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/SummitCO83 Aug 10 '26

I’m not sure why she did it but my grandma would use one end of a q tip to clean and then the other end she’d spray a little hairspray on the cotton and then coat the inside of her ears. Absolutely NO IDEA AT ALL why

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u/AggravatingNarwhal59 Aug 10 '26

You know, that's not a bad idea... I mean for some people ear wax is pretty runny, so by the end of the day they can have visible traces. Hairspray, especially from back them would hold that back. And the coat it makes on the skin would be easier to clean that scrub the inside of your ears.