Health Benefits
Some toilet waters were once considered restorative skin toners and to have some medical benefits. The journal Medical Record reported in 1905 that a toilet water spray restores energies lost in business, social, and domestic situations. History shows that toilet waters have been used for cosmetic purposes. During the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries a type of toilet water called "plague waters" was supposed to drive away the bubonic plague.
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