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It is thankful that we live in a societywere also recorded to have bathed for
whereby cleanliness is absolutely essentialaesthetic reasons, but according to
for healthy living, aesthetic appeal andhistorical facts, they did not use soap and
general hygiene purposes. Industrial cleaningused ashes, sand, pumice and clay before
supplies are readily available for companiessmearing themselves with oil. They would then
that take health and hygiene more seriously.scrape the oil and dirt off with a metal
Cleaning is more about reducing the number ofinstrument  called  a  strigil.
bacteria or germs spreading from everyday
dirt and grime, However, some argue that tooSoap was used for many years after, right
much cleaning can have more damaging effectsthrough to the Roman civilisation where the
on your health, from the harmful chemicalsfirst of the Roman baths was introduced
that are used in some cleaning products whicharound 312 B.C. They used soap and the waters
can  act  as  an  irritant  to  the  skin.from the aqueducts as recommended by the
Greek physician Galen by the second century
The cleaning process is certainly not a newAD. However, during the fall of the Roman
trend: household and industrial cleaningEmpire cleaning standards had dropped
suppliers have produced various products eachdramatically resulting in the deadly plagues
year making the content safer and improvingof the Middle Ages. By the 17th century,
the standard of cleanliness for consumers.bathing and personal hygiene came back into
Early usage of soap to clean clothing andfashion  in  much  of  Europe.
surfaces was nothing more than in the form of
ashes, animal and/or vegetable fats and clay.Detergents
This soap-like substance was popular during
the Roman civilisation and so gave rise toThe making of soap stayed more or less the
awareness  for  personal and general hygiene.same until around 1916. Post world war
culture saw a lack of essential supplies for
History  of  Soapthe production of soap, namely vegetable and
animal fats as a main ingredient. The first
The birth of industrial cleaning supplies assynthetic detergent was put together from a
we know it was not discovered until muchnumber of different raw materials that were
later into the early 20th century. Howeveravailable. Normal soap when mixed with
personal cleaning can be dated as far back asmineral salts in water would form an
the prehistoric times, when the earliestinsoluble substance known as soap curd,
people living near water-based areas used towhereas the new detergent would not have the
clean themselves or mainly wash the mud offsame effect, which was a main advantage of
their hands. The soap-like material was thenusing  synthetic  detergent.
discovered in 2800BC, at the bottom of clay
pots, during the excavation of ancientSince then the production of detergents had
Babylon. The soap consisted of water, alkalisurpassed the sale of soap in household
and cassia oil; the ingredients were recordedcleaning. Detergents with soap are commonly
on  a  Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC.used in either liquid or powder form. This
also sparked the production of more
Ancient Egyptians are recorded to have bathedindustrial cleaning supplies across the
regularly using a soap like product combiningglobe, with companies and buildings using
animal and vegetable oils with alkalinestrong products that contain safe chemicals
salts; this was also used to treat skinand non-toxic solvents for use on various
diseases as well as for washing. The Greekshard surfaces cleaning.



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