SOAP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2202, 14 May 1896, Page 48

SOAP.

ITS ANTIQUITY. ■ .'. ' Soap is not a modern invention. It is twice mentioned in the Bible, first In Jeremiah, and again in Malachi. History tells us that more than 2000 years ago the Gauls manufactured it by combining beach tree ashes with goats' fat. ■ . • A few years ago a soap-boiler's shop was discovered in Pompeii, having beea buried beneath the terrible rain of ashes that fell npon that oity la 79 A.D. The soap found in the chop bad not lost all of its effioacy, although it had been buried 1800 years. At the time that Pompeii was destroyed the soap-making business was carried on in several of the Italian cities. ••* Pliny the elder speaks of soap, and says that because its price was so high manj substitutes were used, among them a kind of glutinous earth and fine sand mixed in the juice of certain plants that made lather. • , ■ As early as 700 A.D. there were many - soap factories in both Italy and Spain, and about 750 A d. the Phoeaioians introduced the business into France, the first factories being established at Marseilles.

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