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Originally Posted by SonshineMama

How do I empty the tub to avoid clogging the pipes.  I read that clay can build up in  your pipes and DON'T want that.  DH had to jackhammer an 18 foot path across our basement and replace tons of pipe in the house that year - don't want to go through that. 

The website said "because bentonite is a swelling, clumping clay" and went on to explain the only clay that won't clog pipes over time is some type of very fine non clumping swelling clay I hadn't heard of

I have limited my kids to foot baths but would REALLY like to do some full body clay baths.   The only thing I can think of it to buy a small baby pool and set it up outside next summer for clay baths

maybe pyrophyilite is what youre thinking?

im not really sure about bentonite and the pipes. I dont use enough in the tub to really be concerned about it, i use the amount that would be similar to just washing a mudy kid off in the summer or somone comming back from the beach, maybe even less, and theres no solid clay or sludge, only way you know its in there is the color of water 
im sure over time, a standard cup full of clay bath would effect pipes though, i wouldnt put large amounts of mud in my tub even if it was my favorite clay 
the baby pool idea seasonally might be on to something. i wouldnt want to use that kind of plastic though. what i would love to be able to do is dig a shallow hole in my yard, fill and hydrate it so its like a spa's clay bath or the natural pits ive been to(wouldnt be warm or bubbling but oh well) then use it for just that summer and fill it in. that would kind of work like what weston price describes earlier people doing. then just taking the clay internally.

we havent needed a clay bath in a long time since i first did the initial ones consistently for weeks.  perhaps we are up for another series. if someone is needing to do clay baths over and over and over, and with enough clay to make you worry about your pipes theres something off? not everyone would agree with me, but i dont think that is the best way to use clay. the goal is for clay to heal and detox, then just maintenance till you need to detox again 
when i had preeclampsia the clay was just as effective for me with way less than the recommended amount so i figure a person in normal health wouldnt need so much either.

oh, and dont add anything to your clay bath or use tupperware to store your clay.