Romans used urine as mouthwash. Really. They also used to wash their togas. It made them really white, supposedly.
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Romans used urine as mouthwash. Really. They also used to wash their togas. It made them really white, supposedly.
Well, that’s what a fuller does. He uses urine to treat raw sheep’s wool, to remove the lanolin and make the fibers more pliable. The wool workers in Rome had the right to collect urine from public lavatories, for that purpose.