How They Managed Hygiene in the Bridgerton Era 

God bless the people who invented plumbing and toilet bowls with a flush.

Then it’s actually true when they say that we’re “richer” than most rich people back then. We have the most comfort and hygiene than they ever had 😅

That means english people were actually savages while Indians and Africans were practising more hygine.

Makes you realise how lucky we are in today’s world of bathrooms & all the products available to us.

It is so hard to imagine these amazing love stories when everyone stunk, literally. Who wants to dance, have sex, and/or kiss someone when they stink so much. I always wondered how women dealt with their periods back then. Now I know.

This is all I will be thinking about when I binge the next season lmao🤣

I feel so lucky to be born in this era after knowing all this

So, thats why anthony was so obssessed with kate's smell. It was very potent or she smelled good/clean. 😭

And then there are people wishing they were born back then 😂😂😂

Everyone adapts to the era they live in. If everyone had bad breath and rotten teeth then it would not have been a big deal. They would have become “nose blind” etc to those things. It was what it was. Many years from now the generations would look back and wonder how we lived the way we are living now.

Oh my gosh I am reading this romance fantasy webtoon (online comic) and it's about this girl that gets sent back in time and she is always fainting because of the stench. It's called "shall we bathe, your grace" and it's hilarious.

For this reason alone, I do thank God that I live in the time of modern plumbing.

And they had the audacity to call the Indians and the Africans dirty after all of this?

Watching this show remembering that when the British were throwing poop out the window, india had plumbing. But now after 200 years of British rule, we’re pooping on the streets

People actually did brush their teeth, changed their underwear very frequently, and would wash the worst bits every day. They didn't have baths all the time because of the labour and costs of heating all that water, but personal cleanliness was super important back then. Admittedly going to the loo left much to be desired, but actually keeping one's self clean was expected and relatively easy

Wait the corners??? They couldn’t go outside and find a damn bush??

And in India we had poets from 3rd Century BC who wrote "even if you are having a simple porridge, have a bath first before eating" and "even if you are clothed in rags, wash it before wearing"

I'm glad I'm a 21 century woman.

Thank god we got the better end of the stick 😭😭😭😭

That was in Europe, most other continents were practice daily bath or showers, specially native/indigenous of the American continent.

Well thank god this was altered because if not that would be alll I can think of. No toothbrush 🪥 no toilets, or running water!

I couldn't live back then...

My thing is the Romans who came way before them left them with some sort of decent hygiene habits and they just decided to regress? 😂😂😂

in the Philippines during the Spanish Colonial Period, intimate body fluids was the reason why the traditional female dress of the Christianized population later adopted a peplum (over skirt made of much heavier material such as wool or cotton) due to the material of the main skirt usually of thin material such as silks over time the peplum became decorative and, depending on the time period, denoted either power (black peplums in the 19th century were all the rage) or had racial overtones (during the latter 19th century the higher social classes disdained the peplum as it looked similar to the lower classes' working apron, yet was slavishly adopted by the half-breed (half-Filipino native half-foreigner) caste) regarding the time period people can go without baths: *Louis XIV reportedly lived his whole life with only 2 baths* there was a reason why barbers had the blue, red, white color combo logo outside the shops: it *reflected their ancient tripartite occupation of haircutter, surgeon, & (unlicensed) dentist* black teeth was much more respected in Japan especially the women; *in Asia white teeth was seen as barbaric, akin to animals* (hence why Mongolians were treated as barbarians as they had no starch in their diet, the main factor of teeth yellowing)

.... not having a bath/shower does not mean they were dirty. the washing bowl and cloth were normal back then and able to clean ppl just as well as a bathtub. so they were not dirtier and cleaning their undergarments (shifts, shirts etc) also kept them clean (as in, kept the person clean, and protected the outer layers from sweat and body odor) so at least the upper class were not dirty/stinky at all

No thank you for releasing this because I've been thinking about these things since season one😭😭

i was also shooketh to learn recently that the black streets in this era were not because of tar or some sort of a road but rather because the ground would be covered with horse poop as the horses they used for transport would just poop anywhere and at anytime.

Why cant we dress like that now that we have the technology to be clean? 😫

I always think about this when I see the men going down on girls in the show 😂

As a normal person this video make me feel so much better abt my life

Belted sanitary items were available into the 1980's. I know because my mother used them, and it is what she introduced to me first. This was in Australia. UK had similar. You had the belt and a stickerless pad, similar to today but the paper as each end was longer so you could tir or clip into the belt to hold it in place. From memory, it wasnt that bad. At school the female toilets included incinerators to burn the pads, plus if it was really heavy, you could add additional pads or even use rags.

I need one of those copper bathtubs for myself please

I wonder about bad breath too! They don't seem to have water bottles or drink much water. Did breath mints exist?

The white shirt fact is definitely true. It was stated that Ben Franklin only owned maybe 2 white shirts. In America (1776 and prior) it was rare to own more than one and mostly they were washed weekly. Some only had one and some slept in them, got up washed their hands and face and out the door they go 😂

I’m glad I live with modern plumbing

If you look at the Temps it was much much colder at that time. But they still stank

Love love love this video! I’ve always been obsessed with medieval histories and it has definitely crossed my mind many times about how their breath stank at that time and the amount of kissing and *you know what* they’ve been doing. Would love to see more informative videos like this❤️

I’ll never watch Bridgeton the same way 😂😂😢

I wonder how servants managed

I guess you get use to the smell…

The pit shields are actually really clever and would still be useful for today

The young woman washing her hair looks just like Justine Dorn from Frontier Patriot.

