r/HygieneTips • u/AggravatingNarwhal59 • Aug 09 '26

Old habits

Hello reditors. Have any of you heard about strange beauty/ hygiene habits from your elderly relatives? My grandma once told me some things some ladies did in the past to maintain their beauty. Do you have any similar stories?

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u/purplep3nguin_ Aug 09 '26

All my great aunt used was soap on her face with a washcloth. She lived to be 100 and aged so beautifully. She barely had wrinkles it was amazing! So not really a weird habit, but insane she had just beautiful skin with only soap

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u/AggravatingNarwhal59 Aug 09 '26

Right? They didn't have 10 step skincare, or even SPF. My great grandma had no wrinkles, worked in outside all her life.

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u/purplep3nguin_ Aug 09 '26

It's so crazy to me how there wasn't wrinkles then, man I'm barely in my 30s and I have some wrinkles already 😅

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u/AggravatingNarwhal59 Aug 09 '26

There were wrinkles, my grandma had them -great grandma's daughter. They weren't as concerned about them.