By Ana-Marija Dolaskie — Jul 31, 2025
Did you know that dirty, stinky barbarians invented soap? Watch our video to see how it changed hygiene forever. Tag a soap maker you love and share this history with them!
Soap making can be traced back to a few ancient precursors, specifically the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, but the Gauls really sent it-- mixing animal fat and beech or elm ash to make paste that gave their hair a reddish glow. By the second century AD, they were using soap to clean clothes or even scrub the bath. Wild, right?
Sources: https://theconversation.com/the-dirty-history-of-soap-136434
Publication: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/bk-2015-1211.ch009
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