LIFE photos on Google
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google. Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive. Most were never published and are now available for the first time.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google. Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive. Most were never published and are now available for the first time.
What’s the history?
The earliest known evidence of soap use are Babylonian clay cylinders dating from 2800 BC containing a soap-like substance. A formula for soap consisting of water, alkali and cassia oil was written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC.
The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 BC) indicates that ancient Egyptians bathed regularly and combined [...]
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