Ah the sponge stick, the fastest way to end fights with your siblings. Watch them scatter as no one wants to take a shot to the face with the sponge stick! Almost like a royal sceptre 😂
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I’m guessing you soak the sponge stick in a bucket of water after use?
Why wouldn’t you just use a towel that can be washed?
A bucket of salt water or vinegar.
Cloth is expensive, a sponge soaks up water well, and can be washed. Knowledge of microscopic bacteria at the time was near-nonexistent.
Yeah I didn’t think they had “soap” then. But vinegar is actually not a bad idea. That probably kills something, maybe?
Vinegar and (sufficiently saline) salt water both kill some bacteria.
Funny enough, the Romans did have soap, adopted from the Gauls.