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Baffling bathing customs

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Croy, Anita. Bizarre history of beauty ; Publication details: New York, NY : Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2019.Edition: First editionDescription: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1538226928
  • 9781538226926
  • 153822691X
  • 9781538226919
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 391.64 C954 Available 33111009232956
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

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.

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