“You are very wrong.” I said. “You should trust my word because I lived back in those times. There was a lot of hygiene, especially in rome. The most certainly used brushes for their teeth.” I looked down “They looked a bit striaghter than this brush though, but they were for the same purpose nonetheless. Ancient Egyptians made the first toothpaste, I’m not sure what it was made of, but ours in Greece and Rome were made with either crushed up bone and shelves or some other herbs. But this herb, the mint, I recognize it’s smell, was mostly used on dead people to hide the smell of the rotting body during the funeral. It could’ve also been used as an early perfume. Also just so you know Roman soldiers were provided with thermae and latrines. Thermae’s are bath houses I just realised you probably didn’t understand that. But thermal baths are still used all over the world. In Ancient Greece where I lived most of my life, we used to bath for aesthetic reasons, but we didn’t use this block thing” I said as I picked up this sticky bar that left bubble residue on my hands as I touched it and tried to remember the word “Soap. No we used many things, but most commonly used is oils and the strigil. But the strigil was used mostly by men even thought women also used them from time to time.” I looked at him “How does soap get rid of the dirt though? I understand you can scrape the dirt of with the strigil before finishing your bath, but the soap does nothing, no?”