They did wash their private parts at least once a day if not more. They changed their knickers etc everyday again depending on what they were doing sometimes more. If they had been out hunting all morning they naturally would have worked us a sweat, and if they were meeting some ambassador or punka walla that afternoon the last thing they would want to do is meet them stinking of horse sweat and Gawd knows what. First impressions and all that Jazz. Henry of course towards the end of his life did stink,(in more ways than one) but he couldn’t do much about it. I wonder if he was aware of just how much he stunk?

Washing their hair was another matter. I think it was considered a bit of a health hazard espeically for woman given the length of time it would take to dry, whilst it was drying there was a chance they could catch a chill etc, so I don’t think it was washed often and perhaps only when the weather was warm enough to help dry it quickly.
They had a rudiementry form of soap not like we have today where you get a good lather from it. It was basically made I believe from pig fat scented oils and herbs.

They did use to bathe but it wasn’t often, although Elizabeth 1st did have a bath every 6 months whether she needed it or not.

However the nobility did have an annual bath, but everyone used the same water to wash in. It worked out that first the man of the house had his bath, when he had done his missus had a bath in the same water, and then the kids took their turn the eldest first and so on. Personally I think they were probably dirtier after their baths than they were before them.

Teeth cleaning generally they used rubbed their teeth with a damp cloth if their teeth still felt they need a boost to clean then they might have dabbed the cloth with a little brick dust and then rubbed their teeth.

As far as I know woman didn’t shave their armpits or legs, but that doesn’t mean to say it didn’t happen there may have been woman who did shave. LOL got a vision in my head of Anne sat in the bath shaving her legs and thinking about using the razor to cut a few collops out of Henry.
I don’t think they would have shaved their pubic areas, but again there may have been a few men and woman who did shave their pubic area.

Lice and fleas were rampant in the court, certain herbs were used to help keep them down and I believe vinegar was used I suppose as a form of disinfectant. Wormwood I believe was used to help to control lice, and some people put little bowls of animal blood under their beds to also attrack the lice and fleas that would have infested their beds. I believe a Camphor candle was also used it would be placed in a room and lit the room would them be sealed and the candle would be left to burn itself out. I don’t think it was espeically big as they were expensive, even for the nobility. Theorectically the smell of the Camphor would kill any bugs.

James 1st who became King in 1603 was riddled with lice as was the court and anyone who went there always went home with them. James called the lice which again he was riddled with “wee beasties” he actually disliked any form of washing, and the most he did when it came to washing was to dip the tips of his fingers in a bowl of water. That as far as he was concerned was enough. He also wore heavily padded clothing so if you look at his pictures he always appears to be larger than he actually was, the reason for the heavy padding was because he wa so fearful of assassination. Understandable given how all of his Stuart ancestors died either in battle or as a result of murder, by some P***ed off Scottish noble. I suppose his mother could be excluded from that fate, as she died at the hands of an English headsman, instead.

IIRC, shaving of armpit and legs really started as a fashion statement after World War I ..think flapper girls. But became more mainstream during WWII due to lack of nylon stockings.

Shaving of pubic started in 1970’s p*rn movies and gradually became more wide-spread in the 1990’s and later.

Tudor Monestry Farm has Ruth showing personal hygiene of the era including using fne toothed comb to clean her hair.