A lecture by Duncan Geddes
The early history of personal hygiene is all positive; cleanliness is good for health and goes with sexual attraction. But during the renaissance a boom in beauty advice and body work led to problems. Baths went out of fashion, the church accused cosmetics of leading to vanity, and some of them were poisonous. All the same, the cosmetics industry has never stopped growing.
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