Baffling bathing customs
Croy, Anita,
Baffling bathing customs - First edition. - New York, NY : Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2019. - 48 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm - Bizarre history of beauty . - Croy, Anita. Bizarre history of beauty. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ancient world -- Good for the skin -- It's pouring down -- Scrape that skin! -- The middle ages -- What's a bath? -- Lessons from the crusades -- Around the world -- The early modern world -- Taking the waters -- Washing at home -- The nineteenth century -- Cleanliness and class -- Wash your hands! -- Sea bathing -- The twentieth century -- What's that smell? -- Bath night! -- The twenty-first century -- Come on in -- Timeline -- Glossary.
"Since ancient times, people have constructed elaborate rituals to keep their bodies clean. There have also been periods when bathing was rare. Baths have even served as social centers and therapy solutions. Whether it's perfume or Palmolive, scrubbing in or sea bathing, body odor or bathing in milk, people have always had opinions about cleanliness. This book illuminates the strange history of the customs and products used through accessible, fun text and vivid full-color artwork sure to draw in even the most reluctant reader."--Amazon.com.
1538226928 9781538226926 153822691X 9781538226919
Bathing customs--History--Juvenile literature.
Baths--History--Juvenile literature.
Sanitation--History--Juvenile literature.
Illustrated works.
Baffling bathing customs - First edition. - New York, NY : Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2019. - 48 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm - Bizarre history of beauty . - Croy, Anita. Bizarre history of beauty. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ancient world -- Good for the skin -- It's pouring down -- Scrape that skin! -- The middle ages -- What's a bath? -- Lessons from the crusades -- Around the world -- The early modern world -- Taking the waters -- Washing at home -- The nineteenth century -- Cleanliness and class -- Wash your hands! -- Sea bathing -- The twentieth century -- What's that smell? -- Bath night! -- The twenty-first century -- Come on in -- Timeline -- Glossary.
"Since ancient times, people have constructed elaborate rituals to keep their bodies clean. There have also been periods when bathing was rare. Baths have even served as social centers and therapy solutions. Whether it's perfume or Palmolive, scrubbing in or sea bathing, body odor or bathing in milk, people have always had opinions about cleanliness. This book illuminates the strange history of the customs and products used through accessible, fun text and vivid full-color artwork sure to draw in even the most reluctant reader."--Amazon.com.
1538226928 9781538226926 153822691X 9781538226919
Bathing customs--History--Juvenile literature.
Baths--History--Juvenile literature.
Sanitation--History--Juvenile literature.
Illustrated works.