A lot of people, "I couldn't live." or "Glad I didn't live during that time." etc. Yes you could because you wouldn't know any different and it would've been the normal. With that said, I am super happy to live now and not then 🙂
@@jenniferclark6205 Nah, many people mean it :-) I know because these discussion concerning history and what it was like back then comes up fairly often among friends over the years. Surely, some are just stating it as a figure of speach.
Seriously??? That sounds like something from the agenda. Did you learn it in college, Women's Studies? Sounds like something they'd make up, like our history.
When I was growing up in England we lived in old Victorian row house, the toilets were in a row in the back area. We had to take baths in a portable tub that mom boiled the water for. We had to move due to the fact the houses were part of slums in Birmingham and were being torn down.
@@onblud I’m doing fine, I live in Virginia now. The coal dust and heavy metal particles caused the whole family to have lung issues. My parents moved to the USA to help my lungs improve. We moved near a beach and I didn’t get sick like I did in B’ham.
First of all, everybody just calm down. Let's go back way before the Victorian era. Say, a few hundred thousand years ago, when humans did not bathe at all, save for the occasional dip in a lake or stream or ocean, weather permitting. Somehow these people were able to still come in close contact with each other say, for intimacy. Did they smell horribly bad and just put up with it? No. They actually did not smell bad at all. A few years back, a researcher decided to do a research project on this very issue. She decided to stop bathing or showering to see what would happen. She had several colleagues smell her every few days. After a few days, she started to smell pretty bad, as expected. After a couple of weeks, she smelled even worse. Then something unexpected happened. After about six or seven weeks of not bathing at all, her colleagues noticed she did not smell bad at all. She didn't smell "flowery" or anything like that, but she just smelled "neutral". Why? Apparently, it has to do with bacteria. When we bathe or shower often, say every day, we kill all bacteria: the "bad" bacteria that causes odor, but also the "good" bacteria that kills the "bad" bacteria, just like in our gut with pro biotics. Well, after all that time the "good" or beneficial bacteria that would normally be there for us, took over and killed the bad, odor-causing bacteria, and she stopped smelling bad. THAT is how we humans were able to be with each other, even intimately, many eons ago. Today, we bathe or shower constantly, killing all bacteria, good and bad, and the only thing we can do to continue to not smell bad, is to keep showering and bathing. We humans are a peculiar species.
genuinely i’ve smelled some ppl who just did not shower that much and i’m telling you some of them didn’t even have a smell much at all, at most a greasy oily sorta smell but it smelled like skin
You have to keep in mind that this is an era where the lifestyle was drastically different than it is now. Diet and exercise was way healthier back then, making sweat less of a problem than it is now : sweat now is full of bacteria and chemicals from what we eat, and what we don’t burn since we walk less. No fast foods, no processed foods, running errands and participating in sports or working physically demanding jobs, etc…
A very interesting topic. I too have wondered how the ladies went to the bathroom with all those layers they wore... not to mention if it was that time of the month! thanks for shedding some new light on hygiene solutions over the centuries. I enjoy your videos and look forward to each new one that you post. Thanks for all the effort you put into sharing your insights and interest in history with the rest of us.
I watched a Dr Lucy Worsley program on these problems during the Versaille era and they used a special china device like a large gravy boat slipped up under the Court dress and no one knew what you were doing...lol
Quite honestly I remember people smelling much worse in the 1960s. It was still uncommon to bathe more than once a week in certain households. Clothes were not washed as often, deodorant was not worn by many people, especially men, and perfume would be reserved for very special occasions.
Meanwhile India was a completely different story. Due to not so cold climate, most people would go to river for bathing atleast 2 times a day, or to a lake or wells in the farms. And instead of soaps they would use turmeric and neem paste which have a lot of medicinal properties. And after that sandalwood paste was applied on forehead which has really good fragrance. And for going to number 2, either they would go to forests nearby or to a toilet built outside of the home and never inside, from where the dump was collected every morning by people who were paid to do so. But anyhow cleaning after finishing the job it was ritualistic to wash your backside with water and specially prepared clay with your left hand for 8 cycles and then wash left hand alone with the clay for 8 times and then wash your front side with the same hand for 3 times and then again clean the hand with the clay and water and then wash your legs and after that wash your both hands together with the clay for 8 times. And all of this was done before the sunrise otherwise people would think that you are lazy or sick.
My grandma told me girls/women used rags during their periods. They washed one out and wore another while the first dried. Then they just switched back and forth.
Thank goodness for the invention of reusable menstrual cups and reusable menstrual disks, then, because those rags looked and probably were very uncomfortable and unreliable.
Some of my most favorite programs on historical time periods was the "Farm" series of the BBC. Tales from the Green Valley, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm, Coal House, Wartime Farm. All with modern historians and archaeologists, made to live in a time period for 3 months to a year and filming the year of household chores, farming and holidays. All are available on RUclips in their complete playlist of the seasons.
@@NothingToNoOneInParticular Back in Time for Dinner is another good one if you can find it. Plus the Supersizers is hilarious with Sue Perkins and Giles Coren.
@@nosmallo I like Supersizers Go. lol Giles was such a funny pig. It seems he has about 400 extra muscles in his face and lips when chewing though...adored Sue in that.
Europeans still don't bathe. A friend was allowed a bath only once a week at his guesthouse in Switzerland and the owners thought he was bathing excessively then. Lederhosen, when properly 'broken in' can stand on their own and are never washed. The US Dept. of Health says to bathe once a week for hygeine. Soap manufacturers make money convincing people to kill all the helpful bacteria on their skin and to wash away the natural body oil that is essential for the body to manufacture vitamin D from sunlight. King Henry 8th wouldn't have a woman in his bed if she had had a bath in the last six months.
You supposed to wash only your feet, armpits and balls/pussy everyday anyway. Body needs natural moisturizer and bacteria. "Frequent washing shortens life" goes old saying 😁
when i broke both of my arms a few years ago i realized hoff effective this old way of bathing realy was. it worked realy well to wash just with a sponge soap and a towel,i was never smelly and some skin problems like dry skin etc disapeared. i think its an illusion that you only get clean when youre fully submerged in water.
I agree. I also learned at age 60 from a broken wrist, that I had been overdoing the hygiene all along. I now bathe once a week using only natural products. I would never shave my arm pits or legs again, either. I'm sure all the breast cancer is caused by doing so.
@@edie4321really depends on the type of climate you live in as well. You wouldn’t be able to go a week at a time without bathing in a hot humid climate. You’d end up with all sorts of skin issues.
@@NotLikeUs17, yes, I do live in a dry and comfortable climate. I seriously had forgotten how humidity can affect you. The hotter months, you want to live in a tub. I do feel you. Thanks.
