Olive oil & Sand

Olive oil & Sand

28/04/2015

 

"Sapo", the Latin word for soap, enters the first century AD when Pliny disdainfully describes Gallic men used a kind of soap from animal tallow and ashes when washing. Romans used traditionally no form of soap. They preferred to scrubden with oil and sand and clean scraping with a strigilis. Whether the use of soap increased from the time the Romans got in contact with the Celtic peoples is not known.

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