Deodorant

contributed by Ethnomedica 19 Jan | 16:39

Plants have been used in families as deodorants. Onions can mask the smell of sweat. Family members would suggest the person with the problem would cut a raw onion in half and then rub this under their arms.

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From Dorset (UK) in the 1940s

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