My mother told me that when she was a child, the home she lived in shared a cold water pump in the courtyard of a row of terrace houses. The tin bath they all shared was hung up on a nail outside in the back yard. When I was a child, myself and 2 siblings shared the water of a hot bath on a Sunday evening. Thankfully, the bath was indoors. In the week, my mother would stand us in a tub of water in front of the fire and sponge wash us morning and evening. Water was precious and not to be wasted.
You didn’t mention the saying of ‘don’t throw the baby out with the bath water’ originating from the same time period as when the youngest family member would take their bath last! I remember my grandmother living in a house without a bathroom. She had a tin bath and an outdoor toilet. This was fairly normal for the area at the time. Her kitchen also was primitive, she washed her clothes in a dolly tub and scrubbed them on a wash board before putting them through a hand operated mangle to get the excess water out. They were then hung up on a washing line to dry. This was in the 1960’s.
@@carolewynn9407 I think she's meaning that the baby bathed last. Also, that the water would have been full of germs which wouldn't be good for the baby.
When I was child we washed off every day and took a bath in a tin tub on SATURDAY night. Ibever thought anything about it Im glad I have a bathroom now
And electricity, running hot and cold water, air conditioning, indoor toilets, TV, Radio, Cars, Trains, Planes, refrigerators, freezers, automatic dishwashers, clothes washers and driers...........I'm sure the list could go on and on.
We had the galvanized wash tub as well.we also had a kerosene stove to heat the water on for the tub.spring n summer n early fall we went swimming 🏊. Thank God we got indoor plumbing when I was 5.I hated the spiders in the outhouse n winter time was soo cold🥶
Most women in Europe still do this, I was born in Napoli, Italy and moved to America in the 1970s. I still don't wear underwear unless necessary, keeps a woman cleaner.
@@DaisyChain3339. As a European woman, most of us still wear underwear. There are plenty of different types to fit different types of clothing. Cleanliness and health is more about the fabric type than wearing them in general. There is a group of people who does it, many because they get a kick out of it, but it is very far from the majority. :)
But when everyone did it, it was normal. "Smells bad" is relative. Don't forget that until the 20th century, the majority of people worked on farms, so were smelling manure daily.
Growing up in Appalachia in the early 1960’s, we used a large galvanized washtub in the kitchen, drew up the water from the well, heated the water on our coal stove, poured it into the tub and shared the water between the 3 kids on certain days, and mom & dad shared on other days (after us kids were in bed) 😊 Those were good times, but I admit today is better 😂
In Africa in the rural areas I still remember the smoky scent of bathwater boiled in a tin pail outdoors. Then bucket bath with soap outdoors, galvanized tub outdoors for kids.
Very interesting :=) still it always surprises me no matter how many times I hear it just how LONG it took for germ theory and basic hygiene to become commonplace :=)
What about the issue of menstruation? They used to use strips of cotton affixed to a special belt… I’m 70 old and through my teenage years, we used that kind of belt to hold our pads in place. My mom even remembered using those cotton strips which were washed and reused …This is where the crude expression “on the rag” originated. it was also pre-pantyhose days in my teens- when we used stockings with garter belts… DAMN, my default is kickass but this is making me feel ancient!
In the house where i was born, Netherlands, the 1905 flush reservoir is still hanging and in use. And in the former GDR, where some family from us lived/lives, they even until about 1992 the wooden plank with a hole toilets, like you in this video. On the first floor ( not downstairs) and so it was really deep. My mother told me that when she visited her GDR famiily in 1970, she kept my brothers hand, when he was small, so that he would not fall down in it.
My grandmother who came of age in the late 1900s told me that women sewed rags together to use during their periods. They washed one out and wore the other as it dried!
Of course, there were many, many Victorian occupiers in South Asia and most local people were far, far cleaner than the British Colonials. Daily, full body bathing in the form of religious ablutions, were the norm for many (Hindus, Sikhs, most Buddhists sangha), whilst bathing hands, mouth, nose, face, hair and ears, than ankles and feet 5x a day for Muslims and a ritual (usually) steam bath was common every Thursday night (for Friday prayers). Washing hands and face prior to meals, and hands again afterwards, was also essential as cutlery was, and still is, optional in many South Asian cultures.
Yes, the Hindus took a bath in that filthy, rotting dead bodies river”Ganges”. Need to quitrunning ourselves down because the rest of the jealous world speeds their B S.
@cancandoit Exactly. I'm Ghanian and not bathing has NEVER been a normal thing for us. Even going back to the ancient AKAN people post colonialism, we. Were. Washing.
My mum remembers still using a chamber pot in the 1960s, and having the first light in the house, electric that is. But they had one key rule with the chamber pot only at night and only got a wee. Anything else it’s the out house.
I’m 62 , live in Chicago 32 years . Му life in SSSR was the same . Before i immigrated, I changed 3 places - in Moldova. . In my twenties , having 2 children 3 and 4 , did everything for my kids and me to have place with water and bathroom - hot water everyday and food the best я!!!! I’m proud my self to take care us . In Moldova in 90th was the same !!! We immigrated in 1995 and Happy ! America the best in our life’s . God Bless
People are COMPLETELY different back then, the chemicals in our products cause hormonal imbalances and the toxins and impurities around us doesn’t help either! So yea they might’ve gotten slightly musty but I doubt it’s the same kinda must from nowadays 😂
You do realize that women during this era wore cosmetics that contained lead, arsenic and radium? Lol romantizing the past by saying "products back then didn't have the harmful chemicals they do now!!!" while it's a well-known fact that products back then were extremely harmful is interesting
But still people don't use water to wash after using the toilet. Just wiping with a toilet paper don't help to get rid of smell. I use water since childhood and I can't even image to wipe that area . It creates a bad smell and even cause irritation when we don't wash it with water. I always wonder that even in this era, people still don't use water in toilets.
My father talked about when deodorant was first widely available and used, something I had never considered. When I asked what people did, he said everyone smelled and it was just excepted.
Deodorant is one thing, but Anti-Perspirant is far better. When I was in my teens in the 60s, my mother gave me deodorant for my armpits. Great! But I quickly realized that it simply created a perfumed sweaty smell, which fooled no one. I guess the Victorians had the same problem.
It's a pity you didn't mention Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the hero engineer who designed the London sewage system after the great stink. His name should be better known. The Great exhibition of 1851 popularised the flushing toilet, which let to a huge increase in the amount of water used, which overloaded the old system. It is ironic that a hygiene product caused such a horrible situation.
