Ordinary laundry soap, what could be surprising about it? Nevertheless, we are sure that some facts about the most ordinary soap “Laundry” will certainly surprise you, and maybe even shock you! And most importantly, in a crisis and tense situation in the country, laundry soap can significantly save your budget! So, 15 amazing and little-known facts about the most ordinary laundry soap.
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The best antiseptic is... Laundry soap.
If you fell and tore the skin on your knee, you were bitten by a neighbor’s dog, or even worse, the neighbor herself, then before running to the doctor and getting stitches, wash the wound with “laundry” soap. Doctors have long known about its antiseptic properties and, in the absence of medications, always advise treating the wound with “laundry” soap. It turns out that in terms of its antiseptic and medical properties, it is not inferior to many medications.
Cooking secrets.
Many experienced chefs secretly use the fastest marinade - “laundry soap”. Especially if you doubt the freshness of the meat. Most often, “laundry” soap is used for poultry. Before cooking chicken or chicken legs, they must be washed with laundry soap - it kills germs and eliminates unpleasant odors and quickly softens chicken meat. After which you just need to wash the meat thoroughly, as you usually wash your hands and that’s it.
Thick hair and no dandruff.
Laundry soap can provide worthy competition to fashionable, expensive shampoos and anti-dandruff shampoos. It is enough to wash your hair with laundry soap twice a week, and after a few weeks the effect will amaze you, not to mention the savings. For thick and long hair women's hair The following procedure is recommended (if, of course, you want to have thick, luxurious hair below your butt, and not three hairs): after washing your hair the first time - with shampoo (to wash away the main dirt), the second time - with laundry soap. In just a few months, thick, luxurious hair!
True, so that the scalp does not become too dry after washing, you still need to rinse your hair with an acidic solution based on vinegar or lemon juice.
Laundry soap - Doctor Aibolit!
If your child constantly has scraped elbows and knees, then laundry soap is your savior. It can easily relieve even serious inflammation on the leg or arms.
Laundry soap has long been successfully used to treat the most serious inflammatory processes (even incipient gangrene). The fact is that, unlike antimicrobial soaps, laundry soap does not kill, but restores the favorable microflora of the skin.
Laundry soap - the best cosmetologist?
- Some women successfully use laundry soap for peeling. You need to apply foam from laundry soap to damp skin and wipe your face along the massage lines with a cotton swab moistened with calcium chloride. The skin is cleansed very well. The face after such procedures looks very good and most importantly, you do not need to spend a lot on salon acid peels.
- In addition, it is recommended to wash your face with laundry soap - at least twice a week - so that your skin always looks young. After washing, you need to lubricate the skin with ordinary baby cream. Moreover, the effect of such washings, as those who have tried it say, is better than using expensive professional cosmetics.
- Washing the skin in a steam room with a birch broom soaked in a solution of laundry soap cleanses the skin very well: the skin is wonderfully cleansed and then seems to glow from the inside, better than any peeling!
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Laundry soap - to help gynecologists?
Some gynecological diseases are even successfully treated with laundry soap. We will not tell you the details so as not to provoke self-medication. But, we note that thrush and prickly heat can be successfully treated with laundry soap. It is good for washing, it kills all bacteria and fungus such as thrush. Let's also say that in some maternity hospitals it is used for cleaning the floors in departments where newborns are located, as a successful means of disinfection, and not for savings.
Soap instead of gloves!
Surgeons, especially military surgeons and surgeons from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, know about the amazing ability of laundry soap to replace surgical gloves (if you lather it on your hands and leave it to dry) - surgeons say that then, even with a cut during surgery, the risk of infection is minimal.
Laundry soap against a runny nose?
Traditional medicine advises treating an incipient runny nose with household soap. You need to make a soap solution, dip a cotton swab in it and treat your sinuses. Then (although it will sting a little at first) your nose will never be stuffy, and after 2-3 such treatments you will forget about the cold all summer long.
Laundry soap against fungus.
Laundry soap also successfully treats fungal diseases of the feet. It is advised to thoroughly wash the affected areas of the skin with soap and a brush, and then treat the surface of the skin with ordinary iodine.
Laundry soap and depilation.
After depilation, to avoid skin redness and irritation in sensitive areas, laundry soap is also often used. You just need to lather yourself once and there will be no irritation.
