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  • Welcome to Story Handmade Soap Farm

    Story Handmade Soap Farm brings you natural handmade soap bars to awaken your senses, and calm your spirit! Welcome to purchase some of our products. You can order online or send us an e-mail if you have any questions!

  • Raw Materials for SALE

    We sell raw materials use for making soap. Visit our store now!

  • Making Breast Milk Soap

    Go ahead and "baby your baby" without the fear of harsh chemicals and synthetic fragrances. You'll never find mineral oil, petroleum jelly or sodium lauryl sulfate in breast milk soap. Safe, natural and effective!

  • Custom Made Soap

    Each custom-made soap is made individually with your selection of a shape and ingredients. Design a soap based on your own special skin needs and desires.

  • Fancy Soap Membership Purchase any hand made soap qualified to join Fancy Soap membership additional RM15 only.
  • Where you can find us? Now, except Story Handmade Soap Farm, you also can find us at selected organic shop or pharmacy.
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Soap History

Posted by Story Handmade Soap Farm On 10:05


Soap making history goes back many millennia. The most basic soap making supplies were those taken from animals and from nature: many people made soap using animal fat and tree ash. There's debate about who invented soap, but the first evidence has been linked to Mesopotamian civilization.

Back before soap was commonly used, the Geeks used a combination of lye and ashes to clean pots and to clean the statues of their gods. Romans used goat's milk as the basis for their soap. They used goat's tallow and beech tree ash to make both hard and soft forms of soap.

One of the first soap plants was in Marseilles because its soil was great for olive trees and vegetable sodas. As time went on, the oil and soda was imported from Spain and Italy. Because of this, soap factories sprung up in both countries. France took on the industry in the twelfth or thirteenth century, and England soon followed suit. French soap was mainly made of olive oil and English soap was made from a variety of ingredients.

The soap industry was expanded or revolutionized when Nicholas Le Blanc developed an inexpensive method to extract soda from salt. Further discoveries and inventions helped making soap easier and expanded its availability and popularity. In 1811, Eugene-Michel Chevreul was the first to determine the exact amount of fat that was necessary to make soap. Before this, people had simply guessed the amount of fat to use. With each new discovery, the industry expanded, as did the type of soap and soap making supplies.

Many of the soaps marketed today are closer to detergents than to soaps because they lather more than soap does. In 1938, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was passed, which left soap more or less unregulated, compared to other products.

Nowadays, there are tons of soaps on the market. In their homes, people enjoy everything from organic soap making and natural soap making to making luxurious soaps with fancy ingredients and soap making molds.