Soap. We’ve been using it all our lives, and not just us. Our great-great-grandparents also liked a good wash at the time. Archaeologists have even found soap remains from 2800 BC during excavations in Babylonian ruins. And the first soap recipe dates back to 2200 BC. Credits for this may be given to the Egyptians. Soap has therefore been something we all cannot do without for centuries. Okay, little nuance. The Romans preferred to stick to oil, but they came back to that centuries later.
If we promise you everything about soap, then you will also get the whole history shabang. Because if we look at the Middle Ages, soap was not just anything. It was a luxury product that the well-to-do bourgeoisie liked to clean themselves with. What about the rest? They stuck to the mix of sand and soda. This quickly changed thanks to the industrial revolution, when mass production of soap became possible. What a hole everyone must have jumped in the air that they could now leave the house nice and fresh and fruity. So much for the historical facts about soap.
