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A Place to Dine...

Cultural bathing experience

Ancient Egyptian Bathing Rituals...

For soap Egyptians used swabu (means to clean), a paste containing ash or clay, which was often scented, and could be worked into a lather. This soap was talked about in "The Ebers Medical Papyrus", dating from about 1500 BCE, describes mixing animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts. The soap-like material was used for treating skin diseases, as well as for washing

Walking barefoot the feet got dusty, which, as the floors of their houses were no different from the ground outside. The richer, or upper class Egyptians had wooden or clay footbaths for washing their feet, usually there were two basins as only one foot could fit in each basin
At Tebtunis public bathhouses have been excavated, the oldest dating to the third century BCE. They had showers, stone basins and a stove to heat the bath water.^[3]
While a few bathrooms and tubs have been discovered most Egyptians seemed fine with cleansing through aspersion or by a dip in a canal or the river. They had wash basins and probably filled them with a natron and salt solution from jugs with spouts and used sand as a scouring agent. They washed after rising and both before and after the main meals, but one may assume that their ablutions were mostly perfunctory. As mouth wash they used another solution called bed (bd: natron).
If washing did not help to get rid of body odor sometime the advice of a physician was sought after who had a number of recipes at his disposal:

http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/timelines/topics/cosmetics.htm

Urban Pathways

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