tippee bath mat at Amazon

What attracts me to this bath mat is that it is colourful and fun. Especially when you're dealing with toddlers, anything that makes bath time a little bit more attractive is a GOOD THING.

I got one of those bath thermometer things when my son was a baby, and honestly how useless was it? It was meant to be heat sensitive but never seemed to work really. It would say the bath was hot when it was clearly too cold. I found dipping my elbow in, the time honoured method, was a far better solution.

So I probably wouldn't suggest getting this bath mat just because you want to make sure the bath water is the right temperature. But I would recommend getting a bath mat. They add a bit of comfort to the bath, and for slightly nervous toddlers they add a bit of security. Even now my son prefers to get into a bath with his mat, finding the slipperly bottom a little bit unnerving.

The mat offers a quick and easy way to check that baby's bath water is not too hot. The heat sensor will clearly tell you when the water is too hot by spelling it out in the red spot on the seabed. The fun sea characters will also keep your baby entertained while they splash around.

I love things that change colour or glow in the dark. Clearly this is something I’ve never grown out of! Anyway, you can imagine my excitement when I got a Cuddledry colour changing bathmatto review. I think I was more excited than my daughter, the real target market.

To start with the mat comes packaged in lovely packaging that is brilliant to use as storage for other items like towels or, as I do, duvet sets. The bathmat is predominantly green in colour and doesn’t have a non-slip base. As we have a tiled bathroom floor, this was a problem for me. I dislike risking my neck.

So, the solution was to place the Cuddledry colour changing bathmat on top of my usual bathmat. It worked a treat. As do the colours. The bathmat changes from the aqua green into bright neon yellow with body heat. When my daughter got out the bath and saw her footprints magically appear, well, that was IT. She was beyond excited.

Cue many hours of her wetting her hands in the sink and making handprints, shapes and even doing writing on the Cuddledry colour changing bathmat. The colour changing is, I can assure you, very cool indeed.

The mat also washes up a treat. No mess and no fuss. You don’t need special temperatures or washing powders. Just stick it in and go. This got high marks in my book.

There are only three things I found to be a problem with the Cuddledry colour changing bathmat. The first is the lack of grip for slippery floors. The second is the price - £19.99 is steep, even with the cool factor. And finally, I never, ever got a footprint like the one in the picture. Water slops everywhere when you get out…

Would I get these? Yes. They are enormous fun, last for ages and ages, wash well and would be astonishingly brilliant gifts.

We were given the Waterslide Playset as a gift because my daughter loves bath time and has a bath full of toys, but nothing with slides and gadgets, so we were thrilled to receive it. The person who bought it had clearly not read any of the reviews on it, and I’m afraid I’m in full agreement with the reviewers – it’s the worst toy we’ve ever had.

On paper is sounds great: “Watch the bath time friends whizz down the slide and make a splash in the tub. Pour water in the wheel and watch it spin. It comes with suction cups that attach firmly to the bath.”

What I can say for it is that it looks like it’s going to be fun, and that the suction cups do attach firmly to the bath.

Unfortunately that’s about it.  The whole thing comes apart really easily, but isn’t as easy to put back together.

Every time one of the ‘bath time friends’ comes through the flap at the bottom, it falls off, needing to be reattached. (Can you say annoying??) And that’s if the friends get that far. There’s little to no whizzing as they  pretty much get stuck all the way down.  It’s clearly a design flaw as the most important part of the toy is the fact that the ‘friends’ slide down it.

The waterwheel works well, and if you pour water into it, it tips out and the water runs down the slide, but that’s not enough to make the hippos on tubes slide down.

Overall, this is a very disappointing bath toy and I wouldn’t bother with it at all. If it worked it would still be pricy for what it is (at £14) but without working it’s an absolute waste and definitely not the quality you expect from ELC.

Tesco is selling a range of body bath sets at a buy one get one free special offer. The prices range from as little as £3, all the way up to around £20. What you get depends on what you like and there are some ace Christmas stocking fillers here.

• Click here to get some bathing with Tesco Direct

Buy two items and get the cheapest free so if you happen to nab to deals at £3, you are only spending £1.50 per bath set. In the £3 range you can choose from Tesco Fruity Fizzers and Tesco Floral Secrets Bathing Roses.

The £4 range includes Tesco Extracts Soap Collection, Tesco Fruity Lip Glosses, Tesco Floral Secrets Soap Collection, Tesco Fruity Shower Selection, and plenty more. In fact, this selection of bath products is pretty good so you will end up paying only £2 per item if you nab two or more of these.

Thanks to k8ie1980 at HUKD!

Use this Oh Baby London promotional code to get 20% off your order. The code works on sale items, so a nice extra discount.

Click here to use your Oh Baby London promotional code

• Discount: 20%
• Promotional code: XMASTIME
• Expires: unknown

To use this code, go to the Basket page, and enter it in the Discount Coupon box. It is applied automatically to your order. Delivery on the site is £3.50, or you can collect instore for free.

