In the course of doing some image research I stumbled across this 1542 German how-to book on Athletic Arts, called Paulus Hector Mair’s De Arte Athletica.
I tried to translate some of the German descriptions with Google Translate but mostly… Read More
Ancient Egyptians "cleaned" their bodies with scented oils. Greeks and Romans scraped down with a strigil. The Gauls used a paste made of animal fat and potash. Soap of any kind seems not to have reappeared in the western world until the tenth century.