There were no soaps and deos during Cleopatra time. wasn't she having BO and bad breath?

Question

There were no soaps and deos during Cleopatra time. wasn't she having BO and bad breath?

Answer 1

fruits and berries

Answer 2

How in the world would having no soap or deos give anybody bad breath?

Answer 3

colour and smell is part of history .Not on the artificial modern items .

Answer 4

Everyone is was in the same boat so it didn't matter.

Answer 5

theyy add perfumess tht they madeeee sooo hopefully it overcame the smell but most ppl smelled worse

Answer 6

Sandal oil and rose essence is used those days. and the climate was not so hot like this sweat.

Answer 7

The famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra used opiates and perfumes to seduce her many lovers and she’s generally credited with inventing pomades from bear grease. Egyptians were very concerned with personal appearances and hygiene. Many copper mirrors, combs, tweezers, and perfumes have been found in their tombs. Egyptians shaved facial and body hair with copper razors. Egyptians were famous for their perfumes. Many of the perfumes were exported throughout the Mediterranean region. Ointments were used to protect the Egyptians from the hot sun.

The ancient Egyptian did use toothpaste. The world's oldest-known formula for toothpaste, used more than 1,500 years before Colgate was discovered written in Greek (the official language of Egypt for about 1,000 years until the last temples closed in the sixth century AD). The ingredients needed for the perfect smile are one drachma of rock salt - a measure equal to one hundredth of an ounce - two drachmas of mint, one drachma of dried iris flower and 20 grains of pepper, all of them crushed and mixed together.

For soap Egyptians used swabu, a paste containing ash or clay, which was often scented, and could be worked into a lather. The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 BC) indicates that ancient Egyptians bathed regularly and combined animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to create a soap-like substance.

Answer 8

Historians have researched this topic extensively. Cleopatra , it is said, used to bathe in donkey's milk. As for bad breath , she is supposed to have used cardamoms. In fact she was so fond cardamoms that she would have its fragrance (from freshly crushed ones) spread all over the palace whenever a distinguished guest  was expected (i.e., Caesar and/or Marc Antony).

Answer 9

Don't forget the Henna, hair colouring before Clairol.

Answer 10

we think that we invented everything during our generation. They may have had an even better method of controlling these things then we do today. Who knows? They constructed the pyramids, and even today there is no machine on earth that could build one from start to finish even now

Answer 11

there were soaps and deoderants in Cleopatra's time.  In Egypt the upper classes bathed in water with natron (native carbonate of soda) dissolved in it.  Poorer people who could not afford natron used soap made of ash and animal fat.  Deoderants were often used.  They were made from turpentine, incense and a powder, the exact nature of which is unknown, and they were often scented.  Teeth were cleaned with rags and sticks.  They sweetened their breath by putting in their mouths pellets of aromatic spices mixed with honey, as for instance:

'Dry oliban, pine seeds, terebinth resin, fragrant reed, cinnamon rind, melon, Phoenician reed. Grind finely, mix into a solid mass and put on the fire.  Add honey to it.  Heat, knead, make into pellets.  They will make fumigation with thee pastilles.  They will also put them into their mouths to make their breath pleasant.'

Answer 12

They had perfumes, scented oils, and could chew on herbs for breath.

Answer 13

Nope. Haven't you heard of herbal therapies. She used to pamper herself with scented oils in her  baths etc.