17 Interesting facts about soaps

The Celts made their soap from animal fat and plant ashes and they named the product saipo, from which the word soap is derived.

An excavation of ancient Babylon revealed evidence that Babylonians were making soap around 2800 BC.

Babylonians were the first one to master the art of soap making. These ancient peoples used a mixture of ashes and water to remove the grease from wool and cloth, in textile production. The more this ash/water
mixture was used, the more soap was being formed throughout the process. This soap was the product of the alkali in the ashes reacting with the grease on the textiles.

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