Show soap in early days before soap was invented what did the ancients do to keep clean pliny Is the first to mention soap and he de dares clares it to be an invention of the bauls though he prefers the german to the gallic soap it was made in england in early times for richard ot of devizes devices writing in the reign of richard I 1 quotes the words of a french jew who wrote still earlier at bristol there is nobody who Is not or has not been a in the reign of edward I 1 soap was largely manufactured at coventry in lon don the first soap works were dished in 1524 soap seems to have deteriorated in elizabeth a reign his record that good soap was al most an impossible luxury and clothes had to be washed with hemlock net ties and refuse soap it Is not men cloned by shakespeare |