There are alot of Americans who dont shower regularly. Thanks to body sprays, perfumes, dry shampoo you probably dont notice. I washed my hair for most of my life everyday. My hair didnt grow fast, had a bad texture. For the past 15 years I was my hair once a week maybe twice once in awhile. My hair is now like silk 3/4 of the way down my back. By letting the natural oils stay in it gave me a beautiful head of hair.
But still people don't use water to wash after using the toilet. Just wiping with a toilet paper don't help to get rid of smell. I use water since childhood and I can't even image to wipe that area . It creates a bad smell and even cause irritation when we don't wash it with water. I always wonder that even in this era, people still don't use water in toilets.
As a child of the 70's and the youngest of four, i took many baths in water that was used before. Sometimes we took them together. Not my fondest memories.
There was a show on TV a number of years back titled "Victorian House", in which the actors lived like Victorians. The men didn't have it too bad, but the women, when they had their periods, had a particularly nasty time. What they used to absorb the blood, then how they had to clean up, was very unpleasant. However, that is the way it was, there were no alternatives, and they considered it all a part of life.
I suggest reading “At Home: A Short History of Private Life” by Bill Bryson, its such an enjoyable book about different fun facts from the victorian era (main focus) and english life.
Wouldn't one just heat the water with the gas then shut it off? I wonder how much we take for fact is actually only a few cases blown up. I would hope people could handle testing the water temperature and getting out if too warm. I have several Victorian home help books and booklets and several suggested wiping the armpits with amonia or vinegar to prevent odor.
The way you explained watching a movie at the beginning is legit how I watch movies sometimes. I hyperfocus on a detail, like how on earth did they travel so fast or why do they still look that good after travelling for a long time. And that can ruin a movie for me.
Scarlett O'Hara said her mother always smelled of verbena sachet. Bein that they lived in the Deep South and they also wore hoop skirts and woolens and silks, people often just used lots of perfume.You need to see one of my favorite films "Perfume" about Paris in the 1700's.
It's June 20, 2024 and I was just thinking about the suspense thriller movie PERFUME this evening! Ive watched that movie about 5x over an extended period of time. It FINALLY occured to me the reason that young man couldn't 'distill' the scent of his last victum was because the reason her scent was driving him wild w desire is because he had detected *HER* scent while she was ovulating. Here's how I came to my *hypothesis* . . . When I was in my late 20's I was a serious body builder. I was good friends w the gym owner. One day he said to me casually "I can always tell when it's close to your time of the month". I FROZE on the inside because a childhood bicycling accident had left me w a broken nose and no sense of smell. So I ventured to ask " Really? Do I stink? I do take a tub bath everyday and apply deoderant". "No, you don't stink. You just smell differant before your cycle. It's not at all unpleasant. But it is your scent". I didn't do The Pill so what he was actually smelling was my natural scent of pheromones signaling I was ripe for getting pregnant. Do you think my *hypothesis* works to explain that last victim in PERFUME?
But still people don't use water to wash after using the toilet. Just wiping with a toilet paper don't help to get rid of smell. I use water since childhood and I can't even image to wipe that area . It creates a bad smell and even cause irritation when we don't wash it with water. I always wonder that even in this era, people still don't use water in toilets.
The poor ordinary working classes in English towns would often have a tin plated iron bath hanging up on a long nail on a back wall of their houses this would be taken down at least once a week and taken into the kitchens water would be heated on the stove or fire then mixed with coldwater and usually the kids would go in first then they would be put to bed then mum then it would be dads turn. This was very normal my grandfather and my father’s old aunts were victorians. Grandads house still had the old tin bath and as a very young child afterwards falling into mud I was made to use it. Much to my embarrassment. Victorian working people did not particularly smell of sweat they smelled of pipe smoke and beer and the the old ladies smelled of lavender and Lilly of the valley
Hello, stop stereotyping India . Indians where and are more hygienic than West. In India people bathe 3 times a day , not like you people . The recent state of India is because of colonial loot. You bloody westners.
In part, probably yes. However, everything else also had a stronger smell, so the body odour may not have been so bad in comparison. Modern people have also become a bit more 'delicate' in their sense of smell, because modern air pollution don't smell in the same way, and we are raised with a daily shower and highly effective soap. The average modern human would not last 5 minutes in the past, because they have been raised in a gilded cage, and stick their nose up for anything less than perfect.
@@HereIAm247 not everybody stink back in those days. The Moorish people who went to Europe taught them how to properly bathe themselves. Did you know Chanel 13 was a perfume used to mask the smell there? Even in Egypt they were taught how to properly bathe during the pyramid era. So yes people from today could make it back then (depending on what area you dropped them in)
@@HereIAm247 but the point I'm making is the Victorian era started in 1837. There were eras before 1837 who valued cleaning their bodies. So why did that trait get pushed to the sideline?
Speaking of wedding days, there was a tradition in which weddings were celebrated at the beginning of the summer. The reason was simple: most people couldn’t take a shower throughout the year due to the lack of water or, because the weather was severe or too far away. In that case, the only way to celebrate weddings is when they could take a shower, which was usually in the summertime.
Here I sit in the bathroom, looking at the wash basin in the corner that was my great grandmas. Her chamber pot is in the garage. An antique closet chair is sitting on the front porch. I have personally used a real bonified outhouse in the 90s and 2000s because my familys river cabin did not have plumbing. I thought it made me super cool at a kid. I kinda still do. But man am I greatful for this fancy ass 1980s flush toilet
Social class had a lot.to do with hygiene. Fun fact: as late as 1960, the very poor who loved in tenements in London's East End did not have bathrooms. There would be an outhouse behind the building, or, if lucky, a toilet for common use at the end of each hall. Water came from a standpipe in the courtyard and was carried up four or five flights in buckets. Private bathrooms werent common for poor folks until slum clearance in the mid 1960s.
My grandparents were Victorians and grew up in poverty but they were always immaculate and clean.....my Grandma used to smell of green "Fairy" soap.....they used it to wash everything.
@@asia_nzeako Funny that you call other people "funky" if you have to take 2-3 showers every single day to stay clean. That African heat must be something. Must make you musky as hell. How disgusting. :D
@@asia_nzeako Funny that you call other people "funky" considering that you have to shower 2-3 times a day just to stay clean. Literally nobody does that, not even in first world countries. That African heat must be something.
Perfumes were to cover body odor. Today we wash but people still use perfumes for enjoyment. The BAD NEWS is unless you are using aromatherapy, you are using toxic chemicals on your skin.
In Europe they still believe bathing more than once a week is considered unhealthy. Dated several ladies when i was stationed in europe that smelled ripe in summer time.
Really? Danish woman here, and everyone I know shower every morning. If you were to skip a day, it would be heavily frowned upon. If you smell bad, it will definitely be noted.
