What were they made from, like mercury lead arsenide or something?
I am only aware of one thing, Potassium Alum, https://www.razorus.com/alum-the-miracle-used-for-centuries Other than that, perfumes, herbs, or bathing. And remember, people smelled different than they do now. 300 years ago, Humans were not consuming all kinds of chemicals, preservatives and overly processed foods. You really do sweat what you consume. And, just like today, body odor is a genetic thing. Some people sweat less and stink less. And here is an article about how many Asians do not sweat, or sweat very little. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/east-asians-no-body-odor-dont-need-deodorant-rcna156778
Would Ganges River stink more if that wasnt the case?
Alum stone.
Please add pic if possible
No pic. It is a mostly clear crystal half the size of a cigarette pack with rounded edges.
Wrong post for me ahh
Are you asking about antiperspirants specifically or are you using that term to more generally refer to things like deodorant, perfumes, etc?
As per my dreaded days in the high school locker room, before there was axe body spray (1 can per day), there was nothing. And both were fucking awful.
They weren’t.
Check out wikipedia. There was one product developed in the late 1800s (“Mum,” which was zinc based), then not much happened until it was repackaged as Ban roll-on in the 1940s.
The idea that sweating is bad is very much a modern concept.
To add to this, sweating was normal, and though there were various ways to deal with the smell of body odor, the rich mostly just caked on perfumes like a teenage boy discovering girls for the first time.
Other methods of keeping it in check include things like bathing and simply going nose-blind.
Yeah, before then you just stunk.
Some cultures started bathing but many did not until later on. The “Dark Ages” was a time where bathing was nearly nonexistent and cleanliness wasn’t even in people’s minds. People would relieve themselves in buckets and just toss it out the window.
Here is a really good one. Look up information about the Palace of Versailles, huge building with tons of rooms and huge parties with tons of lord’s and ladies’ eating and drinking but no bathrooms. People would relieve themselves in the stairwell’s. That is why the upperclass wore tons of perfume, to overcome the stench. Modern society has come a long way in just a few hundred years.
Didn’t Versailles have garderobes?
I had first read op as “antidepressants” and I was VERY confused at your response.
What’s even better is just the other night I was on this thread about Frankincense being an antidepressant. So my brain immediately went to that.
Is that shit still Bible-times level expensive or is it like the cheapest shit now?
Not sure how expensive it was during biblical times, but you can buy frankincense resin for $10/100 Gram, so seems cheap.
LMAO, I did the same. No worries.
zinc oxide basically dries out the skin and have some anti-inflammatory, hence why its used as diaper cream(babies and adults and used for older people who are prone to stasis dermatitis) in 40%/20% apparently its also useful for specific types of dermatitis, like perioral dermatitis.
George Carling used to say that you had to put a bayleaf leaf under each arm.
