Who remembers the time when your mother would sit on your stumps to wash you?

Journalist Daut Daut through a Facebook writing comes with an interesting story about using shampoo and soap as a tool when mothers, long ago, washed all their children in the yard together.

Read below Mr. Daut:

The account of shampoo and soap
In Kosovo my generation is the first to have started using the shampoo as a permanent tool for washing hair. When we were children, and when we could not wash ourselves, our mothers would wash us only in soap. Shampon was probably a part of that time, but he had not yet entered our culture of bathing. Maybe because it was expensive.

During the summer my mother assembled us children and washed us in the yard. We were waiting for our turn. When our turn came, we would sit on a wooden stump, and it would draw water from the pot, which would boil in the holes and then experience cold water by proving the temperature in its hand. Since our families then had many children, under the sun we waited on each other's nakedness and laughed. Some also frowned that they did not want to bathe. But who asked if they wanted to or didn't want to. It was a necessary process that summer was more than once a week.

My mother's voice was heard when she soapied our head and face. We didn't always wash with soap. This was often done with items of clothing, such as radionya, Biljana, and later Faxiʹ. Biljana created more foam, and their hair remained bright. For us, washing with these detergents has not been our favorite. If we had a scratch on our skin that as a child always happened to us during the summer games, the detergent created an almost unbearable burning. Right at the end of the process, the mother used to take an arm with teeth on both sides, and she used to stick it into our short hair. She didn't do this just to brush us up, but more to check our heads if we had a lice or a thorax. Now you hear her voice when she did the job and follow the order, you who spoke to another in line. A single towel was followed by the hand, and it became wet when it reached the last one, who, in turn, looked at it with resentment.

Other days, we washed in a jealousy. The old and large houses have had khahamdjik (from Turkish: small bath). Hemamdjik stood by wooden doors decorated with gravuras, and it was often the duration of the ycmluks who covered the entire wall and served in putting up their clothes. The women washed their hair with a mat, which was an olive - colored mud but hygienic, and it made a glow in their hair after painting with a dagger. It was also kind of a condictioner for hair.

Compared with today, this may seem primitive in washing, but for that time it has been extremely orderly and highly adequate to maintain bodily hygiene. In other European countries, it has been even worse until late. Suppose, in England until the early 1960 ' s, when houses had no water supply and sewers, all members of the family were washed in a manger, filled with water, and usually placed in a kitchen or room near the chimney. The washing was done without changing the water. We've been washed with running water even with bowl or cash. So our bathing culture has been more advanced than what was once in Western Europe.

When we grew up and began to wash ourselves, however, the shampoo became permanent. We used mostly the shampoo called "Brezov," produced by a plant that came into our bags, like this in the picture. I washed my hair twice with the amount of this bag. When I started going to high school, I discovered a shampoo since it was only sold at the pharmacy. I forgot his name, but it was exclusive. It produced a pleasant aroma that lasted for hours and increased their brightness and volume. When I even started shaving, just to appear a man, I enriched the arsenal of deodorants. I was surrounded by philties called ésuper Silverʹ, which were the product of the world's renowned giant Gillette. Because of the name of this firm, we called it the ciletes. The ones we called for a use. BICH, which was plastic - bearing and safe for shave, came later and cost more.

After a shave, however, I used the water from the colossus Bronon, which had a fantastic aroma, but unfortunately it did not last long. Bryon was packed with plastic and the form of those printed metal bottles that keep important people in movies filled with alcohol, and they occasionally take it out of their pocket to catch a sip. Then, I gave his face a layer Solaa was or "Nivea," and so, as a shaven and scratched word says, I developed self-confidence, perhaps overconfidence, so that I could go out puffed up in front of girls.

Women washed clothes by hand. In the pot, ash was replaced by brown soap and brick shape. With large baskets filled with clothes and outcrops under the fig tree, you could see them going to the river or the village river. This has been hard work even though people had fewer clothes back then.

In the early 1970s our cities in Kosovo were equipped with water supply and sewers. This facilitated washing and added to the use of degenerates and deorodants of personal hygiene. The market was filled with these products that were also world - known fries.

However, I mostly enjoyed a shampoo and coloss water that our workers brought from Switzerland. The champagne in plastic bottles had a measure of 0. 5 l., pink and sweet smell. The coon's water had bottles of glass measuring 200 feet [200 m] in size, and it covered with a design of highlighted black stripes since it was touched. He was burned with fire, and his skin was tightened by removing his wrinkles as if after surgery. They both have a negative 0. 80 SFR. These two things have made a big impression on me, so I always think that when I get to Switzerland, I'm going to ask them to find and buy. But every time I go to Switzerland, I forget to do that. Maybe they don't exist anymore. It's been 40 years since I first used them.

Shamponi, not only in Kosovo but also in Europe, is a new tool of hair washing. In the East, however, it is a product used for thousands of years and was first produced in India. The word "sampon" is the word of several languages spoken in India, but it has the root from the Sanxrist. Thus, the first Europeans to have had contact with the shampoo were English, but they did not use it until late because in Europe, men and women used hair - covered wigs.

For the first time in Europe, he was brought to England by an Indian named Sake Dean Mahham, who has been a traveling man, a physician, and a businessman. Mahomed, with his Irish wife Jane Dali, in 1814 in Brighton opened a public bathroom (hamam), and her clients proposed the shampoo, along with other deodorans. Shampone experienced great pupulratites and began to be produced and used, but only among British aristocracy. For general use, however, it was 1927 when Hans Scharzcopf was discovered in Germany.

Soap was used earlier in Europe. It is believed that it was produced 4,000 years ago in Babylon or in modern Iraq. In Europe, however, it came late and was brought to the Arabs, who had built a sophisticated water supply system in Spain and with it the purity of the body. European countries gradually began to receive this production from Spain and learned how to maintain cleanliness. In England, however, soap production began in several cities and became rapidly popular but not as in Italy, where it became more rapid and more popular.

Soap has been used since early in Albanian regions. It is hard to know the extent of its use, but it is known that during Ottoman rule it has been produced enormously from Allop to the Balkans. The production and use of soap to us has certainly increased when Jews from Spain came to the Balkans. Those who settled in Thessalonica brought not only the expression of the production and use of soap but also a new culture that had been practiced in Spain of Arab rule.

Today our bathrooms are filled with different kinds of soap, shampoos, and air conditioners, but we've had hardly one of these. Since I remember these things, this is not a long time.