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Urine was used as a cleaning agent in Ancient Rome. \u00a0Source: Wikipedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

The patricians in Ancient Rome were considered grossly wealthy for their time.\u00a0 They lived in palaces, had numerous servants who fed them, cleanse them, and empty their chamber pots.\u00a0 But even with all of this lavish wealth, the Ancient Romans did not have toothpaste, mouthwash, nor any form of laundry detergent.<\/p>\n

Sure, the ancient Romans achieved impressive architectural feats such as the Pantheon and Colosseum.\u00a0 But when it came to personal hygiene, the Romans were lacking.\u00a0 So how did they clean their clothes, you ask?\u00a0 Well, they didn\u2019t have detergent.\u00a0 Nor did they have soap, which did not exist until hundreds of years later.<\/p>\n

Still, clothing had to be cleaned somehow.\u00a0 According to Serious Facts<\/a>, a servant at some point had the sense to urinate on their master\u2019s clothing, and soon realized this actually make white clothes whiter and colored clothing brighter.\u00a0 Perhaps the young servant did not realize urine contained ammonia, a cleaning agent found in many of our modern day products such as Windex and 49.\u00a0 Thus, urine became the staple clothing cleaning agent.<\/p>\n

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Public latrines in Ancient Rome.<\/p><\/div>\n

The process by which servants and clothing cleaners began obtaining enough urine to clean loads of laundry is kind of intriguing.\u00a0 According to Yahoo, urine vessels would be placed on street corners for people to use in public in case they needed to relieve themselves.\u00a0 (My guess is typically men would be the ones more likely to use them).<\/p>\n

The urine was then carried back to the fullonica (Roman laundromat) where it was diluted with water.\u00a0 The dirty clothing was soaked in this mixture.\u00a0 While it soaked, someone would occasionally stand in the urine and stomp on the clothing to provide the \u2018washing effect\u2019 of modern day machines.\u00a0 Afterwards, the clothing was rinsed again in water to remove the smell of urine.\u00a0 And voila!\u00a0 You have clean clothes.<\/p>\n

But urine wasn\u2019t just used for cleaning clothing in Ancient Rome.\u00a0 Once it was discovered how powerful of a cleaning agent urine was, the Romans began using it as toothpaste and even mouthwash!\u00a0 Can you imagine people today using urine as a means to cleanse our mouths?\u00a0 I\u2019d say our modern day society has an opposite view on the \u2018cleansing\u2019 factor of urine compared with that of the Ancient Romans.<\/p>\n

Then again…they say if you\u2019re without a first aid kit, urine will disinfect and clean out a wound better than anything else.<\/p>\n

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