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Article #346: Peachy Keen, Squeaky Clean

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






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