What is the history of soap?

Can you imagine a world without bubbly body wash or foaming hand soap? It was a very, very stinky place! Join Mira and Finn on a gross and fascinating journey through 4,000 years of history to discover how humans finally learned to get clean! You won't believe how the ancient Babylonians made the first soap using wood ashes and animal fat. Or how ancient Romans skipped soap entirely, choosing to scrape off their sweaty, oily dirt with a curved metal blade called a strigil! Want to know the grossest part? People actually bought bottles of that scraped-off athlete sweat to use as medicine! Yuck! We also uncover why people during the Middle Ages were terrified of taking baths, believing warm water would let sickness inside their bodies. Plus, learn about the incredible true story of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, a medical detective who realized that simply washing hands could save millions of lives—even if older doctors mocked him for it at first! From magical floating soap to 10 billion pounds of bubbles, get ready for a squeaky-clean adventure!