I had first read op as “antidepressants” and I was VERY confused at your response.
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swordgeek@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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.
FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is that shit still Bible-times level expensive or is it like the cheapest shit now?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Not sure how expensive it was during biblical times, but you can buy frankincense resin for $10/100 Gram, so seems cheap.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
LMAO, I did the same. No worries.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
zinc oxide basically dries out the skin, 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.
MuttMutt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Didn’t Versailles have garderobes?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
To add to this: sweating still is normal
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
you don’t burn off your pores? wierdo.
/jk. Guess my point was today we (western weirdos?) use antiperspirants like sweating like plebs is gross. Similarly, it’s rather normal to bathe after a workout or something where you were sweating. sweating is normal, sure. but we’re rather weird about it compared to back then.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It was only a slightly humoristic reply to your “sweating was normal” is all :)