Do low-wash advocates hate the hard work of laundry? In ancient China they’d have been pounding their clothes with ash and ground-up pig’s pancreas

• Men in particular, it seems, are drawn to the low-wash movement because they despise doing laundry. Yet it’s easy compared to doing it in ancient China
• Back in the day, doing laundry meant pounding clothes with sticks, and basic detergent – ash, soap beans, and ground-up pig’s pancreas were common ingredients