Soap: A luxurious necessity

Here's an interesting item about the history og soap making:

Soap: A luxurious necessity • Sunday, Jul 9, 2006

Since its first manufacture, soap has gradually metamorphosed into a daily necessity from luxury item and no doubt the most common and useful item in the home. Indeed, one 19th –century chemist declared that the quantity of soap consumed by a nation was an accurate measure of its wealth and civilisation. Today, it is regarded as essential to hygiene and good health. Decades ago, little evidence showed the use of soap in personal hygiene before the common era. There are reasons to doubt that this...

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