• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    And they used to wash by scraping themselves and covering their body in olive oil. I remember reading about Romans laughing at “barbarian” foreigners from Gaul who would create bars out of animal fat, ashes and flowers to wash themselves with, like a bunch of heathens.