Hygiene & Toiletry

Hygiene is generally defined as the science that deals with the promotion and preservation of health of both the individual and the community. Detailed definition of hygiene is listed below based on its’ many aspects.

1. Personal hygiene is not just about prevention of illness by maintaining proper living habits but it also means improving our physical and emotional wellbeing. Personal hygiene definition includes maintaining cleanliness of body and clothing, living on a healthful diet, and having a balanced regimen of rest and exercise. We all want to live a healthy long life and personal hygiene is one of the basics of achieving this.

• Substances from the skin that may promote bacterial growth are removed with daily warm baths therefore reducing the risk of infection. Skin care, face care, and hair care are parts of personal hygiene definition that are synonymous to good grooming habits.

• Proper oral care keeps our mouth and gums healthy, which makes eating easier and promotes the start of good nutrition specially if combined with healthy eating and dieting.

• Because of maintaining personal hygiene, we now, not only look and smell good, we also feel good about ourselves making it possible for us to achieve our goals in life.

2. Domestic hygiene definition is the proper sanitation in preparing food and maintaining cleanliness in our homes. Our section in hygiene practices and hygiene tips gives us ideas on how to maintain the cleanliness in our homes.

3. Public hygiene definition is the science of preventing disease and promoting health at community level. The most basic part of public hygiene is the provision of an adequate supply of clean water and supervision of food supply. It also includes the containment of communicable disease with the help of an adequate number of doctors, nurses, and hospitals to serve each community ensuring medical services are available to everyone regardless of their financial circumstances. 

Public hygiene definition is not complete without mentioning about proper disposal of garbage and sewage, and control of air and water pollution.

4. Industrial Hygiene definition is synonymous to Occupational Hygiene definition which means the discipline of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating and controlling health hazards in the working environment. It has the objective of protecting the workers health and well-being while safeguarding the community.

5. Mental hygiene definition is the recognition of mental and emotional factors in healthful living. An online search on mental hygiene will result to pages mentioning mental health as there is no “official” mental hygiene definition however; the importance of mental health is discussed in most health pages as this is a key to achieving all around health.

A balanced life style is an essential part of any hygiene definition as our mind, body and soul should all be in sync with each other to be really healthy.