CHILLZ Ice Bath Chlorine Tablets Recalled: Dose Label Wrong

A product recall for anyone who keeps a home ice bath clean with chlorine tablets leads this week, and it is a UK one. The rest is about where you will be able to sauna next: a £17 million Finnish-style bathhouse planned for Cardiff Bay’s old dry docks, a three-sauna site lodged for the Forth, and a seafront sauna approved in Pembrokeshire.

CHILLZ chlorine tablets for ice baths recalled: the label triples the dose

The Office for Product Safety and Standards published a recall on 1 October 2026 for CHILLZ Crystal Clear Chlorine Tablets for Ice Baths, sold via Amazon. The affected batch, 20260105-01, barcode X002C0RT49, comes in white cardboard packaging, and its label says three tablets are needed. The correct dose for an ice bath is one. Using too many tablets can cause skin reactions, the notice says, especially for people with sensitive skin or who stay in the water for a long time. The product also fails the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Chemicals Regulations 2015.

The supplier, JP Wessex Ltd, has withdrawn the tablets from sale and says it has contacted affected customers directly. If you have a pack whose instructions say “3 tablets for 600ml” and you have not heard from them, stop using it and email info@jpwessex.co.uk for a refund or replacement.

Two points for anyone who doses a tub. Chlorine is something to measure, not guess: a test strip costs pennies and tells you whether you are anywhere near the 1 to 3 parts per million most tubs aim for. And if a tablet pack’s dose looks odd against your tub’s volume, work it out from the volume rather than trusting the box; our ice bath chlorine calculator does that sum, and our best ice baths in the UK covers which tubs filter well enough to need less. The notice is on GOV.UK.

Allas Pool Cardiff: a £17m sauna and bathhouse in Cardiff Bay’s Victorian dry docks

Nordic Urban, the Finnish company behind Allas Sea Pool in Helsinki, plans to turn the Mount Stuart Graving Docks at Cardiff Bay into a £17 million sauna and bathhouse complex, Spa Business reported on 21 September. The 2,000 square metre site would be built around a 25-metre heated outdoor pool, with hot and cold pools, four saunas, a restaurant and café, and terraces over the water. It would be open to the public all year rather than run as a members’ club, and the terraces and a waterside walk would be free to use.

It is still early. The project is at pre-application consultation, a planning application to Cardiff Council is due in October, and building is expected to take two years once permission is granted. Nordic Urban already has a long-term lease agreement with the council and says Cardiff is the first of at least five Allas Pools it intends for the UK and Ireland. The Helsinki original, open since 2017, draws about 800,000 visitors a year.

For now it is one to watch rather than book. If Finnish-style public bathing is what draws you, our piece on Finnish sauna culture explains what to expect, and sauna and cold plunge covers the hot and cold routine an outdoor pool like this is built for. Full report at Spa Business.

Three saunas and three cold plunges planned at Port Edgar on the Forth

Ferry Saunas Limited has lodged plans with City of Edinburgh Council for a sauna site at Port Edgar Marina near South Queensferry, in sight of the Forth bridges, Deadline News reported on 29 September. There would be two buildings: one sauna for 15 people, and a second building holding two smaller saunas for six people each, plus three cold plunge barrels, changing facilities and a reception. The proposed hours are 7am to 10pm, seven days a week, with the last session at 9pm. The site is rough grass outside the Queensferry Conservation Area, and the marina has more than 250 parking spaces. Planners have until 20 November to decide.

Barrel plunges rather than a sea or marina dip is the detail that tells you what kind of session this will be. For what is already open in and around the city, see saunas in Edinburgh. Story at Deadline News.

A seafront sauna at Dale, Pembrokeshire, gets permission

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park planners have conditionally approved a timber-clad sauna and support cabin on land next to Dale Boat Yard, Nation.Cymru reported on 17 September. The applicant, Kay Warrell, proposed opening from 7am to 7pm on weekdays and 6am to 8pm at weekends, with some flexibility around sunrise and sunset. Local businesses backed it: The Griffin Inn said a temporary sauna previously in the village brought “a clear increase in footfall”, and The Boathouse called it “a valuable addition to Dale”.

Dale is a cold water swimming spot already, so this is a sauna for swimmers rather than a spa. No opening date has been reported yet. Our list of saunas across the rest of Britain covers the coastal saunas that are already running. Report at Nation.Cymru.