Vintage Hygiene Practices That Are the Very Opposite of Clean

 
Sulfur Was Used to Remove Freckles

Today freckles are seen as charming and beautiful. But there was a time when people thought they were ugly and compared them to warts and blemishes. Therefore, it was common practice to try and rid your face of them by using sulfur. This isn't the first time people put weird products on their faces in hopes of meeting some beauty standard. Thankfully, freckles aren't a thing people want to remove nowadays. 

Rubbing sulfur on your skin is an easy way to burn yourself so if people of those eras weren't already suffering enough, add this weird practice to the list.