Who invented soap?

Answer 1

The origins of personal cleanliness date back to prehistoric times. Since water is essential for life, the earliest people lived near water and knew something about its cleansing properties - at least that it rinsed mud off their hands.



A soap-like material found in clay cylinders during the excavation of ancient Babylon is evidence that soapmaking was known as early as 2800 B.C. Inscriptions on the cylinders say that fats were boiled with ashes, which is a method of making soap, but do not refer to the purpose of the "soap." Such materials were later used as hair styling aids.

Answer 2

Someone back in prehistoric times who accidentally spilled some of the fat from the meat he/she was cooking into the ashes. Those ashes contained potassium hydroxide (potash) as do all wood fire ashes. This probably happened many times before some prehistoric human discovered that the product formed could be used for cleaning. We will never know for sure but this lucky discovery probably occurred because it was common even in the early days of our country to scour out the pans with the ashes of the fire to remove food particles before washing. Incidentally this is still often done by campers even today. Even today soap is made from lard and potassium (or sodium) hydroxide.

Answer 3

Soap is made from mixing fats with alkalis, and the first soaps were made by mixing animal fat with leftover ash from wood-fires. I read a story that it was invented by accident, when fat and ash from animal sacrifices in a temple were washed into a nearby stream, but I have no idea if it's true.

Answer 4

Watch the movie "Fight Club" it has a good explanation, lol

Answer 5

A very dirty person

Answer 6

try wikipedia

Answer 7

settlers made it up, it was made from lard

Answer 8

I DID