I tested it out on a really cute I Love My Mum baby set - you get hat, t-shirt and bib in a rather cool tin lunchbox. A really nice gift, and reduced at the moment from £30 to £15. The code took another £3 off that, so including delivery my order came to £15.50.

There are some really unique items on this site. I particularly liked the bathtime rubber ducks - you can get guardsmen ones, and even the Queen.

Thanks to SeeBell at HUKD!

Christmas gifts often tend to include bath items. From those vile cheapo packs of perfumes and lotions to yummy and scrummy towels and bathrobes. It’s clear which side of the fence I sit on, isn’t it? I really do love getting fresh and crisp new towels as a gift, or a yummy new bathrobe. So, this lovely 15% discount should come in handy for those of you like me.

• Click here to get some towels at Towels R Us

The 15% discount at Towels R Us is part of their new launch website that has lots of lovely new products for you to choose from. I have used them before, I had a blanket embroidered for a friend of mine, and they were quick and well priced.

The code that you need to get your lovely 15% discount is TRUS002. You can use this to buy anything from cushions to bathrobes to kitchen items and more. Many of the items can be personalised with the recipient’s name or a little love note. I have always been a sucker for personalisation so this is a great deal in my books and it is valid until midnight tonight!

The Argos eBay store is selling a brand new and shiny Timmy Time bath set for a mere £2.79, the extra cost is the 99p delivery charge. I find it quite amusing that Argos charge a fortune for deliveries from their main site but such a meagre amount for their eBay site.

• Click here to get Timmy Time with Argos

The Timmy Time Argos bath set comes with two adorable items that any little fan of the show will enjoy. I rather enjoy Timmy Time myself actually, this is one of those kiddie shows on CBeebies that makes me laugh.

The bath set is, apparently, fine for both genders – a fact that also amuses me. I mean, this whole gender specification thing is so daft. Anyway, the set includes a bath and shower gel as well as a Timmy Time printed sponge. The sponge is dead cute actually with the image printed on the top.

Thanks to barky at HUKD!

When I was given this Arm & Hammer My Way! Spinbrush for my daughter I was extremely sceptical. An electric toothbrush for a five-year old? Really? I was willing to bet that she would cut and run the moment she felt it vibrating against her teeth.

The My Way! Spinbrush isn’t entirely standard fare. It’s very gadgety and has been rather cleverly designed to attract a child’s attention. It can be customised with stickers. And they give you a LOT of stickers in the box. We still have three sheets of them floating about the house.

The stickers for the “girls” toothbrush consist of rainbows and pinks, purples and flowers, unicorns, princesses and castles. The boys get footballs and cars and other such exciting things. You have enough letters to write most names on the brush.

The sticker part was a hit. She spent absolute ages painstakingly sticking them onto her brush and getting them right. Then she spent some time getting used to the switch to turn it on and off by brushing my chair, the lounge suite and the table. Obviously the brush needed cleaning…

She has been a lot more focused when it comes to brushing her teeth since she started using this. I was completely wrong about her hating it. She loves the vibration, loves the way her teeth feel afterwards, and now I don’t need to nag nearly as often. Bonus.

So, those are the pluses. And the negatives? Well, you can’t change the brush. The batteries, yes, but not the brush. So, if you are one of the Good Teeth People you will have to bin it after three months which is bad for the planet. However, it costs only £5.99 at Boots or Tesco which is marginally more expensive than a standard brush, and does clean more efficiently. Overall, I have to admit, this is a surprisingly good product.

Green People are celebrating National Parents Week a tad early with some ace discount codes for mums and dads. National Parent Week is from 17-23 October and while you aren’t going to get backrub fairies show up in your garden, it seems a good enough excuse to shop.

• Click here to get some discounts at Green People

To celebrate the week, Green People are offering some exclusive discounts. For mums they have a Moisturising Shower Bath scented with Neroli and Mandarin to rejuvenate the skin and leave it feeling super soft and silk. This normally costs £10.95 but if you quote PARENTMUM you get it for £7.

For dads there is the super fresh Cool Style shower wash that naturally cleanses, energises and refreshes with organic mint and eucalyptus. This usually costs £10.50 but if you quote PARENTDAD you get it for a mere £6.

These discounts are exclusively for these products and you can either quote them online or call them to place your order yourself. Perhaps a treat for you and your partner?

Superdrug is currently offering free delivery on all orders and up to 50% off a wide selection of skincare and make-up products. If you combine these offers with their two £5 or £10 discount codes then you can get even better value for money. In short, get some lovely Christmas gifts here!

