I knew it all along!
http://boingboing.net/2011/01/04/i-havent-used-soap-i.html
Many times in my life I will reflect back on the human condition when wondering if I need something. I have a some fascination with what I call “the human condition”, and I hope to bring that to the world of my third game.
So I think to myself, “You know, we didn’t use soap as we do today, 100 years ago.” and then I think, “Well, they were stinky. They used perfumes because everyone stank.”
But alas! It wasn’t their lack of soap, as much as it was their lack of filtered water and - potentially - proper bathing equipment. (the now-immortal loofah) Not everyone had showers like we do. At best they’d mix some herbal concoction together that was more perfume-esque than soap. There wasn’t modern deodorant until the early 1940s.
That being said, this article does not shock me. I will change nothing, of course, because I bathe twice a week. Eve will smell after one day of not showering, so she showers every day. Vael does not smell. Eve will pipe up and say my hair smells sometimes, but for the most part, I just need proper shampooing techniques… twice a week.
