Muslims reintroduced bathing regularly to Europe during the Islamic Golden Age and centuries later Europeans are still melting down about it.
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The Vikings tried really hard to get the British to take a bath.
I think the Romans also attempted this with the British, from what I've read.
And neither Romans nor Vikings are around anymore. Coincidence? I think not!
Well, I mean, the modern English are sort of descended from Vikings (Anglo-Saxons). Scots and Irish are still mostly Celtic though (I think) and those places are way cooler, so not sure this argument holds
Not an expert but from the name, I would imagine they descend from the Angles (Engles?) and the Saxes not from the Vikings.
Yeah, for some reason I was thinking Angles and Saxons were considered Vikings but I was totally wrong on that. You are correct.
Northeast England and the east coast of Scotland have a fair amount of viking ancestry about from all the raiding, so it's not completely baseless.
Descended from is not the same as being. An Italian American is not an Italian is not a Roman even if you can trace descent.
Do you have a source for this? Cuz I keep encountering historians who say "The idea that people in [insert time period] didn't bath is a myth". I kinda just assume now pretty much in human cultures bathed at least semi-regularly, people don't like smelling like shit. Sure in ye-olden times they probably didn't do it as frequently as we do today because clean water a bit more labor intensive to acquirer but I think it's weird to assume even mayo-kkkrackkers spend 100s of years just walking around with fungus growing in the crotches.
"Big Soap" is my Metal Gear Solid codename
Solid soap and liquid soap two brothers who couldn't be more different.
I just like smelling good
he's actually right. same shit with using shampoo every day
Maybe, but you just know Twitter OP smells like spoiled milk constantly and he uses this as a justification.
Yeah you'll dry out your hair if you shampoo that much. Then you'll have to condition it often to keep it good. Same deal with thorough soaping -> using lots of lotion.
I wonder how many people are actually scrubbing themselves raw everyday.
It's an individual thing, some people "stink" easily. from google:
research points to the ABCC11 gene as directly responsible for underarm odor. Oddly enough, this gene also determines whether people produce wet or dry earwax. Interestingly, those who tend to produce dry earwax also lack the necessary chemical needed to feed the bacteria that cause underarm odor.
East Asians have dry earwax.
It's always fascinating to some someone conspiracy posting and you can see where they started from actual, real life, scientific data but then just got sort of carried away or actively chose to do this type of shit
As a sensitive skinned 
I had to cut down on the frequency of showers to keep my Yakubian hide from disintegrating.
delicate yakubian dermii need dipped in moisturiser every 24 hours, this was yakub's plan to direct their actions toward the destruction of civilisation. unfortunately designing them evil made them simply eschew bathing instead, so they got really out of control
One of the funniest parts of shogun is all the japanese people being disgusted by the brit not bathing regularly.
Also good to see how quickly he realises that being clean is great.
In the book the character spends a lot of time thinking about how fucking filthy everything in Europe actually is. Including his wife...
tbh not entirely wrong wrt specifically to soap
You should hit your whole body with cleanser but actual soap is drying af
What’s the difference?
If you only use soap is pretty ineffective, you need to use water too.
Soap has a pH higher than your skin and it kinda caustically dissolves you while also stripping it of sebum i.e. "skin oil." Cleansers are formulated to not do that.
Yeah I'm also in the don't use soap all the time camp. I haven't used shampoo outside of a handful of times in like ten years. Your body does have a pretty complex system of oils that keep your skin and hair healthy and it's not great to strip that off every day. Obviously if you're getting dirty working or exerting yourself you wanna get clean, but normal day-to-day, you don't gotta do all that. One thing that I think people don't realize is that it takes a little bit for your shit to get back to normal after denuding yourself of your natural oils every day. I really noticed it with my hair being really greasy for a couple weeks when I stopped shampooing. But it does equalize after a little bit and then you're in pretty good shape to just use detergents at a lower rate.
What are hot spots?
Probably referring to areas like the underarm and groin that get particularly sweaty.
Not the ass, though, it's gay to wash your ass.
Ah okay that makes sense, thank you. Not sure why it didn't click
Considering most of the responses here are from stinkies too, I'll urge you all to bath everyday. Like with food, you have to look for good soaps/shampoos with an intelligible ingredient list. For example I use Beekman goat milk soap. No fragrances, no other bs than goat's milk. Feels like lotion. I only exfoliate once, twice a week with a loufa. Cheap shit dries your skin/hair.
I do not think "intelligible ingredient list" is a good metric, just because a company chooses to put a wholesome* natural* kind of word on there instead of a scientific one has no bearing on if the ingredient is good or not.
*marketing terms with no agreed upon, let alone enforceable, definition
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Big Soap obviously exists though? Some of the biggest companies in the world these days are soap companies. Proctor and Gamble, Unilever, and Colgate-Palmolive are all enormous companies and one of their most important marketing tactics is telling people that they are stinky, smelly and no one will ever love them
none of these companies main interests are soap anymore, lol
If you look at their revenue breakdown about half of it is different kinds of soap, especially if you include other soap types like dish and laundry detergent, shampoo, and toothpaste. Then about another quarter is vanity like makeup and deodorant. Then the last quarter is ultra processed foods. It is accurate to call them Big Soap.
we should gas everyone who uses internet
If i wanted to smell good constantly i would have to shower twice a day. If i showered as little as this guy says i should, i would peel wallpaper qnd wilt flowers as soon as i walked in the room