When Rome made its daring amphibious advance upon Britain, it had the usual arsenal of weaponry. Plus, nail cleaners, armpit tweezers, skin scrapers, and “ear scoops.”
The Roman invasion instilled a new and sometimes painful way of grooming, often in Roman-built public baths. (Depicted above, a noblewoman surrounded by two maids helping her to dress and comb her hair.) The Empire eventually collapsed, but some of those grooming habits, with “equipment” freshly found by archaeologists, have endured.
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