How Tinti’s bath-themed Advent calendar went down with my water-baby daughter
6/11/2026
Translation: Katherine Martin
Pictures: Christian Walker
Tinti’s Advent calendar is packed with bathtime fun and comes at a fair price. Believe me, I’ve opened every door for you. And for my daughter.
Team Bath or Team Shower? While I’m a shower person through and through, my seven-year-old daughter loves nothing more than a long, fun-filled soak in the bathtub. Contrary to what you might expect, she isn’t too bothered about rubber ducks.
No, Zoe considers something else to be the key ingredient of a perfect bath: the water has to be brightly coloured, foamy, fizzy or bubbling – preferably all at once. With this in mind, Tinti’s bath product Advent calendar is just the thing for us. Well, more for her.
Lots and lots of colourful bath products
Tinti is a Heidelberg-based company that’s been developing and manufacturing child-friendly bath products for over a quarter-century. Given the array of colours and effects sported by many of the company’s products, you might think they seem toxic. In reality, though, they’re harmless. All of Tinti’s products are specifically designed for children’s sensitive skin. According to the manufacturer’s website (in German), their skin compatibility has also been confirmed by dermatologists. Granted, I’m not a dermatologist myself, but I can confirm that none of the products have caused Zoe any skin irritation. And she really does use a lot of Tinti products – Advent calendar or no Advent calendar.
To keep Zoe supplied with a decent variety of bath products, I regularly stock up on them when I do our family’s weekly shop. For the next little while, however, the Tinti Advent calendar has got us covered. There’s a wide selection of Tinti products hidden behind its 24 doors, including bath confetti, a bath volcano, mouldable soap and fizzy bath salts.
As varied as the German bath product manufacturer’s range may be, Tinti’s Advent calendar does contain the odd duplicate. For instance, there are four individual bath fizz tabs inside, although I could just as easily buy a pack of four. Tinti also broke down its bath fizz and sponge packs for its calendar. Bath salts, as well as other items, are featured twice too.
Mind you, that’s no big deal. Zoe’s happy with every gift in the calendar, regardless of whether it’s one she’s had before. So, although all of the products are designed for bathtub use, I’d say the Tinti Advent calendar offers plenty of variety.
A lot of products for a little money
I was pleasantly surprised by how many products were included in the calendar. Roughly translated, the packaging says you get «33 portions of bathtime fun behind 24 doors». This isn’t untrue, but it’s a bit of an exaggeration at best. Zoe occasionally ends up with two products in her bathwater at the same time. If I take that into account, there are still enough gifts in the calendar to cover more than 20 baths.
The Tinti Advent calendar currently costs just under 40 francs (as of 5 November 2026). Until recently, it was even cheaper (Christmas, I can hear you coming). However, it’s also been slightly more expensive in the past. Either way, it’s reasonably priced. If I add up the individual prices of the calendar’s products from our range and other stores, I come up with a total of more than 50 francs.
If you’re breaking out in a sweat at the thought of our December water usage and bill, know this: just because Zoe gets a new bath treat every day of Advent, it doesn’t mean she takes a bath every day. Two proper baths a week are enough. On other days, she has a shower. A Tinti-free one, at that.
In a nutshell
This Advent calendar makes a real splash
There’s certainly a lot to the Tinti Advent calendar. It’s packed with different bath products that inject a little variety into bathtime. The price tag is justifiable when you consider that the products cost more when purchased individually.
If your child loves bathtime as much as my daughter does, I can’t think of a better Advent calendar for you right now. Except, of course, the homemade kind. But as is so often the case in life – and yes, during the Christmas period – you can take the easy route, do some things yourself and skip others. Am I right?
Pro
- Contains plenty of different bath products
- Reasonably priced
- Cute packaging
Contra
- Contains a couple of duplicates
Header image: Christian Walker
I'm a full-blooded dad and husband, part-time nerd and chicken farmer, cat tamer and animal lover. I would like to know everything and yet I know nothing. I know even less, but I learn something new every day. What I am good at is dealing with words, spoken and written. And I get to prove that here.
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