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TIL Medieval people were more hygienic than popular belief, they bathed regularly with soap!

going-medieval.com I assure you, medieval people bathed.

I can’t believe I have to write this down right now, but my dear friends, medieval people bathed regularly. Yes. I assure you. I am very serious. It is true. In fact, medieval people loved a bath a…

I assure you, medieval people bathed.

Also, many peasants didn't even use bath houses they bathed in their home with more effort by heating up basins of water.

But excessive bathing wasn't really talking about bathing but going to public bath houses to meet and to ... other people.

If you read the article/post, it goes on to say that in later centuries, some medical professionals misinformed the public telling them not to bathe with warm water because the 'pores would open and let too much bacteria etc in.' I am thankful they eventually reconsidered.

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