@@HereIAm247 my aunt& uncle who live in frankfurt bath once a week. my wifes mother in germany the same. brother in law who is german baths once a week. smell ripe but it is what is is.
My mom was born in the twenties and grew up in the Depression era. She said her living situation was very much like the late nineteenth century. She lived on a mid western farm and her family was very poor with no electricity, indoor plumbing or running water. They had to fill up a tin wash bucket with an outside pump for bathing and use an outhouse with an old Sears catalog for wiping. They also used baking soda for brushing teeth and deoderant. She said it was like Little House on the Prairie! Very much like the Victorian era.
My grandmother was born in the early 1900s. In Buffalo NY (good sz city). They had an outhouse in the behinning, and walked to a bathhouse to bathe. Later, a bathroom was added in a hall, so you had to walk through it to get to the main bedroom from the kitchen.
But still people don't use water to wash after using the toilet. Just wiping with a toilet paper don't help to get rid of smell. I use water since childhood and I can't even image to wipe that area . It creates a bad smell and even cause irritation when we don't wash it with water. I always wonder that even in this era, people still don't use water in toilets.
The "dish" method is still used nowadays; its called a bedpan and usually used for older or ill/injured people who can't porter themselves to the toilet.
Ha! People are commenting here that a weekly wash is gross... Try Queen Elizabeth 1 She claimed to be the Cleanest queen in the whole world, as she had a wash in her bath house once every six months! Yeah. Ill pass thanks.
So many YT costume channels have recently been trying historically revise life in the Middle Ages to the 20th century as if people were completely hygenic and smelled extremely pleasant 24/7 because they wore natural fabrics and sponge bathed. Nevermind that the water was often impure and people during the past were superstitious and thought there were bad spirits in the water and refused to remove all their clothing while taking a bath. It's genuinely wishful thinking that they smelled fresh on the daily.
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A lot of people, "I couldn't live." or "Glad I didn't live during that time." etc. Yes you could because you wouldn't know any different and it would've been the normal. With that said, I am super happy to live now and not then 🙂
I bet people 100 years from now on will also said the same thing towards us
All I have to say about this is across the globe. My ancestors were bathing in rivers. 😅 😒😂
Figure of speech. Knowing what they know now and all that.
Tell it like it is😮😮😮😮
@@jenniferclark6205 Nah, many people mean it :-) I know because these discussion concerning history and what it was like back then comes up fairly often among friends over the years. Surely, some are just stating it as a figure of speach.
Fun fact: women started carrying wedding bouquets to help them smell better on their wedding day
And still despite all that funky smell (lets not get into the slang of the word funk), they still managed to have children, lots and lots of children.
That's where the term, June bride came from. She was the freshest smelling in June with her spring bouquet or something like that.
Omfg
@@beth1627That's completely true. And that's why the bouquet was and still is carried below the waist! I could never have lived then.
Seriously??? That sounds like something from the agenda. Did you learn it in college, Women's Studies? Sounds like something they'd make up, like our history.
When I was growing up in England we lived in old Victorian row house, the toilets were in a row in the back area. We had to take baths in a portable tub that mom boiled the water for. We had to move due to the fact the houses were part of slums in Birmingham and were being torn down.
I have HUGE RESPECT for YOU, I only pray things are incredible for you today!!!!🙋🏻♂️Eric y🐈 Dulce
How old are you?
@@Finn_sisjon 67
@@AtherosdelHope your doing good
@@onblud I’m doing fine, I live in Virginia now. The coal dust and heavy metal particles caused the whole family to have lung issues. My parents moved to the USA to help my lungs improve. We moved near a beach and I didn’t get sick like I did in B’ham.
First of all, everybody just calm down. Let's go back way before the Victorian era. Say, a few hundred thousand years ago, when humans did not bathe at all, save for the occasional dip in a lake or stream or ocean, weather permitting. Somehow these people were able to still come in close contact with each other say, for intimacy. Did they smell horribly bad and just put up with it? No. They actually did not smell bad at all. A few years back, a researcher decided to do a research project on this very issue. She decided to stop bathing or showering to see what would happen. She had several colleagues smell her every few days. After a few days, she started to smell pretty bad, as expected. After a couple of weeks, she smelled even worse. Then something unexpected happened. After about six or seven weeks of not bathing at all, her colleagues noticed she did not smell bad at all. She didn't smell "flowery" or anything like that, but she just smelled "neutral". Why? Apparently, it has to do with bacteria. When we bathe or shower often, say every day, we kill all bacteria: the "bad" bacteria that causes odor, but also the "good" bacteria that kills the "bad" bacteria, just like in our gut with pro biotics. Well, after all that time the "good" or beneficial bacteria that would normally be there for us, took over and killed the bad, odor-causing bacteria, and she stopped smelling bad. THAT is how we humans were able to be with each other, even intimately, many eons ago. Today, we bathe or shower constantly, killing all bacteria, good and bad, and the only thing we can do to continue to not smell bad, is to keep showering and bathing. We humans are a peculiar species.
I’d love more info on this study. Sounds intriguing and informative.
@@susanmiller4159 I'll see if I can locate it and get back to you...
Do you still have the nate of the researcher? I’d love to read up on this
@@ik6non712 I shall look it up and get back to you.
genuinely i’ve smelled some ppl who just did not shower that much and i’m telling you some of them didn’t even have a smell much at all, at most a greasy oily sorta smell but it smelled like skin
Ppl be stinking up everywhere they go now and we have all kinds of products to help I can’t imagine the funk back then 😭
Now they smell too much like parfume. I like what people really smell like.
Makes me wonder how people with bowel issues coped. How did they wipe? And with what?
Again, but in English this time, please.
You have to keep in mind that this is an era where the lifestyle was drastically different than it is now.
Diet and exercise was way healthier back then, making sweat less of a problem than it is now : sweat now is full of bacteria and chemicals from what we eat, and what we don’t burn since we walk less.
No fast foods, no processed foods, running errands and participating in sports or working physically demanding jobs, etc…
@@chadchad3582 Don't forget all the chemicals that most are using to wash and moisturize themselves. Sun screen and make up, too.
A very interesting topic. I too have wondered how the ladies went to the bathroom with all those layers they wore... not to mention if it was that time of the month! thanks for shedding some new light on hygiene solutions over the centuries. I enjoy your videos and look forward to each new one that you post. Thanks for all the effort you put into sharing your insights and interest in history with the rest of us.
I watched a Dr Lucy Worsley program on these problems during the Versaille era and they used a special china device like a large gravy boat slipped up under the Court dress and no one knew what you were doing...lol
Ehhhhhhhh lol@@NothingToNoOneInParticular
@@NothingToNoOneInParticularvery inconvenient
@@NothingToNoOneInParticular So that "Versaille" didn't have bathrooms?
