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New Handcrafted Soap – MarineFresh
Our new handcrafted soap – MarineFresh, made from the highest quality ingredients using the melt and pour method. Discover a host of evocative fragrances and tactile textures.
Your hands body and soul will feel cleansed, nourished and moisturised!
The colour or design may slightly vary.
Take a look also to our New Handcrafted Soap – Rose
History
Ancient Middle East
The earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap-like materials dates back to around 2800 BC in ancient Babylon.
A formula for soap consisting of: water, alkali, and cassia oil.
Written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC.
The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 BC) indicates the ancient Egyptians bathed regularly and combined animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to create a soap-like substance.
Egyptian documents mention a similar substance used in the preparation of wool for weaving.
Box for Amigo del Obrero (Worker’s Friend) soap from the 20th century, a part of the Museo del Objeto collection
Ancient China
A detergent similar to soap manufactured in ancient China from the seeds of Gleditsia sinensis. In addition, another traditional detergent is a mixture of pig pancreas and plant ash called “Zhu yi zi”.
True soap, made of animal fat, did not appear in China until the modern era. After all, soap-like detergents were not as popular as ointments and creams.
