Soap is mentioned in the Bible, but it was probably not the kind of soap we use to-day, but ashes of plants and similar purifying substances. It is believed that soap was first made by the Germans from goats’ tallow and beech
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19238, 27 November 1930, Page 4
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