Where did soap initially come from?
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A soap-like material found in clay cylinders during the excavation of ancient Babylon is evidence that soapmaking was known as early as 2800 B.C. Inscriptions on the cylinders say that fats were boiled with ashes, which is a method of making soap, but do not refer to the purpose of the "soap." Such materials were later used as hair styling aids. \n\nThe early Greeks bathed for aesthetic reasons and apparently did not use soap. Instead, they cleaned their bodies with blocks of clay, sand, pumice and ashes, then anointed themselves with oil, and scraped off the oil and dirt with a metal instrument known as a strigil. They also used oil with ashes. Clothes were washed without soap in streams. \n\nSoap got its name, according to an ancient Roman legend, from Mount Sapo, where animals were sacrificed. Rain washed a mixture of melted animal fat, or tallow, and wood ashes down into the clay soil along the Tiber River. Women found that this clay mixture made their wash cleaner with much less effort. \n\nThe ancient Germans and Gauls are also credited with discovering a substance called soap, made of tallow and ashes, that they used to tint their hair red.
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It is called Total Fatty Matter. It gives the lather producing capacity of the soap. The more it is the good the soap is.
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Try here\nhttp://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/index.php
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Watching soap operas helped me tremendously - Arabs often laugh because the Arabic that we normally learn as foreigners is MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) and it sounds funny when someone uses it in daily life.  The soap operas, even if they are in a different dialect than the one you speak, will help you use the language in a more natural way.
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Since the beginning of time.
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Another one for wikipedia.com:\n\n"Many soaps are mixtures of sodium (soda) or potassium (potash) salts of fatty acids which can be derived from oils or fats by reacting them with an alkali (such as sodium or potassium hydroxide) at 80°–100 °C in a process known as saponification. The fats are hydrolyzed by the base, yielding glycerol and crude soap. Historically, the alkali used was potassium made from the deliberate burning of vegetation such as bracken, or from wood ashes.\n\nSoap is derived from either oils or fats. Sodium Tallowate, a common ingredient in many soaps, is in fact derived from rendered beef fat. Soap can also be made of vegetable oils, such as olive oil. Soap made entirely from such oils, or nearly so, is called castile soap. The use of the word "soap" has become such a household name that even cleaning solutions for the body that don't have soap in the ingredients are referred to as soap."\n\nThere you have it: fats or oils.
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Just a fancy way of saying soap to use in the shower. It's for the body. Nothing special about it,  it's just overpriced.
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Your Ozzy mate is talking out of his a**e. British people wash the same amount as any one else. Apart from th eFrench of course as they use half the amount of soap per person per year.
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WHERE?\nThe question of exactly where the transfer took place, and where the 'epidemic' officially first developed has always been controversial. Some have suggested that it is dangerous to even try to find out, as AIDS has frequently been blamed on an innocent person or group of individuals in the past. However, scientists remain keen to find the true origin of HIV, as most agree it is important to understand the virus and its epidemiology in order to fight it.\n\nSo did it definitely come from Africa?\nGiven the evidence we have already looked at, it is likely that Africa was indeed the continent where the transfer of HIV to humans first occurred (monkeys from Asia and South America have never been found to have SIVs that could cause HIV in humans). However, who exactly spread the virus from Africa , to America and beyond remains a mystery. It is quite possible that separate 'pockets' of the virus could have been developing in a number of different countries years before the first cases were ever officially identified, making it virtually impossible to trace one single source.
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Its a soap. How many soaps do you know that are real?
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Used to be used in the manufacture of soap, I believe.
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I think so, I used to love soaps, until my divorce when I realized I had my own soap going on in real life, but my older sis is still addicted, so if I go to her house when they're on, it seems like the SAME thing is stll going on, yes there may be a few xtra characters, but it is still all the same!!
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A soap is a surface active agent, which  means it attaches to the surface of a substance or slightly alters the surface energy of the substance.  When two materials are brought into contact suchs as two liquids or a solid and a liquid, or two solids, the differences in the surface energies will determine whether the are immiscible or , in the case of solids, one wets the surface of another or simply beads up on it.  \n\nThe best "soap" needs to be chosen based on what the liquid chemistry is.  For example, if you want to mix a material in water or alcohol or oil.  Each could require a different "soap" to be used.
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When soap operas began, they were all supported by soap companies.  This was to appeal to the housewives that were the main viewers of the show.  There are still many soap operas that are highly supported by the commercials of various soap and cleaning products.
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Eastenders when it was first on.
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They used to be sponsored by soap companies.
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there were different production times for different soaps, but I would say that the average was a week.