• Click here to get discounted at Superdrug

Until 24 December 2011 you can get free delivery on all Superdrug orders. Then, the Sanex and Andrew Collinge skincare ranges are now down to 50% off as well as a bunch of other fab products. The ones that stood out for me include the Olay Anti-wrinkle 2-in-1 day cream and serum for only £5.99 and the Ooh La Spa pampering indulgence collection for only £5.99.

There are face masks, skin masks, body lotions, foot butters, face washes and detox scrubs all included in the sale. In fact, you are likely to find a ton of fabulous items here for both yourself and for grandparents, sisters, in-laws and more, many of them really great value for money.

Get £5 off orders over £20 with the code MIRROR5 or £10 off orders over £50 with GIFTGUIDE11. Have fun!

Thanks to tasi124 at HUKD!

My first every experience of Champneys was in the bathroom of one of the poshest hotels I’ve ever stayed in. It was a romantic weekend away and I even helped myself to the left over shampoo that we didn’t finish. So in my mind, Champneys has always been a really luxurious brand.

A few years later I was really surprised to find it, not only in Boots, but at a really affordable price too, and since then, I’ve always had at least one or two Champney products in our bathroom – which is no where near as posh as the hotel.

Recently I started using the Champneys Spa Treatments Relaxing Dream Bath, which is a lavender scented bubble bath, which they promise will leave you feeling relaxed and your skin moisturised.

First off, the ingredients. It’s not a bubble bath I’d recommend for someone with sensitive skin or eczema, as it contains SLS, Parfum and a couple of other hard to pronounce names. However, if your skin can handle ‘regular’ products, this should go down really well.

The Dream Bath makes tons of bubbles and they last pretty much for an entire bath time – in fact I’ve climbed out the bath and there’s still a good covering of foam, which I found quite unusual. Normally the bubbles are gone long before the water cools down.

The smell is beautiful. I love lavender, but being pregnant I struggle with overwhelming smells, so I’ve loved the subtlety of this.

I haven’t found it hugely moistening, but I can’t really blame Champneys too much for that, as I do have a very dry skin, and never find bath products moisturising.

For £6, I have to admit that I’m quite pleased with Champneys Spa Treatments Relaxing Dream Bath and I would definitely buy it again, if only for the quality of the bubbles.

I have, at the moment, got the worst hairstyle in the world. I am growing it out from a short cut and currently look like a cross between a yeti and a waterfall. I also can’t really afford to go to the hairdresser every month to tidy it up and make it nice so I figured I’d get some hot tips from an expert hair human, Denise McAdam, on how to get great hair on a budget.

Denise McAdam cuts the Queen’s hair. Yep. She actually whips out scissors and slices away at Royal locks. So her tips are bound to get those of us with lesser hair styling skills somewhere good. Well, one hopes so, doesn’t one?

This is a lovely freebie for a mum! I am a fan of Dove actually, I like their ad campaign and have a soft spot for their products, probably because their soap is one of the few that doesn’t dry my skin out. Anyway, if you fancy a free sample of Dove Body Wash you only need to amble on over to their Facebook page.

• Click here to get a free sample of Dove Body Wash

The new Dove Body Wash is all about nourishing your skin deep down to keep it soft, clean and fresh. They have a new ingredient/formula called NutriumMoisture (hahaha) that is a unique blend of moisturisers, enriched with natural lips to restore the strength of your skin.

Once you have ambled on over to the Dove Facebook page, click Like and you’ll be take to the Get your free sample link. Click on this and fill in your details on the form provided. It won’t take you long and you’ll soon have your lovely free sample to enjoy.

I was recently visiting a lesser visited part of the family and met up with hitherto unknown humans that belong to my family tree. The experience was interesting for all the usual reasons and one not so wonderful reason – one of the mums happily left her child in the bath and went to get something to read.

This is probably fine for a child over the age of five, but when the Child Accident Prevention Trust points out that 12 children under the age of four drowned in the UK in 2008, that becomes a little scary. Children can drown in as little as 5cm of water. I know, insane, right? But true.

This particular deal has been sort of floating around for a while at Boots but I thought it was well worth bringing back into the light, especially as Christmas approaches and we all need to get good pressies without spending a fortune. You can nab this enormous bundle of yummies and goodies for only £35 at Boots and you get 500 advantage card points at the same time.

• Click here to get some beauty at Boots

The Soap and Glory gigantic bundle comes with quite a few lovely products. I’ve used some of their things before and found them quite nice actually. In fact, I preferred some of them to the more popular brands on the market.

The bundle comes with Wash Almighty body cleansing gel, Wizard of Flaws line filling luminiser and concealer, Return to Sender body contouring gel, Slimwear Peptide balm (no clue!), Mighty Mouth gorgeous lips kit, Night In Shining Armour, Sexy Mother Pucker gift set, Calm One Calm All bubble bath, The Greatest Scrub of All, One Pit Wonder deodorant, Spa Butter Up, and the Scrub of your Life body buffer.

Nice!

Thanks to GLENHESKETH at HUKD!