We had a bath in our house and my mum used to bath all three of us together on Sunday evening. My dad wouldn't let us waste water by having separate baths. I remember Camay soap and we also used Pears sometimes and like GC we wasted none of it. If we had no soap or shampoo my mum used to wash us with washing up liquid..
My mate always had a tide mark at the back of her neck and her mum used to scrub it with a toothbrush over the kitchen sink. She wouldn't have minded but she was 14 by then.
Despite having bathrooms and showers now, there is still no shortage of dirty, smelly people around. You only need to visit Netto to spot them. Over the years I have had several women at my clinics who are strangers to soap and water. It is unpleasant to have to examine dirty people and I did resort to actually asking them if they had had a wash recently.....Yuk!!!
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