Italian beliefs about hygiene. I am doing a paper on the italian culture. I dont know where to look 4 answers

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Italian beliefs about hygiene. I am doing a paper on the italian culture. I dont know where to look 4 answers

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I don't know any websites.  I can give you some personal experience though, if you like.  I'm American but have been living in Italy for the last 9+ years.  Okay, Italians are very big on hygiene.  Sure you will find some who are very dirty, but they are the minority.  If I'm not mistaken, Italians are the Europeans who spend more time and money on hygiene and personal appearance. In Italian bathrooms you will find a shower or bathtub, toilet and a bidet.  If you don't know what a bidet is, it looks like a sink but it's low on the ground.  Italians use it to wash their feet and intimate parts.  Some Italians wash their intimate parts every time they go to the bathroom, others 1-2 times a day.  For most Italians, the thought of ONLY wiping with toilet paper is pretty disgusting.  They say, it's not clean enough.  Not only Italian women spend millions a year on perfumes, hairdressers, shampoos, cosmetics, etc. but so do Italian men.  I know lots of Italian guys that will spend a lot of money on hair dresser, cologne, shampoo, face cream, waxing, gym, designer clothes, etc.  Image and good hygiene are very important to most Italians.  I work in a hotel and a few months ago we had a Croatian client.  She told me Italian men are not anything like Croatian men because they take too good care of themselves (almost better than women in most other countries).  I think the majority of Italians shower every day...the ones who work out at the gym take 2 or more showers.  Italian women (and even a lot of Italian men) shave (almost everything!). I've never seen an Italian woman with hairy armpits.  I'm only telling you this because I've noticed there are a lot of stereotypes about Italian women having hairy armpits.  It's false!  

Okay, I hope this helped.