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 😅

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

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

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

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"

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

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.

so basically, the sharma family when they came from india were the cleanest people there

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 😅

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

Thank God for AFRICANS who taught cleanliness and hygiene. True royalty. I would say more, but imma hush. Some nerve .....

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

i can't possibly imagine having a period in the regency era, respect for the girlies that did

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

That is why the death rate was so high, hygiene is important...

I couldn't live back then...

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

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 🤢🤮

I’m sorry for all the Europeans but it’s 21st century and the most challenging and hard issue for me when I made European trips, it was toilets! I am a Turkish person and even now, people think they are hygienic and my reaction was how do they live like this? In Paris, Barcelona… many cities, I don’t even say toilets were not clean in the malls, restaurants and hard to find soap etc. But even the clean ones, you only use toilet paper. We use both water and toilet paper

Bridgerton was a fictitious place. Where they took baths every day and the never went to the bathroom. So we don’t need to think about that. They all smelled as if they just popped out of the dryer. At least in my mind. 😊

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.

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

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? 😂😂😂

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

Wow and British people say they came to civilised Indians when we were advance back then in terms of shampoo & bathing also in brushing teeth, nature perfumes & textile 😂 also in Indus Valley we get mention of toilets & proper hygiene I am so shocked about unhygienic things this high class British were lacking

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

That's one of the reasons they wore a ton of petticoats/ layers underneath their dresses. They also held bouquets called "nosegays" to keep the "nose happy."

Soo the harappan and mohenjodaro civilization was much more advanced then the bridgeton civilization. Their drainage system was so much more efficient.

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)

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.

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

Wah, I feel like Ancient Asians were more more hygienic. Our ancient ruins and books say " We took a full bath every morning "❤😂

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

This is where it became common manners for the gentleman to walk closest to the street, and let the lady walk on the inside. If someone was chucking the chamber pot contents out an upper window, it would more likely miss the person closest to the wall/awning/overhang and hit the person closest to the street. Also, the swage ran in the road, and if a carriage happened by and splashed the muck, the gentleman would be the one splashed and not the lady.

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

.... 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

seriously they had the audacity to call Indians uncivilized, dirty and barbarians and what not while they themselves needed lectures regarding hygiene that was and is being taught to small kids of our country. we took bath daily and knew how to keep ourselves and surroundings clean, I feel so sorry for their servants what they have to go through on daily basis, our ancestors were literally true gems. proud to be bhartiya. 😇

me: do i really wanna know? my brain: sure, you eat breakfast, just watch it. my stomach: 🙄

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 😂

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’m glad I live with modern plumbing

I need one of those copper bathtubs for myself please

I always think about the smells during the sex scenes 🤢🤮

When Anthony had Kate fighting for her life in the garden 😂

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

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

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

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

The barber doctor from flapjack makes sense now

Now Elizabeth Bennet walking in the mud makes a lot more sense now

I guess you get use to the smell…

I think I need to take a bath righ now hahahahahahaa I feel dirty 😂

Didn't they dig wells back then? In my country, Indonesia, people back then didn't always rely on the rivers for clean water, because yes they were not always clean, especially for the people who lived along the downstream. Instead, they used water from the wells that always provided clean water, and the wells were like everywhere. They were easy to find, like every household must have one, especially for the people who lived far from the rivers. Taking a bath every day has been a must until today. Yes, many people body-wasted our rivers back then, but they also used to have restrooms separated from the house. The room was not literary a room like today's restroom. It was only a little space in the backyard, faaar from the main building, so it wouldn't pollute the house. People just dug the soil in the ground and wasted there, buried it, and cleaned themselves with clean water from the well afterward. So they didn't keep human waste in the house even only a while, yucks. Never heard that kind of thing in my country.

Harrapa n Mohenjo Daro had better sanitation facilities than regency era mansions 😂

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

Thank God I wasn't born back then!!

I was thinking of their toilet need the whole time I watched the well polished and presented bridgerton series 😂 idk why, it may sound crazy!

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

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.

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

And everyone was excited about the carriage scene all I could think of is how crazy the smell had to be 🥴😭

It's never far from the back of my mind when I think about the idea of time travel or even living in the past that my nose would probably NOT be able to tolerate being there.

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

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

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

They probably did sweat but maybe less than you'd think as their clothes were made of natural fabrics

I'd like to live in my delusions that bridgerton was a beautiful smelling alternative of the regency period, thank you very much. 👏

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It's nothing short of amazing that they managed to survive that. The stench is just the tip of the iceberg. The risk of inevitable diseases must have been just rediculous. And the water was absolutely the source of disease at the time. 💩ing in it tends to have that effect.

I’ve always wondered this! Thank you for posting

I could've lived without knowing this

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

Nasty pew pew pew

That bathtub comment is inaccurate. While yes, a personal bathtub was incredibly rare, shared bathhouses were used by everyone of the upper classes including civil servants who would be expected to use some of their wages to attend the bath houses.

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

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!!! 😎😃😎

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?

London politely refused to address the problem until the death of Prince Albert. Then there was interest in studying plague, epidemic and pollution in London. Drinking water wells on proximity to sewage pools. The great Embackment on the north shore of the Thames concealed London's first proper sewer. Also during the Regency Beau Brumel popularized the wearing of clean linens and garments as high fashion...though at ruinous expense.

Most people could only afford 2 set of clothes. Changing clothes often was only for rich.

The Moores had to show them how to wash and keep clean. You left that part out.

The fact that now is the best time for balls and parties that happened before because people can stay more hygenic and not suffer from the smells in the room, but we're the ones who are either in their houses or in parties that are absolutely not like how they used to be is just sad

I will never watch Bridgerton the same way again💀💀

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

Goodness gracious! This is such an eye opener! So grateful for the facilities we are blessed with these days.

Yrah, one thing is the upper class was nor dealing with many "dirty" thing. They wouldn't cook or clean so Having to refresh themselves daily with a cloth and then were clean clothes few times a day I would assume they were actually very clean. I guess periods eere the most difficult time.

and europeans really thought they were the master race 😂

The Moores trained them in this area

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

The wealthy also ate a lot of sugar

flush toilets were becoming common in upper class houses in the 1780s so i hardly think the nobility was peeing in the corners of the ballroom in the 1810s. next time please do more research and apply more critical thinking to what you decide to present to the audience as fact. some nuance would go a long way. youve got the entire comment section here thinking they were relieving themselves in the corner of the room 💀💀💀💀

Me after watching this : sit on my toilet like a king. Feeling richer than those nobles during bridgerton era 😎