Early history of keeping clean

Prehistoric times:

–water was used to wash off 31

Ancient Babylon

–soap-like material found in 32 cylinders

Ancient Greece:

–people cleaned themselves with sand and other substances–used a strigil – scraper made of 33–washed clothes in streams

Ancient Germany and Gaul:

–used soap to colour their 34

Ancient Rome:

–animal fat, ashes and clay mixed through action of rain, used for washing clothes–from about 312 BC, water carried to Roman 35 by aqueducts

Europe in Middle Ages:

–decline in bathing contributed to occurrence of 36–37 began to be added to soap

Europe from 17th century:

–1600s: cleanliness and bathing started becoming usual–1791: Leblanc invented a way of making soda ash from 38–early 1800s: Chevreul turned soapmaking into a 39–from 1800s, there was no longer a 40 on soap.