[Tell It Right]

If I recall, Romans at one point put a high value on cleanliness and they believed sweating a lot was a means of deep cleansing. Thus they put fires underneath the floors of the baths to make them into saunas.

[a fool in paradise]

>>and they believed sweating a lot was a means of deep cleansing

I believe it does help detox

[SunkenCiv]

They also used strigils to scrape off old skin (mostly to remove dirt, I’m sure) and tweezed off body hair which was considered a sign of barbarism.