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Fact: The Gauls and the German tribes of the Dark Ages of the 8th century AD were known to make soap with animal fat, beech tree ashes and goat's milk which produced a creamy lather and contributed to moisturizing and improving the smoothness of skin.
Fact: The original invention of Soap is so old that the name of the inventor has been lost over time, although the first use of Soap is believed to have originated in the Babylonia in 2800 BCE, one of the civilizations who inhabited the lands of Mesopotamia.
Fact: The English soap-makers suffered a severe blow when speckled soap was banned because it depleted the country’s reserve of tallow trees, making candles too expensive for the poor. The British Soap Tax was passed in 1712, making bathing a luxury for rich people.
Fact: Historians tend to agree that Soap was invented c. 2200 BC and the first known use of Soap was during the Ancient World of invention.
Fact: The Phoenicians (in modern day Lebanon) developed their own soap c.600 BC using goats tallow and alkaline salts mixed with water.
Fact: In 1861 the Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay discovered a process to reduce costs even further. This process made a huge leap in commercial soap-making in England that had been boosted in 1853 when the Soap Tax had been revoked.
Fact: An ancient Egyptian medical document called the Ebers Papyrus that was written c. 1550 BC describes a soap-like material used for washing and treating skin diseases.
Fact: During the 8th century, soap-making industries for washing clothes were established in France, Italy and Spain where soap was made with goats fat and the ashes of Beech trees. It was at this time that the French started using olive oil and adding fragrances to produce soap.
Fact: The Ancient Chinese of the Han Dynasty (A.D. 220) discovered a naturally occurring form of saponin that could be extracted from the ashes of knotweed and wormwood.
Fact:Fact: Personal hygiene declined in the Middle Ages in Europe and the general lack of cleanliness contributed to the spread of the Black Death in 1350 AD.
Fact: The Elizabethan period in history was the Golden Age of Exploration and colonization and in 1607, several soap-makers were on the second ship from England to Jamestown in Virginia. The American colonists later invented a process to produce lye-soap by making lye from wood ashes and water.
Fact:In 300AD Arabian civilisations made both solid and liquid soaps using aromatic and vegetable oils. The Arabian soap making process consisted of mixing sesame oil with a potash, alkali and lime and pouring the mixture in a mould to make bars of soap.