Personal hygiene is the principle of maintaining a clean body along with practices of personal care and grooming oneself.

Personal hygiene has been practiced since antiquity with considerable variations to what is hygienic across different cultures and times. Nowadays, modern medical science has set standards of hygiene for every aspect of modern life.

Personal hygiene’s importance is global and goes above and beyond personal boundaries. Good personal hygiene prevents the spread of diseases and dramatically increases the average lifespan of any population.

 

There are many different Aspects of Personal Hygiene; the most important ones are listed below:

Head and Hair Hygiene

Eye and Ear Hygiene

Oral Hygiene

Genital Hygiene

Food, Hand and Nail Hygiene

Skin Hygiene