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Handmade soap. Author: Seferikalbiye.

The recent Covid pandemic has been a reminder of the importance of good personal and household hygiene to avoid the spread of infectious disease and to care for our health.

The word ‘hygiene’ comes from Hygieia, the goddess of health of the Ancient Greeks, who was the daughter for Asclepius, the god of medicine, and of Epione, the goddess of the soothing of pain. Seven centuries before Christ, the Greeks already associated cleanliness with people’s health.

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