Vintage Hygiene Practices That Are the Very Opposite of Clean

 
Clothes Were Soaked in Urine to Remove Stains

Washing your clothes usually consists of throwing them into a washing machine with some detergent and letting the machine do all the work. If you're lucky, you have a dryer also, and your clothes are washed, dried, and cleaned within hours. However, there was a time when people cleaned their clothes by hand and soaked them in aged urine. The ammonia in the urine would strip any stains present in the clothing. 

Though this sounds gross, it was the most effective way to clean clothes then. Just be glad that's a thing of the past.