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greenwavelengths t1_iyne9be wrote

Reply to comment by AVR_Pearn in Has teen acne been around since prehistoric times? Did cave-dwellers have zits? Or is it related to modern eating, exercise, pollution, etc.? by Snoo-35252

It’s sort of a myth that we automatically just have better hygiene standards today than at any given time in the past. Times like the last few centuries in Europe, sure— bad hygeine, there’s evidence of that. But if we have a desire to be clean now, then chances are we’ve had a desire to be clean for hundreds of thousands of years and figured out how to do it with the tools and resources available to us.

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AVR_Pearn t1_iynfmhq wrote

One's definition of hygiene standards though can depend. I mean yeah we didn't always have soap and yes I know it's thousands of years old, but we probably didn't you know do more than splash water on our faces when we were cavemen

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