"A Traveler's Treat: More ritual than hygienic, it was considered good manners for a host to offer his
guest the services of his bathroom after a dusty and arduous journey. Ah, the joys of being treated by a
winsome slave girl as she scraped his skin of perspiration and dirt with an iron utensil! Ah, the shock
when she completed her work with a good dousing of cold water from an urn setting on a stand nearby!
(As a rule, the Greeks much preferred sponges, oils, scrapers and rinses over the type of soap available at
that time. Perhaps it was no wonder, for Grecian soap was manufactured from a combination of goat fat
and ashes.) "

A long time ago, I posted the name of the scraper the Greeks used to remove sweat and dirt before bathin after exercise. It is called "strigil".