Show BRITONS FIRST TO USE SOAP roman conquerors Conqueror 3 said to have hava transferred custom to italy from wrence it spread one of tile the few inventions that are not ascribed to foreign ingenuity la Is that common household article soap it is said that the ancient britons were the first makers of soap and that the romans when they conquered that island took the invention back with them to italy most of what we wash with Is mado from fat but in foreign lands there are natural soaps the is the soap root of spain the soapberry soap berry of chill and the bark of the peruvian soap tree at a little ton in mexico soap actually takes the place of copper coinage in another part of 0 the same sout soui american republic the inhabitants eat soap finding much nourishment there therein n the french term for soap savon by the way owes its origin to the town of savona in france where w h ere vast quantities of the material were formerly 0 manufactured |