How did ladies poo 💩? The crotch hole was for pee. I assume they needed to pull their nickers down to do a number two
They walked so we could run.
I love this comment. It made me smile. 😊
You mean they ran so we could walk
@@yoshi_drinks_teaguess it could go both ways 😂
They crawled so we could run😭
Glad I wasn't born in the 1800s.
Me too
For sure, couldn't handle it
I’m with you there
I wish
Ya’ll might’ve been if reincarnation in something you believe in
Quite honestly I remember people smelling much worse in the 1960s. It was still uncommon to bathe more than once a week in certain households. Clothes were not washed as often, deodorant was not worn by many people, especially men, and perfume would be reserved for very special occasions.
Patchouli!😂 Yikes
Perfume should still be reserved
My friend's mother who was born in the thirties only bathed every few days or so. Her mother told her this was common for people from that time.
And we were all so much healthier. Our hygiene is killing us.
Not in California. I grew up in the 50s and 60s and we showered daily.
Meanwhile India was a completely different story. Due to not so cold climate, most people would go to river for bathing atleast 2 times a day, or to a lake or wells in the farms. And instead of soaps they would use turmeric and neem paste which have a lot of medicinal properties. And after that sandalwood paste was applied on forehead which has really good fragrance. And for going to number 2, either they would go to forests nearby or to a toilet built outside of the home and never inside, from where the dump was collected every morning by people who were paid to do so. But anyhow cleaning after finishing the job it was ritualistic to wash your backside with water and specially prepared clay with your left hand for 8 cycles and then wash left hand alone with the clay for 8 times and then wash your front side with the same hand for 3 times and then again clean the hand with the clay and water and then wash your legs and after that wash your both hands together with the clay for 8 times. And all of this was done before the sunrise otherwise people would think that you are lazy or sick.
How have modern Indians become less hygienic than their 1800s counterparts
so you are claiming there was toilets in india in victorian era? lol ironic.
@@stangrg1391 Not at all. I am claiming there were better sewage system in harrapan and mohenjo daro than average modern indian sewage system.
@@madhurchaturvedi5972 my bad i misunderstood, that is agreeable.
@vulturesdonda no u
I LOVED this! Please make more about olden days.
I'm glad you enjoyed! :)
@Historidame pls ols do
I’m a 50 year old man that bought a bidet toilet seat about 5 years ago. I will never again go without one in my home
never realised how much i was missing until i got a bidet😞
Knock it off with the fancy words, mate, say it like it is; it went tits up. You speak like you're from the 19th century......and ya sweat.
@@johngilmore697 girl???😭
@@johngilmore697what😂😂😂😂
@@Chloeritz battle of the 50 year old men
My grandma told me girls/women used rags during their periods. They washed one out and wore another while the first dried. Then they just switched back and forth.
Thank goodness for the invention of reusable menstrual cups and reusable menstrual disks, then, because those rags looked and probably were very uncomfortable and unreliable.
Yummy
Hence the term "On the rag"...
Oh God
@@GordiansKnotHere Or rag week.
Some of my most favorite programs on historical time periods was the "Farm" series of the BBC. Tales from the Green Valley, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm, Coal House, Wartime Farm. All with modern historians and archaeologists, made to live in a time period for 3 months to a year and filming the year of household chores, farming and holidays. All are available on RUclips in their complete playlist of the seasons.
I absolutely LOVE watching all of those!!! The Tudor Monastary Farm one is my favorite! 🥰
I'm partial to Wartime farm!@@MamaKittieKat
I found Time crashers and Electric Dreams too, which takes a family back through the 70's, 80' & 90's. Worth a watch!
@@NothingToNoOneInParticular Back in Time for Dinner is another good one if you can find it. Plus the Supersizers is hilarious with Sue Perkins and Giles Coren.
@@nosmallo I like Supersizers Go. lol Giles was such a funny pig. It seems he has about 400 extra muscles in his face and lips when chewing though...adored Sue in that.
When you spend your whole life around everybody else who stinks, you don't notice. Victorian era hygiene is an oxymoron.
Exactly.
Europeans still don't bathe. A friend was allowed a bath only once a week at his guesthouse in Switzerland and the owners thought he was bathing excessively then. Lederhosen, when properly 'broken in' can stand on their own and are never washed. The US Dept. of Health says to bathe once a week for hygeine. Soap manufacturers make money convincing people to kill all the helpful bacteria on their skin and to wash away the natural body oil that is essential for the body to manufacture vitamin D from sunlight. King Henry 8th wouldn't have a woman in his bed if she had had a bath in the last six months.
Plus the smell of smoke and dung in the cities certainty helped.
You supposed to wash only your feet, armpits and balls/pussy everyday anyway. Body needs natural moisturizer and bacteria.
"Frequent washing shortens life" goes old saying
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Anachronism..
Excellent. I look forward to future posts.
Thank you!
when i broke both of my arms a few years ago i realized hoff effective this old way of bathing realy was. it worked realy well to wash just with a sponge soap and a towel,i was never smelly and some skin problems like dry skin etc disapeared.
i think its an illusion that you only get clean when youre fully submerged in water.
I agree. I also learned at age 60 from a broken wrist, that I had been overdoing the hygiene all along. I now bathe once a week using only natural products. I would never shave my arm pits or legs again, either. I'm sure all the breast cancer is caused by doing so.
@@edie4321really depends on the type of climate you live in as well. You wouldn’t be able to go a week at a time without bathing in a hot humid climate. You’d end up with all sorts of skin issues.
@@NotLikeUs17, yes, I do live in a dry and comfortable climate. I seriously had forgotten how humidity can affect you. The hotter months, you want to live in a tub. I do feel you. Thanks.
We are so blessed & spoiled now
My mother told me that when she was a child, the home she lived in shared a cold water pump in the courtyard of a row of terrace houses. The tin bath they all shared was hung up on a nail outside in the back yard. When I was a child, myself and 2 siblings shared the water of a hot bath on a Sunday evening. Thankfully, the bath was indoors. In the week, my mother would stand us in a tub of water in front of the fire and sponge wash us morning and evening. Water was precious and not to be wasted.
You didn’t mention the saying of ‘don’t throw the baby out with the bath water’ originating from the same time period as when the youngest family member would take their bath last! I remember my grandmother living in a house without a bathroom. She had a tin bath and an outdoor toilet. This was fairly normal for the area at the time. Her kitchen also was primitive, she washed her clothes in a dolly tub and scrubbed them on a wash board before putting them through a hand operated mangle to get the excess water out. They were then hung up on a washing line to dry. This was in the 1960’s.
