Personal hygiene involves practices like bathing daily, washing hair and scalp properly, brushing teeth twice a day, trimming fingernails, and wearing clean clothes. This helps remove dirt, sweat, bacteria and prevents body odor. Specific hygiene habits include bathing daily using soap, thoroughly washing armpits and genitals, avoiding sharing towels and soap, washing hair with shampoo and conditioning it, brushing teeth for two minutes twice a day without rinsing, trimming fingernails short, and washing clothes after each use to remove sweat and bacteria. Maintaining good personal hygiene is important for health.

1. Lesson 2
PERSONAL HYGIENE

2. Personal Hygiene
What do you think of when you
hear the words personal hygiene?
Personal hygiene refers to
practices that you can do to take
care of your own health,
by keeping your body clean and
your surroundings sanitized.

3. Take a Bath
You should take a bath every day,
especially after sweating or
if you get dirty.
Germs and bacteria love sweat and
dirt. So if you do not wash
off sweat or dirt on your body, the
germs and bacteria will quickly
multiply. Bacteria and sweat also
cause body odor.

4. Take a Bath
What are the things you need to
remember when you take a bath?
• Use soap and water.
• Soap your armpits, genitals and feet
thoroughly.
• Use a clean towel to dry your body.
• Avoid sharing soap and towels.

5. Care for your Scalp and Hair
To properly wash your hair and
scalp, you should:
• Wet your hair thoroughly.
• Use just the right amount of
shampoo.
• Massage your scalp well to
remove dead skin cells, excess oil
and dirt.
• Rinse until you don’t see any more
bubbles or soap suds in your hair.
• Dry your hair and head with a
clean towel.

6. Care for your Scalp and Hair
it’s important not to share
towels, combs or brushes.
Do you know why?
You should not share towels,
combs, brushes or even hair
accessories to avoid the
spread of head lice or nits.

7. Brush your Teeth
The best way to prevent tooth decay is to brush your
teeth with toothpaste that contains fluoride.
Here is the proper way to brush your teeth:
• Squeeze a pea-sized amount of toothpaste onto
the toothbrush.
• Brush all teeth, especially the molars in the back,
for at least two minutes.
• Spit the toothpaste out, but do not rinse your
mouth.
• Use your hands and some water to wipe your mouth.
• Rinse your toothbrush with clean water.

8. Cut your Fingernails
Are your fingernails dirty?
Are they long?
You should be cutting your
nails short enough, following
the shape of the nail.
Keeping nails trimmed is
important to maintaining
your health.

9. Wear Clean Clothes
Dirty clothes carry dirt and
sweat and, of course,
microorganisms.
Body odor can also result from
wearing dirty clothes.
You must make sure that your
clothes are washed after every
use to remove the dirt, sweat
and microorganisms
stuck to them.

10. Wear Clean Clothes
Underwear – like undershirts,
boxer shorts, panties and briefs –
are right next to our skin so they
collect sweat, dead skin cells and
body fluids.
These clothes must be washed
after every use to prevent
bacteria from multiplying
on them.

11. Healthy Habit
Keep Good Hygiene