Hygiene 18th century Europe

Today we appreciate the personal hygiene, but until the early 18th century a person could in his life never to dive into the water. Many people believed that bathing - it is an unhealthy thing as "soaking" of his body in water, especially hot, allows various types of diseases and infections enter the body. Even if people still dare to take a bath, he did it with clothes! This tradition has been preserved until the end of the 19th century.

Until the 1880s, people did not think about creating a deodorant: despite the fact that most of them most of the time very bad smell, no discomfort from that they have not experienced. Rich tried to mask the bad smell lots of spirits, which led to even more disastrous results.

It is worth noting that in the 9th century scholar Ziryab (Ziryab) proposed the idea of ​​creating underarm deodorant, but it did not take. Up until 1888, the year nothing like that existed. And this year has begun mass production of the first deodorant, which had phenomenal success in the west. These deodorants are available today, they are marketed under the brand name "Mama».

Women do not treat hair on his body. In the western world the removal of body hair was not common until the 1920s. Certainly today there are countries where women do not take anything with her hair on the body, but for most it was a natural part of personal hygiene.

The house at that time smelly natural secretions of the human body. There was no running water, and most people are relieved in the pot, which could leave as long as one does not dare to throw its contents into the nearest window. Later, the pots were kept in some homes, when it created an open toilet. Even in the Victorian era, the pots were used as emergency toilet at night.

Toilet paper was coined in the late 18th century, and until then, people used the materials at hand. The rich could afford the luxury wipe rags. Poor use old rags, leaves, moss and hands. Even the ancient Romans lived better than they used for this purpose cloth wound on a stick, and then dipped it in a bucket of water.

Infection with bed bugs and insects taken in the 18th century rampant. They were considered the norm. These insects were undoubtedly cause the spread of many diseases. They remained a constant problem until modern times. In the Victorian era, women were encouraged to wipe the bottom of the bed with kerosene to kill unwanted guests.

Some women during the critical days cloth used, and often the same; Moreover, these grafts were dried in a conspicuous place at the same time with other things, absolutely nothing shy. Therefore, it was better not to look over the fence to the neighbors. However, there were also those women who did not use anything, and allow gravity to "do their job».

In large cities, the streets smelled of a mixture of manure, human excrement and rotting plants. When you next see in the movie, as a man of the 18th century gallantly throws his cloak on the ground to his lady passed, remember: it is likely that it covers not puddle.

Dental hygiene was a toothpick and use cloth wipe the gums. Women tend teeth were in a worse condition than men due to loss of vitamins during pregnancy.

For wealthy people Marvis Italian company in the early 1700s began to produce the toothpaste (they still continue to produce it). But frankly, the people were more puzzled buying meat than Italian toothpaste.

Absolutely everyone at the time was infested with lice. And they chose a wonderful treatment for this: mercury! In the 18th century in Europe was having an affair with mercury. They ate it, rubbed into the skin, become crazy and died. As for the "positive" aspects - first it was killing lice.