Journal
A Short History of Soap Making
From ancient cleaning pastes to the small studios of today.
Ancient roots
People have combined fats and ashes to clean for thousands of years. Early soap was closer to a paste.
Soap becomes everyday
Over centuries soap making refined and spread, eventually moving from workshops into large factories.
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