That’s one reason infant mortality was so high.
I was gonna say 1940's
My grandmother would use this term a lot.
Because they went out with the bath water ??
@@carolewynn9407 I think she's meaning that the baby bathed last. Also, that the water would have been full of germs which wouldn't be good for the baby.
When I was child we washed off every day and took a bath in a tin tub on SATURDAY night. Ibever thought anything about it Im glad I have a bathroom now
And electricity, running hot and cold water, air conditioning, indoor toilets, TV, Radio, Cars, Trains, Planes, refrigerators, freezers, automatic dishwashers, clothes washers and driers...........I'm sure the list could go on and on.
We had the galvanized wash tub as well.we also had a kerosene stove to heat the water on for the tub.spring n summer n early fall we went swimming 🏊. Thank God we got indoor plumbing when I was 5.I hated the spiders in the outhouse n winter time was soo cold🥶
Those elegant Victorian women just had their kitty katz out breathing the entire time under those hoops!
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Most women in Europe still do this, I was born in Napoli, Italy and moved to America in the 1970s. I still don't wear underwear unless necessary, keeps a woman cleaner.
@@DaisyChain3339. Please read that last sentence of yours a few more times to yourself out loud🤦🏻♀️
@@DaisyChain3339. As a European woman, most of us still wear underwear. There are plenty of different types to fit different types of clothing. Cleanliness and health is more about the fabric type than wearing them in general. There is a group of people who does it, many because they get a kick out of it, but it is very far from the majority. :)
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Some very interesting illustrations.
Gosh!!! India is way ahead of its time ... bathing is essential and a fix practice since ages...
Everyone walked around with extremely stanking cooters 😂
Imagine brothels.
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But when everyone did it, it was normal. "Smells bad" is relative. Don't forget that until the 20th century, the majority of people worked on farms, so were smelling manure daily.
actually, women have always spot bathed and that split underwear def cut down on trapped bacteria and infection. air is a good thing.
@@reneelibby4885BS they stunk stop trying to down play it geez !
@@BrycePorter-m7b everyone stunk not just women.
Growing up in Appalachia in the early 1960’s, we used a large galvanized washtub in the kitchen, drew up the water from the well, heated the water on our coal stove, poured it into the tub and shared the water between the 3 kids on certain days, and mom & dad shared on other days (after us kids were in bed) 😊
Those were good times, but I admit today is better 😂
In Africa in the rural areas I still remember the smoky scent of bathwater boiled in a tin pail outdoors. Then bucket bath with soap outdoors, galvanized tub outdoors for kids.
@reallyrecap quack
Very interesting :=) still it always surprises me no matter how many times I hear it just how LONG it took for germ theory and basic hygiene to become commonplace :=)
Thank you!
@@Historidame You're very welcome :=). Keep it up :=)
A LOT of USA southerners still couldnt afford bathtubs and indoor plumbing even as far as to the 1960s. Amazing how people survived, none the less.
What about the issue of menstruation? They used to use strips of cotton affixed to a special belt… I’m 70 old and through my teenage years, we used that kind of belt to hold our pads in place. My mom even remembered using those cotton strips which were washed and reused …This is where the crude expression “on the rag” originated.
it was also pre-pantyhose days in my teens- when we used stockings with garter belts…
DAMN, my default is kickass but this is making me feel ancient!
In the house where i was born, Netherlands, the 1905 flush reservoir is still hanging and in use. And in the former GDR, where some family from us lived/lives, they even until about 1992 the wooden plank with a hole toilets, like you in this video. On the first floor ( not downstairs) and so it was really deep. My mother told me that when she visited her GDR famiily in 1970, she kept my brothers hand, when he was small, so that he would not fall down in it.
My grandmother who came of age in the late 1900s told me that women sewed rags together to use during their periods. They washed one out and wore the other as it dried!
The late 1900s is the 90s.
@@papabird4425 they more than likely meant 1906-1909
@@papabird4425the 19th century meant 1800-1899 so they meant the 1890s
Of course, there were many, many Victorian occupiers in South Asia and most local people were far, far cleaner than the British Colonials. Daily, full body bathing in the form of religious ablutions, were the norm for many (Hindus, Sikhs, most Buddhists sangha), whilst bathing hands, mouth, nose, face, hair and ears, than ankles and feet 5x a day for Muslims and a ritual (usually) steam bath was common every Thursday night (for Friday prayers). Washing hands and face prior to meals, and hands again afterwards, was also essential as cutlery was, and still is, optional in many South Asian cultures.
Yes, the Hindus took a bath in that filthy, rotting dead bodies river”Ganges”. Need to quitrunning ourselves down because the rest of the jealous world speeds their B S.
Ok, you took more baths when you were colonized. Hows that helping India in 2024?
I was looking for this comment! Thank you
Yet all these people still can't improve their countries enough to not abandon them to come to western created countries
@cancandoit Exactly. I'm Ghanian and not bathing has NEVER been a normal thing for us. Even going back to the ancient AKAN people post colonialism, we. Were. Washing.
My mum remembers still using a chamber pot in the 1960s, and having the first light in the house, electric that is. But they had one key rule with the chamber pot only at night and only got a wee. Anything else it’s the out house.
The only thing worse than a strong odor of BO is the smell of BO mixed with a cologne or perfume.
I’m 62 , live in Chicago 32 years . Му life in SSSR was the same . Before i immigrated, I changed 3 places - in Moldova. . In my twenties , having 2 children 3 and 4 , did everything for my kids and me to have place with water and bathroom - hot water everyday and food the best я!!!! I’m proud my self to take care us . In Moldova in 90th was the same !!! We immigrated in 1995 and Happy ! America the best in our life’s . God Bless
I also lived in 90 s in Moldova and it was very nice for me and my family.
They had wash basins. They spot cleaned.
Oh yes, ppl STILL think them back then were primitive ignorant apes, when NO! They were NOT! Always, they been human too as we.
Stinking today will also get you categorized as a member of the lower class.
All you need is salt to stave off odor. Perfect for under armpits.
Makes you wonder if they realized this back then. I would the herbal tinctures would have helped with smell. Idk jf it was common place
You don't need deoderant to smell nice, you need soap and water - and we've discovered those thousands of years ago.
this video was so interesting, i love your channel!
Thank you!
3:23 I was not prepared for that guy 0_o
I love this video❤ so informative ❤
Thank you!
