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There are many stories surrounding how soap was first made. No one knows for sure. Here are some of the legends: Pliny tells us that the Celts invented soap and were taking regular baths long before the Romans adopted the habit. A soap-like substance was found in clay cylinders during the excavation of ancient Babylon dating as early as 2800 B.C. There were Inscriptions on the cylinders that say that fats were boiled with ashes, which is one of many methods of making soap, but the inscriptions do not mention what the "soap." was used for. The story goes that in 1000 BC Rome, that a woman washing cloths in a river at the base of a hill noticed that the cloths be…

Please bear in mind that this is a man made additive that is not found in home made soap. Scientists Say Shampoo Ingredient Could Cause Memory Loss KOCO ChannelOklahoma.com Although most people wash their hair once a day, few know that what's inside their shampoo may cause brain damage. Eyewitness News 5's Jessica Schambach recently examined a government-funded research project that is attempting to gauge the effects of a chemical commonly found in a number of personal hygiene products. DEA -- or diethanolamine -- is the ingredient that causes bubbles to form in soap, bubble bath and shampoo. Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Public He…

Homemade Shampoo 4 oz of castile soap with any scent is that available – plain, peppermint, eucalyptus. ½ oz of rosemary - stimulates the hair follicles and helps to prevent premature baldness ½ oz of sage – has antioxidants and keeps things from spoiling and is antibacterial ½ oz of nettles – acts as a blood purifier, blood stimulator, contains a large source of nutrients for hair growth ½ of lavender – controls the production of sebaceous gland oil and reduces itchy and flaky scalp conditions 2000 mg of MSM – provides organic sulfur to your scalp, which improves the health and strength of your hair. It also helps to drive herbal nutrient into the skin an…

Where did the idea for Vaseline Petroleum Jelly come from? http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/vaseline.asp Robert Augustus Cheesebrough. In 1859 when oil was first found in Pennsylvania, Cheesebrough was a 22 year old chemist in Brooklyn who had become an expert at extracting kerosene from cannel oil. He realized that petroleum products would be the fuel source of the future so he headed to Pennsylvania to get his piece of the action. He noticed that a colorless film called "rod wax" collected around the pump rods on the oil wells, gumming up the works until it was removed. He also observed oil workers who would slap the stuff on a cut, instead of a b…

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