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World Service,1 min

When did humans first discover soap?

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Humans have used soap for millennia. Chemist Prof Seth Rasmussen explains how we know about the earliest soaps and the ingredients that would have gone into them. (Image: Beautiful colourful soap bubbles on black background, Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus)

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