The History of Soap - Today I Found Out
Today I found out that for something that’s supposed to be clean and pure, soap has a murky past. No one knows for sure when soap was first invented, although it appears to have been around since the dawn of civilization. One of the reasons it’s so hard to pin down soap’s first appearance is that it can be made with a few, simple ingredients; in fact, just an alkali mixed with fat or oil ...