
10 Hygiene Practices of the Past that will Shock You
The world has constantly evolved and is constantly evolving, so it is not news when we say that in a bid to be neat, our ancestors had some very weird hygiene practices which would utterly disgust anybody from this century. Pretty much most of the things done then would be seen as barbaric acts now. But who is to blame? No one. If were born then, we definitely would have done the same, because we didn’t know better.
Let’s take a look at 10 of them:
1. Bathing
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Bath tubs, showers and personal boreholes were not a thing in the past, and because of that, water was not a very basic commodity. It couldn’t easily be accessed like it is now, in the 21st century. The past centuries had people having to go the stream to have their bath together. Yes, it w...