Laundry soap - against acne.
Laundry soap is a successful remedy for acne. You need to cut the laundry soap into a bowl, add water and beat it with a shaving brush or brush into a foam. Now take 1 tbsp. l. the resulting foam, 1 tsp. “extra” salt and stir. Apply this mixture to a well-washed face. We warn you right away - it will sting a lot, but this just means that the healing process is underway. Keep the mask on for half an hour. Dry salt will remain on your face, brush it off and wash your face first with hot water and then cold water. This procedure should be done 2-3 times a day for 2-3 weeks.
Laundry soap - a remedy for boils
Remedy for boils. Mix grated onion, laundry soap and sugar in equal parts. Apply this ointment to the abscess and bandage it. This should be done at night, in the morning you will see that the wound has completely cleared.
Laundry soap - against corns.
For cracked heels and corns, make a 2-liter bath hot water, 1 teaspoon of soda and 1 tablespoon of shaved laundry soap.
Laundry soap against burns.
If you wash the burn area with laundry soap and let it dry, not only will there be no blisters from the burn, but there will also be no redness left!
1. Archaeologists have established that already 6 thousand years ago there was an established production of soap from alkaline salt, plants, ash, and animal fats. So, Scythian women ground cypress and cedar wood into powder, adding water and incense to it. The resulting ointment was rubbed on the body, the skin exuded an aroma, and after removing the ointment it became clean and well-groomed.
2. During the archaeological excavations of Pompeii, soap factories were discovered. Soap at that time was semi-liquid. They not only washed themselves with it, but also dyed their hair yellow, pink and red. Soap has long been a luxury item and was valued along with expensive medicines and potions. But even wealthy people could not afford to wash their clothes. For this, various clays and plants (for example, soap root) were used. Laundry was a difficult task and was often done by men.
3. In the ancient world, soap was made from goat or bovine fat mixed with beech ash. It came in three varieties: hard, soft and liquid. They could not only wash their face, but also dye their hair yellow, pink or red.
4. Soap was originally used by the Celts and ancient Romans mainly as a hair pomade and as a cure for skin conditions.
5. The Arabs made soap from vegetable oils such as olive oil and some aromatic oils such as thyme oil. Since the beginning of the 7th century, soap has been produced in Nablus (Palestine), Kufa (Iraq) and Basra (Iraq). Soap as we know it today is a descendant of historical Arabian soaps. Arabian Soap was aromatic and colorful, some of the soaps were liquid and others were solid, there was also a special soap for shaving. This cute sold for 3 dirhams (0.3 dinars) in 981 AD. Al-Razi's manuscript contains recipes for making soap.
6. At the time of Homer, soap was not yet known. The ancient Greeks cleansed the body with sand - especially fine sand, brought from the banks of the Nile. The ancient Egyptians washed their faces with a paste made from beeswax, soluble in water. For a long time, wood ash and soda were used for washing. The Phoenicians made soap from goat fat and beech ash, and it was this recipe that the Romans adopted.
7. The first trademarks of soap can be considered images of lilies, fir cones and crescents on scented balls, which knights and merchants brought from Venice in the 15th-16th centuries.
8. In the Middle Ages, soap was worth its weight in gold and was completely inaccessible to most people. Thus, Queen Isabella of Castile of Spain admitted that she used soap only twice in her life: at birth and on the eve of her wedding.
9. In the 14th century in England, the rules of the Soap Guild forbade soap makers to spend the night under the same roof with ordinary people - this profession was so shrouded in mystery!
10. The English king Henry IV of the Lancaster dynasty founded a special order in 1399. Each new member received the privilege of washing with soap.
11. In 1636, the Star Chamber (the Highest Royal Court of England) issued a decree according to which the construction of soap factories was prohibited at a distance of less than 1 mile from London and Bristol. The consequences of this decree were disastrous. So soap production in Bristol was reduced to 600 tons per year. By comparison, the Westminster Soap Society produced 5,000 tons per year.
12. Industrial production of soap was first started by the French in the 9th century. Marcel was the main supplier of soap to different countries. Italy was the first to produce solid soap in 1424.
13. The morning of the French king Louis XIV began with a very short wash. They brought him a large bowl with water splashing at the bottom. The king moistened his fingertips and lightly touched his eyelids with them. This was the end of the procedure - washing, let alone completely lathering, was not customary in those days.
