Аннотация
Covid 19 brought to light the importance to personal and environmental hygiene and hence masks came into usage.Personal hygiene and community hygiene are an integral part of health and needs to be a priority for all.Throughout the Indian History and culture, we find importance given to the same.This paper tries to look into the historical understanding of hygiene and materials used for cleansing.Literature review and understanding of hygiene in the present day have been used to analysis and frame this paper.Through this paper the author shall conclude that no matter how much did the society change over a period of time in history, it still stressed upon the cleansing agent and cleanliness.