| Most Western bathrooms, besides lacking a toilet | | | | Building toilet seat bidet showrooms is expensive and |
| bidet, also lack an electric socket near the toilet, | | | | some analysts estimate this year will be the year |
| something that people in Japan, where central heating | | | | that bidet faucets, bidet seats, bidet hand shower |
| is rare, were keen to install when the posterior wash | | | | and toilet bidets will make their mark. |
| with seat-warmer bidet washlet was introduced. | | | | Some analysts gloat that the cultural barrier seems to |
| But after making some inroads in the US with more | | | | be more transparent in the US than the European |
| modern home designs, especially since the advent of | | | | market, where toilets bidets have few marketing |
| low-flow toilets in the 1990s, finally, bidet washlets | | | | distributors and sells a much fewer bidet toilet seats |
| are starting to make an impression. | | | | per annum. |
| Make the trip to the bathroom a real bidet toilet | | | | Some analysts speculate that Europeans are not |
| experience is what many people are doing. Bidet | | | | more interested in the toilet seat bidets, because |
| Manufacturers are making some inroads in the US | | | | they have are culturally attached to their old |
| with more standard models of toilets and bidets, | | | | fashioned bidets and poor plumbing and sanitation for |
| especially with the bidet toilet seat being introduced | | | | generations. But everyone agrees that the US is an |
| only in the last ten years, The combination toilet | | | | aggressive health oriented culture that will consume |
| bidet continues to penetrate the American culture. Its | | | | the wc bidet products. |
| US seat bidet and bidet faucet sales, have risen to | | | | Any cultural barriers that seems now, just too hard |
| over 7,000 units a month this year from 1500 in | | | | to break, will break. That includes the European |
| 2005. The trendy bidets toilets US market is the | | | | market where sales are lagging to under 15,000 bidet |
| same as what was seen in Japan in 1990 not long | | | | washlets annually, running just higher than American |
| after the first high tech bidets toilet was released. | | | | consumption. The Truth is just because Europeans |
| Since then markets have sprouted for not only the | | | | are used to the bidet, does not mean that they'd be |
| toilet bidet combo, but also the hand bidet and the | | | | more interested. And no one is quite sure just why |
| shower bidet. | | | | they aren't. |
| But marketing the bidet seat has not payed off yet. | | | | |