14. In the second half of the 17th century, a royal decree was issued in France allowing soap to be made only in the summer and only from ash and olive oil.
15. In Rus', soap was made both in workshops and at home. Beef, lamb, and lard were used to make soap. An old saying has survived to this day: “There was lard, but there was soap.” Added for softness vegetable oils, for example, flaxseed. Entire villages were engaged in the “potash trade”—that’s what soap making was called in those days.
16. In Russia, soap began to be made during the time of Peter I, but until the mid-19th century it was used only by the nobility. The peasants washed and washed with lye - wood ash was poured with boiling water and steamed in the stove, or instead of soap they used potatoes, “not fully cooked, but more boiled than raw.”
17. Nicolas Leblanc (1742-1806) was the first to discover the method of modern mass production of soap - a method of CHEMICALLY producing a strong alkaline solution. Before this, the alkaline solution was extracted from ash using a complex method.
18. In 1841 in Mexico, soap was in such short supply and was so expensive that it served as money.
19. Some types of soap are used to prepare napalm-type explosives.
20. Scientists from the University of Michigan, who conducted their own research, proved that antibacterial soap protects against infections in the same way as regular soap.
The conclusion was made based on the study of a trivial procedure - washing dirty hands. As it turns out, after using antibacterial soap, the same amount of bacteria remains on your hands as after using traditional soap.
For a long time, liquid soap was used only as a means for washing dishes and washing clothes. Now the situation has changed, however, debates on which type of soap is better - liquid or solid - are still ongoing. “Evening Moscow” will not campaign for this or that type of soap, but will simply recall ten little-known facts from the history of this important and necessary product.
1. The history of soap is still full of blank spots. According to one version, the soap itself, as well as English word soap comes from the name of the ancient Roman mountain Sapo, where the carcasses of sacrificial animals were burned. Animal fat mixed with the ashes of fires, all of which flowed into the river, where women washed clothes. The Romans noticed that this mixture foamed the water in the Tiber and made washing clothes much easier.
2. In 1880, Procter & Gamble introduced new brand white soap. This soap immediately became popular among Americans due to the fact that it did not sink in water. The reason for this was initially a simple technological error in production - a foreign impurity got into the soap mixture.
3. The most expensive soap produced worldwide by Plank. This soap is called “Cor” and costs more than a thousand dollars per kilogram. It contains sericin - a silk glue that is obtained from fresh silk fibers, chitosan from crab shells, several types of different collagens and even silver. Soap for the rich, of course, will not add beauty to the face and body, but how prestigious!
4. In the Middle Ages, soap was literally worth its weight in gold and was completely inaccessible to most people. Including crowned persons. Thus, Queen Isabella of Castile of Spain admitted that she used soap only twice in her life: at birth and on the eve of her wedding. We will not comment...
5. In the 14th century in England, the Soap Guild ruled - there was such a thing! - soap makers were forbidden to spend the night under the same roof with ordinary people. The reason is not to give away the “military” secret of soap making. Can you imagine how much this profession was shrouded in secrecy?
6. But in Russia they started making soap during the time of Peter I, but until the middle of the 19th century only noble people used it. The peasants washed and washed with lye - wood ash was poured with boiling water and steamed in the stove.
7. English pensioner Carol Vaughn has been collecting soap since 1991. Its collection contains samples from almost all countries of the world. And at the moment, Carol has more than 5,000 pieces of a wide variety of soap!
8. Soap, like cheese and wine, must also ripen. And with age, oddly enough, soap also gets better. “Old” soap is gentler, more foamy, and less irritating to the skin.
9. In the ancient world, soap was made from goat or bovine fat mixed with beech ash. It came in three varieties: hard, soft and liquid. They could not only wash their face, but also dye their hair yellow, pink or red.
10. In Europe and the USA, the continuous process of soap making appeared in the late 1930s, along with the continuous process of hydrolysis (breaking down) of fats with water and steam high pressure in soap towers.
“Exchange an awl for soap”, “Soap opera”, “I’ll soap my neck!”... how many times have we heard or used these expressions ourselves. Where did they come from? And what does soap have to do with it? What else is interesting about such a familiar subject?
How did the expression “exchange an awl for soap” come about? Why such a personal barter?