People are COMPLETELY different back then, the chemicals in our products cause hormonal imbalances and the toxins and impurities around us doesn’t help either! So yea they might’ve gotten slightly musty but I doubt it’s the same kinda must from nowadays 😂
You do realize that women during this era wore cosmetics that contained lead, arsenic and radium? Lol romantizing the past by saying "products back then didn't have the harmful chemicals they do now!!!" while it's a well-known fact that products back then were extremely harmful is interesting
But still people don't use water to wash after using the toilet. Just wiping with a toilet paper don't help to get rid of smell. I use water since childhood and I can't even image to wipe that area . It creates a bad smell and even cause irritation when we don't wash it with water. I always wonder that even in this era, people still don't use water in toilets.
Grandma house had a claw tub, high ceilings throughout l think the structure was build in the 1890's or early 1900s. Wonderful place for a kid.
My father talked about when deodorant was first widely available and used, something I had never considered. When I asked what people did, he said everyone smelled and it was just excepted.
Interesting!
Deodorant is one thing, but Anti-Perspirant is far better.
When I was in my teens in the 60s, my mother gave me deodorant for my armpits. Great!
But I quickly realized that it simply created a perfumed sweaty smell, which fooled no one.
I guess the Victorians had the same problem.
It’s extremely vindicating, knowing I’m not the only one that thinks about these things lol great video
Thank you!
I was in utter shock throughout this whole video 😭. Thank you for new infos
I'm glad you liked it :)
It's a pity you didn't mention Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the hero engineer who designed the London sewage system after the great stink. His name should be better known. The Great exhibition of 1851 popularised the flushing toilet, which let to a huge increase in the amount of water used, which overloaded the old system. It is ironic that a hygiene product caused such a horrible situation.
There are alot of Americans who dont shower regularly. Thanks to body sprays, perfumes, dry shampoo you probably dont notice.
I washed my hair for most of my life everyday. My hair didnt grow fast, had a bad texture. For the past 15 years I was my hair once a week maybe twice once in awhile. My hair is now like silk 3/4 of the way down my back. By letting the natural oils stay in it gave me a beautiful head of hair.
Washing hair daily is definetely not healthy - I was mine twice a week. :) But you can still shower and use soap, without getting your hair wet.
But still people don't use water to wash after using the toilet. Just wiping with a toilet paper don't help to get rid of smell. I use water since childhood and I can't even image to wipe that area . It creates a bad smell and even cause irritation when we don't wash it with water. I always wonder that even in this era, people still don't use water in toilets.
As a child of the 70's and the youngest of four, i took many baths in water that was used before. Sometimes we took them together. Not my fondest memories.
There was a show on TV a number of years back titled "Victorian House", in which the actors lived like Victorians. The men didn't have it too bad, but the women, when they had their periods, had a particularly nasty time. What they used to absorb the blood, then how they had to clean up, was very unpleasant. However, that is the way it was, there were no alternatives, and they considered it all a part of life.
What a great video!
Thank you!
I suggest reading “At Home: A Short History of Private Life” by Bill Bryson, its such an enjoyable book about different fun facts from the victorian era (main focus) and english life.
in another 200 years, people will look back at us and think, How could they live that way?
My gran, born 1903 said ‘ cleanliness is next to godliness’.
Loved. Your video. Thanks. I definitely will subscribe
I remember as a kid in the late 1970's sharing bathwater. It was a common practice here (Ireland).
My maternal grandfather was born in 1894. He used to regale me with gross accounts of the poor hygiene when he was a child.
Wouldn't one just heat the water with the gas then shut it off? I wonder how much we take for fact is actually only a few cases blown up. I would hope people could handle testing the water temperature and getting out if too warm. I have several Victorian home help books and booklets and several suggested wiping the armpits with amonia or vinegar to prevent odor.
The way you explained watching a movie at the beginning is legit how I watch movies sometimes. I hyperfocus on a detail, like how on earth did they travel so fast or why do they still look that good after travelling for a long time. And that can ruin a movie for me.
Scarlett O'Hara said her mother always smelled of verbena sachet. Bein that they lived in the Deep South and they also wore hoop skirts and woolens and silks, people often just used lots of perfume.You need to see one of my favorite films "Perfume" about Paris in the 1700's.
It's June 20, 2024 and I was just thinking about the suspense thriller movie PERFUME this evening! Ive watched that movie about 5x over an extended period of time.
It FINALLY occured to me the reason that young man couldn't 'distill' the scent of his last victum was because the reason her scent was driving him wild w desire is because he had detected *HER* scent while she was ovulating. Here's how I came to my *hypothesis* . . .
When I was in my late 20's I was a serious body builder. I was good friends w the gym owner. One day he said to me casually "I can always tell when it's close to your time of the month". I FROZE on the inside because a childhood bicycling accident had left me w a broken nose and no sense of smell. So I ventured to ask " Really? Do I stink? I do take a tub bath everyday and apply deoderant".
"No, you don't stink. You just smell differant before your cycle. It's not at all unpleasant. But it is your scent".
I didn't do The Pill so what he was actually smelling was my natural scent of pheromones signaling I was ripe for getting pregnant.
Do you think my *hypothesis* works to explain that last victim in PERFUME?
Excellent, looking forward to future posts.
Thank you!
“The good old days “ 🤣
Great Video! I won’t complain anymore when there are no paper towels in the public restroom 😂
But still people don't use water to wash after using the toilet. Just wiping with a toilet paper don't help to get rid of smell. I use water since childhood and I can't even image to wipe that area . It creates a bad smell and even cause irritation when we don't wash it with water. I always wonder that even in this era, people still don't use water in toilets.
The poor ordinary working classes in English towns would often have a tin plated iron bath hanging up on a long nail on a back wall of their houses this would be taken down at least once a week and taken into the kitchens water would be heated on the stove or fire then mixed with coldwater and usually the kids would go in first then they would be put to bed then mum then it would be dads turn. This was very normal my grandfather and my father’s old aunts were victorians. Grandads house still had the old tin bath and as a very young child afterwards falling into mud I was made to use it. Much to my embarrassment. Victorian working people did not particularly smell of sweat they smelled of pipe smoke and beer and the the old ladies smelled of lavender and Lilly of the valley
If you want to smell an example of the pre Victorian era personal hygiene, go to India.
Hello, stop stereotyping India . Indians where and are more hygienic than West. In India people bathe 3 times a day , not like you people . The recent state of India is because of colonial loot. You bloody westners.
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Or go to any American city with a high white population. The funk is still there; bath and body works isn't fooling anyone. Not much has changed.
Great video!
Thank you!
I bet you the smell during sex was extremely horrible back then 🤮
In part, probably yes. However, everything else also had a stronger smell, so the body odour may not have been so bad in comparison. Modern people have also become a bit more 'delicate' in their sense of smell, because modern air pollution don't smell in the same way, and we are raised with a daily shower and highly effective soap. The average modern human would not last 5 minutes in the past, because they have been raised in a gilded cage, and stick their nose up for anything less than perfect.
