A Brief History of Soap

1350 to 1750 was the worst of the Little Ice Age, so it might have been too cold to bathe much.

I doubt we even need to use soap since we're already baiting in chlorine water.

The Yardstick of Civilization

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An old saying: "Ugly as homemade soap"

Castile bar soap is the best soap to use for health reasons. Too many chemicals in other soaps.

I never knew the science behind soap, nor the history!

this channel is why I can't get stuff done

Learn something everyday😊

Wow! Imagine a period when the CDC gave useful advice instead of lying.

In Tyler we trust

A good bar hand soap and hot water is amazingly good at removing stains from clothes, with only a very small amount of soap needed to rub into the stain for a few minutes and then rinsed out.

There is a recipe for soap in the books of Moses in the Bible. God gave it to them to be used after someone touches a dead body. They were to apply it, wash with water, and stay outside the camp for 7 days before being inspected by the elders before returning. Amazing that they had totally modern health and quarantine practices and they had no idea what was occurring. They did not describe any of this in medical terms but in religious. They did not attribute physical cause and effect yet had modern practices. Quite a coincidence. 🤔

Wow! The Sun King stunk like a wild animal! WTH?

Every time I go to like a farmers market or arts and crafts show I end up walking away with soaps because It's literally the only thing I can use from those places😅

Ask yourself where the fats for modern soaps come from.
Not all of them are tallow (rendered animal fats), and wasting perfectly good food grade vegetable oils seems pretty wasteful (though I can't be certain this isn't done).
Then consider margarine: this is made by deodorising and processing fats (some margarines can include tallow - usually industrial/bakery). The process involves saponification of the oils, using sodium hydroxide, and the non-water soluble stuff {technical term} goes to waste. The soap is then acidified, using sulphuric acid, to convert it back to fat. Anything water soluble goes to waste.
The waste stream is then acidified to convert any remaining soaps. The recovered oils are then sent away to be processed further into soap.
Thought you might like to know.

I love Dr. Bronner's Castile peppermint soap!

You only have to sing Happy Birthday once while washing hands if you do it in the style of Marilyn Monroe singing to President Kennedy... 😀

So Tyler Durden was wrong??

The Romans discovered underwater concrete, soap was not out of their capabilities.

Sadly when you see who refuses to wash hands after pooping in office bathrooms, leaves little to respect about your coworkers. Always a common topic of discussion in the office is who to avoid because of poor bathroom training.

I suspect soap goes back to the Neolithic, also there are plants that have a sap that can be used as soap.?

Greetings from the BIG SKY. Soap and I are old friends.

My grandmother kept a bowl on the stove especially for collecting various fats from cooking meat. She and PoPo made soap from their collected fats when they had enough for a batch. That was in the 40’s and continued as long as they were physically able to do so.

I do living history centered on North America from late colonial-French and Indian War up to the Santa Fe trail times. It’s notable how much soap was sold on Americas frontier, from trading post up yo the western Rendezvous, and how much was in the wagons of the Santa Fe traders.

Ha !!! I worked over 4 decades in R&D of one of the largest soap manufacturers in USA.

Like so many others, you get the distinction between "soap" and "detergent" wrong. "Detergent" is a functional category; as a noun it means "cleaner", as an adjective "cleaning". That's all it means. It says nothing about its composition, and there are a vast array of compounds and mixtures that are detergents when used or intended for cleaning. For instance, wet sand in sandblasting is a detergent.

"Soap" by contrast is a chemical category, not a functional one. It is stated correctly in the video, although it can also refer to mixtures where the soap is the chief functional component, and before saponification products were fractionated, the term (in whatever language) referred to the crude product of saponification, i.e. a mixture of what we now call "soap", glycerol, and water. Not all soaps are useful as detergents; some, practically insoluble in water, are used as lubricants and anti-caking agents.

So a detergent can be soap, but not all soaps are detergents.

It's quite possible that ancient Jews invented soap, since they were forbidden to eat animal fat and were told by the Lord to burn it on the altar. And there were LOTS of these sacrifices! See the book of Leviticus.
When that fat melted down and mixed with the ashes from the fire, all they needed was for it to rain.
The drains were almost certainly full of bubbles at times.

Ok here is the truth back in bablyon (today its called iraq but 2800 b.c it was called bablyon) anyway couple of kids played with olive oil and some plants and forgot about inside something was supposed to shape metal under the sun for to long if became rocky soap but without a smell however they noticied it made their body less oily so they used it to clean themselfs, then in the golden age (750 ac to 1500 ac) other guys in middle east said hey this flower smell nice what if we mix it with this rocky soap and there you have it this is the trutn you can go back to google to confirm from most sources

Today soap is a by-product. There is an unsaturable market for glycerin so many ways are used to get people to buy the soap. Most is made into detergent and many hooks are advertised to make your product more desirable. Adding brighteners and perfumes etcetera. More is spent on advertising the product than the value of the product itself. Lever brothers also deserve an honorable mention.

Thx, now i kwown how to make my 3 page essay about the history of soap

Has you done a history of Christmas? Tis the season! 🎄

Can you imagine thinking that smelling like rot was better than taking bath?

But African has used soap Long before they even knew about soap

Damn this was genuinely such a good video I made my family watch it

Thank you very much

EXCELLENT

Oh, what a lyer!!

Aretaeus of Cappadocia wrote around 2nd century AD: “the Celts, which are men called Gauls, those alkaline substances made into balls, with which they cleanse their clothes, called soap, with which it is a very excellent thing to cleanse the body in the bath.

I came here because I work in the food industry, but I may be going over to the soap industry. Thank you sir.

Thanks i came here after watching fight club

I mean the vikings were known to be religiously clean... So much that anglosaxon women were more attractes to them!

The idea that "bathing is bad for you" only came about after the black death in the mid 1300's

His name is "sal-ve" and he improved a use of salt??? That's so hilarious to me.... Salve means "hello" in latin, but "sal" means "salt" and "ve" is pronounced "we" so his name is "we salt"....

I still use sunlight soap to wash dishes and clothes. Works like a charm and smells lovely!