Wine bath
A young woman is drenched in wine during the Wine Battle in Haro, northern Spain, on June 29, 2015. Reuters/Vincent West

Sorry, Amar'e Stoudemire: Wine bathes are pretty much useless.

Wine has antioxidants. Antioxidants make you healthy. Might as well bathe in wine, right?

Truth be told, antioxidants are generally believed to delay cell damage. However, it's also true that bathing in wine isn't the best way to get antioxidants into your body. A better way would be through drinking red wine, which some research has suggested can help prevent heart disease.

Using a cream or a lotion would even be more useful, says the Chemical & Engineering News vlog Speaking of Chemistry, because if there was a chance of osmosis, lotion would allow for the antioxidants to stick to the skin better.

Wine baths have been receiving some renewed attention after NBA player Stoudemire posted an Instagram photo of himself bathing in red wine. Stoudemire told ESPN that wine baths help him recover. Here's hoping the baths help the NBA vet recover his form after signing with the Miami Heat after several down seasons with the New York Knicks.

Some spas in New York also offer "red wine rituals" for $500 -- $550 on weekends. And, that is actually a steal. The average bath tub holds 36 gallons, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. Therefore, you’d need 182, 750 milliliter bottles of merlot to fill it. If you purchased that from Amazon -- its cheapest bottle is $9 -- it would be $1,638 and that's not including shipping, tax and potential legal expenditures.

Glass of Merlot: Good. Bottle of Merlot: Better. Bath of Merlot: Not so much.