Gross. Sorry some cultures were advanced in hygiene and some not. The English were definitely not

Thank God I wasn't born back then!!

People saying thanks for plumping, some of us in African villages can't relate. We handled waste with sense. Smh

I'm sorry but this is so disgusting and the crazy part that these things actually happened

I thought they would have used the privy? I didn’t think they were still going in corners like the dark ages during this time?

The Moores trained them in this area

The barber doctor from flapjack makes sense now

Everytime I see a ball on the show, I think about them just squatting in corners in the ballroom

you telling me they use to piss and poop on the floor ?!

There was a city a long time ago that had pluming and this city and way less diseases it’s was very much destroyed like it much of the houses were not left, it’s was weird

How can i watch the 3rd season now without thinking of their smell 😅

I will never watch Bridgerton the same way again💀💀

Interesting video! When im watching this show often I'm thinking damn, I know ya'll stink💀 lmao

And these ppl are seen hooking up all the time randomly...How horrid the smells...

Fascinating...

Nasty pew pew pew

What BBC and Bridgerton gets wrong all the time: YOU WEAR SOMETHING UNDERNEATH THE CORSET!!! That is the right way of wearing corsets. You are never suppose to have bear skin next to a corset!!! Never. It was interesting. The Great Stink!!! So glad I missed that. Take care and have fun!!! 😎😃😎

Very interesting and very correct. ❤

BRO the thumbnail…

I’ve always wondered this 😭

I never thought of tht 😭😭😭

Now what would you all do, if we had no choice but to delve back into this state of living? 🤔

I have NEVER recovered from learning about just how filthy Versailles actually was. Every show and movie always portrays it as this glamourous glittering gold palace but people were literally sh**ting in the stairways and corners because originally there were no bathrooms and no such thing as indoor plumbing, and then you add a hot summer and no a/c...the stench alone. Again, when people glamorize the past, they don't think of these things. Ladies had satchels of flowers to carry to give them something pleasant to smell. What's just super gross is most people who did bathe did it in these cess pits, or they would have water brought into the home for the tub and every family member would use the same exact bath water because it was a lot of effort to lug in that water by hand. Thank you 21st century!!!! This is my era.

Meanwhile the “Aztec savages” bathed every day and had engineered how to bring fresh water into their city even going as far as making the system twice, one in use while the other was cleaned. I’m glad my ancestors were hella clean, listening to this video was tough 🤢🤮

STOP please 😩

I could've lived without knowing this

This takes the romance off Mr. Darcy...........

And this is why if I were to live in that era, I would choose to live in Turkey. They didn’t have this problem. It was Europe for the most part

We are so much better off today.

They uswd😂

Slavery had been abolished in Britain by the Regency era. Granted people from Europe and the "New World" quite possibly still had slaves, I am just unfamiliar with Europe in particular on this issue.

I regret watching this

I already knew this about that era! No plumbing!!! How was women able to keep their bodies clean during monthly cycles? Whew!!!

I feel like I would have smelled so bad back then 😢I have hyperhidrosis and I take two showers a day 😵‍💫

Didnt we all learn this in school? One thing that always stays with me are the perfumed wigs that masked the rotten smell of their hygiene

so in conclusion, realistically, we don’t actually wanna exist or be born in the regency era, we just wanna live in the fantasy world that Shonda Rhimes made up 😅

It’s a NO for me. 😂😂

The poor used soot to brush their teeth and it was a recent trend to use charcoal toothpaste!? 🤯 the billionaires just laughed and laughed watching all the peasants brush their teeth with charcoal 😂😂😂

Why were outhouses such a novel idea...?

So the women’s bits were just always out?! No border between the outside world?

Barber shop and dentists shop

👁️👄👁️ My face when I thought she said the N-word the first time 😂

This video put a nasty smell in my nose 😖

Suaranya tidak jelas kadang besar kadang kecil 😅😂 pengeditnya galau 😂😂😂😂

Filthy rich

Why did I watch this video😷

Actually people didn't sweat much in their clothing despite the layers. In summer more breathable fabrics like linen were worn which keep the body cooled. Also...some things might be shocking to us but it was absolutely possible back then to stay clean and not-smelly. And let's be honest: I'd prefer my own pot a servant takes care of afterwards over the average nasty club toilets nowadays

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This is so gross

This is why I couldn’t get into this show. There’s too much fantasy fluff. Realism in some way is necessary to make a story believable.

Bridgerton is now ruined for me. 😩 Especially those steamy love scenes. All I will think about now is the stench 🫢

I really enjoy this show but it is NOT historically accurate and the costumes are all over the place hugging at least multiple decades to multiple centuries in some scenes. The new season is attrociously modern looking with all of the very visibly polyester fabrics..... Thus said; it is romantic fiction/historical fantasy so it's fine. Just don't call it accurate because it is not at all.

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I am simply disgusted

I'm officially disgusted 😂

Who even thinks of these things? I never ever thought of this watching this show y’all brain are weird asf

Might find offensive? Lmao. I can assure you, even to this day, we find it offensive cos they still don't bathe well, smh

i can smell the video🤢🤮