Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — Antiquity of Soap. [ARTICLE]

Antiquity of Soap.

Soap has been in use for 3,000 years, and is twice mentioned in the Bible. A few years ago a soap boiler’s shop was discovered in Pompeii, having been buried beneath the terrible rain of ashes that fell upon that city 79 A. D. The soap found in the shop had not lost all its efficacy, although it had been buried 1,800 years.