Vintage Hygiene Practices That Are the Very Opposite of Clean

 
Urine Was Used to Bleach Hair

The Elizabethan era was a time full of bizarre beauty techniques, and when it comes to hair, the list of gross practices is endless. When women of that era wanted to lighten their hair, they needed something with ammonia. Why? Well, ammonia acts as a bleaching agent and would brighten their locks. But what had ammonia in it during that time? Yep, it was urine. That's good old-fashioned pee.

Women would douse their hair in pee just to achieve a lighter color, which simply would not fly today. The lengths people went to for beauty are astounding.