Tfw your fantasy of finding a medieval waifu is ruined because you realized everyone before the 1800s didn't wash...

Do you honestly think a woman wouldn't care about something like that no matter what age?

>pungent

lad she would've smelled like dung, rotten food particles, piss, sweat and god knows what other shit they were embroiled in

plus she would no doubt have had shit like worms, skin diseases and STDs

That's because you are a dirty fucking slav who only washes when the rain catches him in the field.

...

Its a half meme. Hygiene was certainly lacking, but more in an infrastructural sense and in conjuction with the close habitation of domesticated animals. This is what made things Smell. Personal hygiene wasnt all that terrible. People were able to wash themselves, with water soaked rags and sponges. Their limited fresh water supplies simply didn't warrant bathing though, they needed it for cooking and drinking.

People washed but not often.

Fresh water could have been heated under a stove and then poured into a barel.

Soap and oils were widely available in the ancient world and must have been also for the middle ages (at least for the burghers and nobles)

Also don't ask please where they got the fresh water from. There is almost no large permanent human settlement on earth without a steady supply of fresh water.

The cities smelled like shit because they were full of animals and had shitty plumbing.

>disease everywhere
>shitty tasteless non-nutritious food leading to hundreds of conditions
>bad housing & weak clothing against the elements
>horrific dental hygiene
>no makeup for 90% of the peasantry so all the women over 18 looked like ugly hags and witches

the smell would be the least of your problems

>Agricultural laborers had to wash at the end of the day by default

Why would they "have to?"

because the Knights demanded they wash their wives and daughters before they used them

This.

The whole meme of Europeans not bathing in the "dark ages" is completely retarded.

The Roman tradition of public bathhouses continued in the former empire and spread elsewhere.

Medieval Europe literally had giant soap factories to satisfy the demand for soap.

open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/history-science-technology-and-medicine/history-science/the-history-soapmaking

What about brushing their teeth? I would not kiss a qt 18 yo virgin peasant girl if she had yellow and rotten teeth

Good question on teeth.

I am really interested how they solved or not that problem.

>woman without make-up looks like witches
Let me see, you are British?

Italian

>medieval waifu
>not wanting a late 19th century waifu in a french countryside village

pleb

>french

enjoy syphilis

Kek'd

They didn't have sugar as accessible, and that's the #1 cause of tooth decay.

If she was rich and chubby she might have tooth decay, but a peasant eating bread six days a week probably had some pretty pearly chompers.

Did they brush teeth with something or was concept meaningless?