The practice of covering the body with perfumes is as old as the oldest civilization. In India, herbs - Saffron - were rubbed on the body as an antiseptic. This helped them stay healthy.
In ancient Egypt women did not use soap to wash their bodies. They used soda. When finished they rubbed their bodies in fragrant oils. Cleopatra bathed in milk and honey.
Concubines of ancient Persia and Assyeria ate herbs and flowers until the perfum oozed from their pores. Other women might have used the same beauty treatment, but only if their husbands were wealthy.
Clay has been used in Morocco for thousands of years. It is an exfoliant and may even have tore the top layers of skin off. Their main beauty product was olive oil. It cleaned the skin and kept it smooth and suptle.
Indonesian princesses bathed in sheep or cows milk. Do not rinse after.
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