Belle delphine

Instagram model Belle Delphine made waves in the news this month after she decided to sell tubs of her own bath water for $30 a pop. The ‘product’ sold out in just three days, and led to a bountiful trove of online content, including my own review for Spectator USA. But Delphine isn’t the first person to sell bath water to her followers. Shoko Asahara, founder of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo and the man behind the Tokyo subway sarin gas terrorist attack in 1995, which killed 12 people and injured over 1,000 more, also sold his own bath water to devotees who drank it during rituals.

On July 10, 2019, after a week, my order of Instagram model Belle Delphine’s ‘GamerGirl Bath Water’ arrived in the mail. It was a frustrating process to obtain the now-sold out tub, labeled on Delphine’s website as ‘for sentimental purposes only,’ and I had to jump through several hoops before the order could be shipped. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzZFu2AnbZ8/ After paying $33 for order #10100, I waited four days, before receiving an email from the model asking me to reply with a clear statement of understanding that ‘the water should not be consumed, poured upon my body or opened should the seal be broken.