Records have shown that Egyptians bathed regularly. There was a medical document found called "The Ebers Papyrus" which described the combining of animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to form soap-like material. These were used for treating skin diseases and washing. At around this time, Moses gave the Israelites specific laws about personal cleanliness. He related cleanliness to health and religious cleansing.

The early Greeks bathed for artistic reasons. Instead of washi

During the cleaning process, surface tension must be reduced so the water can spread and wet surfaces. Chemicals that do this are called surface-active agents. The surface-active agents perform many important jobs in cleaning. They are classified by their ionic properties in water. These properties are anionic which means a negative charge, nonionic which means no charge, cationic which means having a positive charge, and amphoteric which means having either a positive or negative charge.

According to an ancient Roman legend, soap got its name from Mount Sapo where animals were sacrificed. When it had rain, the water washed away the animal fat and wood ashes down into the clay soil along the Tiber River. Women had found this clay mixture and it made their wash much cleaner.

Soaps are water-soluble sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids. The fats and oils used in soap making are m

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