@@HereIAm247 not everybody stink back in those days. The Moorish people who went to Europe taught them how to properly bathe themselves. Did you know Chanel 13 was a perfume used to mask the smell there? Even in Egypt they were taught how to properly bathe during the pyramid era. So yes people from today could make it back then (depending on what area you dropped them in)
@@Slimdulla87 Well, the video is about victorian era England, so that was the time you were dropped in.
@@HereIAm247 but the point I'm making is the Victorian era started in 1837. There were eras before 1837 who valued cleaning their bodies. So why did that trait get pushed to the sideline?
@@Slimdulla87 You were the one who made the original comment. (about people smelling bad) You tell me? 😅
I lived without running water for 3 years and stayed perfectly clean by using a basin and sponge. We overdo washing these days.
Speaking of wedding days, there was a tradition in which weddings were celebrated at the beginning of the summer. The reason was simple: most people couldn’t take a shower throughout the year due to the lack of water or, because the weather was severe or too far away. In that case, the only way to celebrate weddings is when they could take a shower, which was usually in the summertime.
Here I sit in the bathroom, looking at the wash basin in the corner that was my great grandmas. Her chamber pot is in the garage. An antique closet chair is sitting on the front porch.
I have personally used a real bonified outhouse in the 90s and 2000s because my familys river cabin did not have plumbing. I thought it made me super cool at a kid. I kinda still do. But man am I greatful for this fancy ass 1980s flush toilet
Social class had a lot.to do with hygiene. Fun fact: as late as 1960, the very poor who loved in tenements in London's East End did not have bathrooms. There would be an outhouse behind the building, or, if lucky, a toilet for common use at the end of each hall. Water came from a standpipe in the courtyard and was carried up four or five flights in buckets. Private bathrooms werent common for poor folks until slum clearance in the mid 1960s.
I think bout this stuff too😂
A lot of thoughts that I have wondered thank you for making this video.
😅😅😅😅 Hip Bath is crazy😂😂😂😂
Better then no bath at all
My grandparents were Victorians and grew up in poverty but they were always immaculate and clean.....my Grandma used to smell of green "Fairy" soap.....they used it to wash everything.
Present day washing "3 times a day" is an obsession just like constant playing with mobile phones in public-!!!!!
Huh you funky
@@asia_nzeako I think you just proved his point. Do you take a shower 3 times every day?
@@ArathiDagonis 2-3 yes
@@asia_nzeako Funny that you call other people "funky" if you have to take 2-3 showers every single day to stay clean. That African heat must be something. Must make you musky as hell. How disgusting. :D
@@asia_nzeako Funny that you call other people "funky" considering that you have to shower 2-3 times a day just to stay clean. Literally nobody does that, not even in first world countries. That African heat must be something.
“The great stink” I lost it 😂
This confirms my theory that Jack the Ripper was temporarily insanely offended 😮
Awesome information video. 👍🏼🫠👍🏼
Can you make one about mid evil hygiene 🙏
I can certainly add it to my video idea list!
Perfumes were to cover body odor. Today we wash but people still use perfumes for enjoyment. The BAD NEWS is unless you are using aromatherapy, you are using toxic chemicals on your skin.
I put the parfume on me clothes not me skin.
@@Louie-pq3kvWell, the French designer Coco Chanel ( no 5...) said a woman should apply perfume on every place she'd like to be kissed...❤🎉❤🎉🎉
@@annyjoseph6162thats marketing
In Europe they still believe bathing more than once a week is considered unhealthy. Dated several ladies when i was stationed in europe that smelled ripe in summer time.
@@okpo2596 my ass. In germany many still only bath once a week. My brother in law is one. His girlfriend from romania is another.
@@azthundercloud that's typically disgusting.
Really? Danish woman here, and everyone I know shower every morning. If you were to skip a day, it would be heavily frowned upon. If you smell bad, it will definitely be noted.
@@HereIAm247 my aunt& uncle who live in frankfurt bath once a week. my wifes mother in germany the same. brother in law who is german baths once a week. smell ripe but it is what is is.
I wish you could have talked about periods. I want to know more about how women dealt with it in the past.
🎉❤ love ur videos
Thank you!
The split undergarments for women just raised so many more questions for me.
We're way too ungrateful is all I can say.
My mom was born in the twenties and grew up in the Depression era. She said her living situation was very much like the late nineteenth century. She lived on a mid western farm and her family was very poor with no electricity, indoor plumbing or running water. They had to fill up a tin wash bucket with an outside pump for bathing and use an outhouse with an old Sears catalog for wiping. They also used baking soda for brushing teeth and deoderant. She said it was like Little House on the Prairie! Very much like the Victorian era.
British learn great deal of person hygiene from India. Look into it.
Agreed
I'm 66 and I remember having to use my grandparents outhouse and at night we would use the chamber pot. History isn't that far in the past. 😊
In the south we call that a bird bath 😭😔
My grandmother was born in the early 1900s. In Buffalo NY (good sz city). They had an outhouse in the behinning, and walked to a bathhouse to bathe. Later, a bathroom was added in a hall, so you had to walk through it to get to the main bedroom from the kitchen.
But still people don't use water to wash after using the toilet. Just wiping with a toilet paper don't help to get rid of smell. I use water since childhood and I can't even image to wipe that area . It creates a bad smell and even cause irritation when we don't wash it with water. I always wonder that even in this era, people still don't use water in toilets.
The English didn’t start brushing their teeth till the late 90’s
Great job!
Thank you :)
how did youtube know this is exactly what i needed to see rn
The "dish" method is still used nowadays; its called a bedpan and usually used for older or ill/injured people who can't porter themselves to the toilet.
Ha! People are commenting here that a weekly wash is gross...
Try Queen Elizabeth 1
She claimed to be the Cleanest queen in the whole world, as she had a wash in her bath house once every six months!
Yeah. Ill pass thanks.
So many YT costume channels have recently been trying historically revise life in the Middle Ages to the 20th century as if people were completely hygenic and smelled extremely pleasant 24/7 because they wore natural fabrics and sponge bathed. Nevermind that the water was often impure and people during the past were superstitious and thought there were bad spirits in the water and refused to remove all their clothing while taking a bath. It's genuinely wishful thinking that they smelled fresh on the daily.
Nope we have evidence Elizqbeth took regular baths and washed daily, the myth she didn't bath comes from a 1920 book
an era so romanticized and it was just smelling like shit all the time 😭
Here is Utah, we don't even have flush toilets in 2024.
Really??? What do you have instead?
I wouldn’t be surprised if also some women rubbed scented flowers petals under their arms as a way of making them smell better too.