1. Today we highly value personal hygiene, but up to the beginning of the 18th century, a person could never in his entire life immerse yourself in water. Many people thought swimming was an unhealthy thing, but “soaking” your body in water, especially hot, allows various diseases and infections to penetrate into the body. Even if a person still decided to take a bath, then he did it in clothes! This tradition has been preserved until the end of the 19th. century. 
Photo from open sources 2. Until the 1880s, people and not thought about creating a deodorant: despite the fact that most of they smelled very badly most of the time, no discomfort they did not experience this. The rich tried to disguise the evil the smell of a large number of perfumes, which led to even more deplorable results. It is worth noting that back in the 9th century, scholar Ziryab proposed the idea of creating a deodorant for armpits, but she did not take root. Until 1888, nothing like this existed. And this year the mass production of the first deodorants that have had phenomenal success in the west. These deodorants are available today, they are branded “Mother”.
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3. Women did not care for hair on their bodies. In western body hair removal was not common practice right up to 1920s. Of course, and now there are countries in which women do not do nothing with their body hair, but for most it has become a natural part of personal hygiene.
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4. At that time, houses smelled foul of natural secretions of the human body. There was no running water, and most people relieved in a pot that could be left until someone hesitated to throw its contents into nearest window. Later pots were preserved in some houses when open toilets have already been created. Even in the Victorian era, pots were used as an emergency toilet at night time.
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5. Toilet paper came into use at the end of the 18th century, and before since then people have used improvised means. The rich could imagine let the luxury wipe off with flaps of fabric. The poor used with old rags, leaves, moss and hands. Even the ancient Romans they lived better: they used a stick-wound for these purposes fabric, and then immersed it in a bucket of water.
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6. Infection with bed bugs and insects took in the 18th century menacing sizes. They were considered the norm. These insects certainly were the cause of the proliferation of numerous diseases. They remained a constant problem until modern times. In the Victorian era, women were recommended wipe the bottom of the beds with kerosene to kill unwanted guests.
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7. Some women used during critical days a piece of fabric, and more than once the same; moreover, these the flaps were dried in a prominent place at the same time as other things, absolutely no shy. Therefore it was better not to watch through the fence to the neighbors. However, there were also women who did not used nothing, and allowed gravity to “do their a business”.
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8. In big cities, the streets smelled like a mixture of manure, human excrement and rotting plants. The next time you see in the film, as an 18th-century man gallantly throws his cloak to the ground, to let his lady pass, remember: it is likely that he is covering not a puddle at all.
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9. Dental hygiene was the use of a toothpick and wiping the gums with a cloth. In women, as a rule, teeth were worse compared with men due to the loss of vitamins during pregnancy time. For wealthy people, an Italian company Marvis started making toothpaste in the early 1700s (they to this day continue to release it). But frankly, people were more perplexed by the purchase of meat than the Italian dental paste.
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10. Absolutely everyone at that time was infected with lice. And they have chosen an amazing cure for this: mercury! In the 18th century near Europe had an affair with mercury. They ate it, rubbed it into the skin, became crazy and dying. As for the “positive” sides – first she killed the lice.
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