Show bauls and ana romans first to find value of soap very early in biblical history it was found that the ashes from fires which were then always of wood were useful in r moving grease from the hands ashes were thus thug tile earliest form of soap and they remained so for a long time the first of tile the more civilized peo ples pies to discover liow how to make real leal soap were asere the romans Ko roaDS they learned the secret from the bauls who used a preparation made from wood aslies ashes rind goats tallow for wa washing illig their hair anti beards thus making them a fiery red a color they considered becoming coming tile the romans developed dei eloped the new discovery considerably hut but it was many years before improved methods of soap making were introduced in soine some parts of the world soap making Is even now carried out in murti much the same way us as in roman times an old disk cask with bojes bored in one end is filled with alternate layers lasers of straw lime and wood couil iiii ashes hs the cask is then placed on a raised slant ing grooved board and from time to time water is poured on the contents until there emerges it a brownish ll 11 quid liquid which is collected in nn an fron i put it t nril bolted boiled over a are with the hi hilaa lt taa 1 l grease until the soap maker deems it finished the alre IA 1 then allowed to go out and the contents of the pot Is left to chill to a solid mass after which it la is cut into bars |