Bathing Quotes
“Bathing should never follow a meal, as it withdraws the blood and nervous vigor demanded for digestion, from the stomach to the skin.”
Catharine E. Beecher,
'Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt-Book' (1846)
“Milk is valued for giving a part of its whiteness to the skin of women. Poppea, wife of Domitius Nero, took 500 nursing asses everywhere in her travelling party, and soaked herself completely in a bath of this milk, in the belief that it would make her skin more supple.”
Pliny
“Florida oranges are so juicy that you have to eat them in the bathtub.”
California saying
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