Hygiene was a necessity of everyday Ancient Roman life, especially bathing. Bathing was made more accessible and open to all once The Roman Baths were built all over Ancient Rome. The Roman Baths were community bathhouses that held many different rooms and facilities including rooms that had different temperature baths, which consisted of a cool room, warm room, and hot room. There were saunas, or at the time known as “sweating-rooms”. There were also changing rooms, gyms, and rooms for massages and other health treatments, one of which were plunge baths. Those were the most common facilities to occupy a bathhouse at the time, but bigger and more popular bathhouses had libraries, private baths, lecture halls, fountains, outdoor gardens, and brothels. Brothels and private baths were accessible to the more affluent of guests.…show more content… Once the bathhouses were open to the public, people bathed two or three times a week. The bathhouses were primarily used during the late afternoon and nighttime, but they were open usually at 5 or 6 AM and closing at around 10 PM, making them susceptible throughout most of the day. Usually, at the end of a long work day, Romans went to the bathhouses to socialize and relax, and spent about an hour or two doing so. Bathhouses were very important to the Romans, but sometimes Romans couldn’t get to bathhouses. It might’ve been because they didn’t have time, it might have been because the bathhouses were too far away. For whatever reason, getting to the bathhouses was a struggle for some people. That’s when the genious idea of building your own bathhouse at home arose. At home bathhouses usually consisted on a toilet, a sink, and of course, a bath. Overtime, this idea became very popular amongst many ancient romans, and has crept it’s way into modern day, which are now known as
