Many legends refer to the invention of soap. One story places its creation in ancient Rome on the spot where priests used to sacrifice animals to their Gods by burning them on altars situated on hilltops.
When the remains, a mixture of burnt animal fat and ash, came into contact with rainwater, it flowed down from the hillsides into foaming pools. When clothes were washed in this sudsy mixture, it was found that the clothes were cleaner than with plain water. Interestingly, the part of Rome where all this happened was of course called Sapo.
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The first literary reference to soap is found in the texts of Pliny the Old, a Latin writer. According to him, the Gallic people using a mixture of goat fat and beech tree ash, invented soap.
We also know that Ancient Greeks used the sap of a plant called saponaria for cleansing their bodies and clothes. |
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