Did you know that the Greeks and Romanians were washing themselves in public baths investing in water pools by pouring water on their parents only without using soap!
Did you know that the Greeks and Romanians were washing themselves in public baths investing in water pools by pouring water on their parents only without using soap! At that time, soap was used as a medicinal drug at that time, and sometimes as a detergent for woollen textiles only. But what many do not know is that the first use of soap in cleaning the body as we do today in our time, was from Mesopotamia, in the Sumerian era, specifically in the third millennium BC. As we find the mention of soap and its use in cleaning the body in Sumerian literature more than 4500 years ago. There were public buildings dedicated to washing and bathing with soap and water. Mesopotamia used water, frying, oil and some perfumes as basic ingredients to make soap, which is similar to soap produced in some parts of the world nowadays and known as cold soap! The Mesopotamia civilisation has been characterised by urbanisation and urbanisation since ancient times, as it was interested in cleaning the body