Questions 31-40
Prehistoric times
water was used to wash off 31
Ancient Babylon
soap-like material found in 32 cylinders
Ancient Greece
people cleaned themselves with sand and other substances
used a strigil – scraper made of 33
washed clothes in streams
Anc
used soap
Ancient Rom
animal fat, ashes and clay mixed th
from about 312 BC, water carried to
Europe in Middle Ages
decline in bathing contributed to occurrence of 36
37 began to be added to soap
Europe from 17th century
1600s: cleanliness and bathing started becoming usual
1791: Leblanc invented a way of making soda ash from 38
early 1800s: Chevreul turned soapmaking into a 39
from 1800s, there was no longer a 40 on soap.
