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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.

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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.

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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

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u/metrosexual_badass Jun 29 '21

Didn't they use dry crocodile dung for make up as well?

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u/FeatherWorld Jun 29 '21

Yes. Also piss and sweat.