In order to easily and accurately pierce the skin with an awl, in the old days you had to soap it, because... it was not made of stainless steel and therefore, as a rule, it was a little rusty, and therefore rough. Therefore, changing an awl for soap means exchanging one necessary thing for another, i.e. make a meaningless transaction: you can’t work anyway.
The expression “soap your neck” in Russian means to scold, beat, or punish someone. IN Japanese- this means admitting that you were wrong and being ready to atone for it at the cost of your life.
In the 1930s, serial programs with simple tear-jerking stories appeared on American radio. They were sponsored by soap manufacturers and other detergents, since the main audience for these programs were housewives. Therefore, the expression “soap opera” was assigned to radio and subsequently television series.
English pensioner Carol Vaughn has been collecting soap since 1991. Its collection contains samples from almost all countries of the world. And at the moment, Carol has more than 5,000 pieces of a wide variety of soap!
The most expensive soap in the world is COR SILVER SOAP - 12-14 dollars for 10 grams, 125 dollars for 120 grams. (about 4 thousand rubles for a standard bar), this simple little bar of soap costs a lot of money because of the ingredients it contains - Cor soap contains silver and four types of collagen, including marine collagen from France.
Soap, like cheese and wine, must also ripen. And with age, oddly enough, soap also gets better. “Old” soap is gentler, more foamy, and less irritating to the skin.
The soap we know and love today is a descendant of ancient Arabic soap. Arabic soap was made colored and scented, some of the soap was produced in liquid form. There was also a special shaving soap. This shaving soap was sold for 3 dirhams (0.3 dinars) in 981 AD. The Persian chemist Al-Razi wrote an entire manuscript containing recipes from the ancient world. This ancient manuscript was discovered in the 13th century, and contains detailed recipes for ancient soap, such as this one: take sesame oil, mix with lye, water and lime juice, and cook over a fire.
Archaeologists have established that already 6 thousand years ago there was an established production of soap from alkaline salt, plants, ash, and animal fats. So, Scythian women ground cypress and cedar wood into powder, adding water and incense to it. The resulting ointment was rubbed on the body, the skin exuded an aroma, and after removing the ointment it became clean and well-groomed.
In the ancient world, soap was made from goat or bovine fat mixed with beech ash. It came in three varieties: hard, soft and liquid. They could not only wash their face, but also dye their hair yellow, pink or red.
In the Middle Ages, soap was worth its weight in gold and was completely inaccessible to most people. Thus, Queen Isabella of Castile of Spain admitted that she used soap only twice in her life: at birth and on the eve of her wedding.
In the 14th century in England, the rules of the Soap Guild forbade soap makers to spend the night under the same roof with ordinary people - this profession was so shrouded in mystery!
The first wet baby wipes appeared in the 70s of the last century. True, they were very different from today's care products: the texture resembled ordinary paper ones, so they were fragile and dried out too quickly.
The morning of the French King Louis XIV began with a very short wash. They brought him a large bowl with water splashing at the bottom. The king moistened his fingertips and lightly touched his eyelids with them. This was the end of the procedure - it was not customary to wash completely in those days.
The English king Henry IV of the Lancaster dynasty founded a special order in 1399. Each new member received the privilege of washing with soap.
With the help of laundry soap you can stop the beginning of barley. This is what people call infectious inflammation of the eye cornea. This should be done at the stage of development of the problem when the eye is just beginning to bother. You need to lather your index finger with laundry soap and carefully, moving from your temple to the tip of your nose, rinse your eye, then rinse it generously with water. In most cases, this simple procedure prevents further development infections. To treat barley, you need to use Soviet-style laundry soap - a bar Brown. Laundry soap varieties offered by manufacturers today white They are not suitable for the described purpose because they have a slightly different composition.
Often we simply throw small remnants into the trash bin. If left to dry, the soap residue will turn into functional tailor's chalk. They leave clear lines, which, unlike the lines left by ordinary chalk, are easily washed off later. Using remnants of different colors, you can accumulate a whole
kit.
A bar of soap can give new life old lightning. If the zipper begins to slide poorly, do not rush to take the boot or item of clothing to the studio to replace it. It is enough to rub the zipper thoroughly along the entire length with dry soap and leave for a while. Then wipe dry with a soft cloth and try to fasten the zipper again. The effect will pleasantly surprise you.
