How did people historically maintain hygiene prior to modern anti-bacterial soap?Did everyone just walk around with constant pink-eye?
>>18578440They wash their hands with water to keep the dirt out and then dump their shit and piss into the river. Much like the Indians today.
>>18578440the ancient Romans used scented olive oil and water once a week which to be honest sounds miserable, especially in the hot humid Mediterranean, but it's all they had
>>18578440In ancient greece after exercising people would clean up by having a slave cover their entire body in olive oil then scraping it off with a long flat tool, like a big butter knife with no edge. This apparently removes dirt and sweat and makes you smell nice. The greeks thought the romans were weird and effeminate for bathing with soap and water instead of doing this. Only greek women bathed.
>>18578440>How did people historically maintain hygiene prior to modern anti-bacterial soap?Water. If you were lucky enough to live somewhere with public baths you would use those. Otherwise you would just take a dip in the local river, which was usually also the local sewage system, as well as the local water supply.
>>18578440Most people don't regularly bathe with anti-bacterial soap now. And you probably shouldn't. In addition to the oil scraping other anons have mentioned, saponified fat soap was already in use in antiquity. That was still used up until very recently when people mostly switched to synthetic detergents that operate in a similar way (mechanical removal of filth rather than trying to kill it) just without the high alkilinity that's hard on skin and hair.
>>18578477>as well as the local water supply.Cities used aqueducts or groundwater wells instead of rivers for drinking water. They knew even in antiquity that river water was too polluted with raw sewage to drink.
>>18578515Dumb retard. Find me an aquefuckingduct in neolithic cities in 7000BC.
>>18578456You stupid fucker.
>>18578440Disease and illness were common, yes.
>>18578440ytpeepoo didn no how to bathe until Blax tought em 13500 BCE.
>>18578440They used water as well as sand for its abrasive quality. The ancient Greeks and Romans used oil with something called a strigil that was used for scraping. Soap is way more ancient than people think as it goes all the way back to ancient Babylon around 2800 BC.
>>18578452They had soap, I hate this meme. You can make soap out of olive oil. Stop listening to retarded nordicists.
>>18578515Not everyone lives in cities with aqueducts.
By the Bronze Age? Soap had been invented.During the Neolithic Revolution? They had constant pink-eye and died from a host of zoonotic diseases.Mesolothic and before? Tiny population density in band societies.
Wow you guys are stupid as fuck... you realize that nature produces plants that have antibacterial properties? Indians use some kind of nut that produces foam when mixed with water and that's like a soap/shampoo
>>18579067>you realize that nature produces plants that have antibacterial properties? Indians use some kind of nutGood morning, sir
>>18579070Bloody bastard bitch, your mom is as ignorant as you whore
>>18579077I'm still not buying your super special Ayurvedic soap, bro.
>>18578440They had soap.Fucking Sumerians and Babylonians had soap and records from 3000 BC mention it as something trivial, so humanity has had soap for longer than we've had writing.
>>18578440Chances are, you didn't wash yourself neurotically all day with antibacterialantisepticantifungal goychemicals as a kid, and you were fine. People used to live just like this. If they got dirty they washed themselves. They didn't mind some natural scents that all living beings carry.
>>18578909Animal fat and wood ash too.
>>18578456>a long flat tool, like a big butter knife with no edgea strigil
