I don’t think y’all know just how unhygienic the past was, so imma teach y’all just how unhygienic the past was.
Women used to trap (disease-ridden) mice at night, and then use their skin and fur to add “body” to their eyebrows.
Men used literal chicken shit and potassium as hair growth serums
People used urine as a cleaning agent because of its ammonia content.

Everything from clothes to your own face was washed with piss.

Soap 100% existed by the way.

Europeans simply rather wash in piss.
Since they wore 5-6 layers of clothing everyday, this how women went to the bathroom.

(Then they’d wash their hands with the piss).
There were no toilets (in Europe) so people used to go to the bathroom in buckets or chamber pots..

There wasn’t any sewage systems either, so they would just throw the shit in the street, literally.
Aight I’m done... after this.

In the summer of 1858 in London, a catastrophic event called the Great Stink happened.

This was because their river (in which they drank and bathed with) was completely filled with raw sewage.
The Europeans are here and upset because their ancestors literally bathed in Shit.

Post all the Anti-African bullshit you want, none of that will negate the fact that y’all thought bathing was dangerous.

Sewage systems have been around for MILLENNIA and y’all was like “we good”
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