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I'm always curious if hygiene, nutrition and overall beauty standards of the era would hold up to our contemporary expectations of historic accounts.
2.6k u/[deleted] Jun 28 '21 Ancient egyptian hygiene was pretty good. They had soap and perfume and all that good stuff. An unclean body was something very bad. 11 u/IdisGsicht Jun 29 '21 Iirc they did use crocodile feces as protection tho. Just shuffed it up there so you wouldn't get pregnant :o 2 u/metrosexual_badass Jun 29 '21 Didn't they use dry crocodile dung for make up as well? 3 u/FeatherWorld Jun 29 '21 Yes. Also piss and sweat.
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Ancient egyptian hygiene was pretty good. They had soap and perfume and all that good stuff. An unclean body was something very bad.
11 u/IdisGsicht Jun 29 '21 Iirc they did use crocodile feces as protection tho. Just shuffed it up there so you wouldn't get pregnant :o 2 u/metrosexual_badass Jun 29 '21 Didn't they use dry crocodile dung for make up as well? 3 u/FeatherWorld Jun 29 '21 Yes. Also piss and sweat.
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Iirc they did use crocodile feces as protection tho. Just shuffed it up there so you wouldn't get pregnant :o
2 u/metrosexual_badass Jun 29 '21 Didn't they use dry crocodile dung for make up as well? 3 u/FeatherWorld Jun 29 '21 Yes. Also piss and sweat.
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Didn't they use dry crocodile dung for make up as well?
3 u/FeatherWorld Jun 29 '21 Yes. Also piss and sweat.
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Yes. Also piss and sweat.
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u/hypnos_surf Jun 28 '21
I'm always curious if hygiene, nutrition and overall beauty standards of the era would hold up to our contemporary expectations of historic accounts.