Latest / Privycast / Ep. 61 Ash and Fat: A Brief History of Soap

Transcript

Ep. 61 Ash and Fat: A Brief History of Soap · Privycast

0:01
>> Speaker A: I have drank drinks with a
0:03
higher viscosity than what's coming out of the
0:06
gym. Shower soap tap.
0:13
Welcome back to privy. Privy
0:16
is a podcast about
0:18
bathrooms recorded this
0:21
week again from my home bathroom.
0:24
I'm your host, hunter hoover, and I
0:27
love bathrooms. Thank you so much for being here
0:30
to start the show. I want to just share a
0:32
brief story here, and it's going to
0:35
introduce us to what we're going to do this
0:38
week. But I took a shower at the gym
0:40
this week. Normally, uh, my
0:43
gymming routine, I'm able to go to the
0:46
gym, get full randy,
0:49
uh, and then just return home to my
0:52
family and kind of stand and exist in
0:55
filth until I shower the
0:57
following morning. I know it is what it
1:00
is. It's the system I'm on, and that's okay.
1:05
But the circumstances on this one is
1:08
I had to use the gym, uh, before I went to
1:11
work this day because I knew I was going
1:14
to have to jet to
1:17
my other job in the evening. And so
1:20
I knew I wasn't going to be able to do the gym after work. And
1:22
so I went to gym before work, and I'm sitting here going,
1:25
I can kind of exist in
1:29
gym sweat for
1:33
two to 3 hours of awake time. After the
1:36
gym, it's more like four. Uh, but
1:40
I was not thinking that I was going to be able to do
1:42
a full work day
1:45
and a half after I go to work at my first
1:48
job, then going to my second job. I thought
1:51
that certainly I would be far too
1:54
randy to exist, um, for
1:57
that long without a shower.
1:59
So, um, I gymed hard, and then I
2:02
did what needed to happen. I used the gym
2:05
shower, and using the gym
2:08
shower is always something special. We talked
2:11
in shower etiquette, some of this stuff, but,
2:14
man, there's some blokes that are
2:17
just getting some foul mess in the
2:20
shower, and I'm
2:23
not bringing probably proper
2:26
foot attire for this shower situation.
2:28
So I'm just firmly
2:31
planting my bare hoofies
2:34
straight into the just
2:37
pool of cess
2:40
that is at the bottom of the men's room shower.
2:43
But sometimes
2:46
that's what you have to do. I'm not transporting flip
2:49
flops and sandals around. I don't have
2:52
that in me at this point. Uh,
2:56
but I will say this. I always bring
2:59
my own soap. I have my own soap and
3:01
shampoo and stuff. Uh, and I
3:04
grabbed that and I had it ready for use.
3:07
But, like me being cheap, I get all set
3:10
up in the bathroom, man. I
3:13
am a creature of particular
3:15
habits. When I'm setting up in the gym
3:18
shower, it takes me a hot minute
3:21
because I take my underpants
3:24
and my shirt for when I am done to
3:27
the shower area to hang up. And I have it hung up
3:29
in stages. So that way it's in order
3:32
of order that I will need it when I get out of the
3:35
shower. And then in the shower,
3:38
you've got it laid out just so that way everything can go
3:41
as quickly as possible. Because again, you don't
3:43
want your hoofies sitting in the cess too
3:46
long. And they're not very big showers. It's
3:49
like if you bend over, sometimes your butt hits the wall and
3:52
you're like, oh, gosh, no. But
3:55
I got my soap set up on the floor of the
3:57
shower there. And me being cheap, I
4:00
see that they have the
4:03
complimentary soap dispenser. Uh,
4:06
and I decide, you know what? I'm going to save
4:08
my soap and I'm going to go for the soap they have on
4:11
tap here at the gym. And so I'm just like,
4:14
just getting that soap.
4:17
And I have drank
4:20
drinks with a higher viscosity
4:23
than what's coming out of the gym shower soap
4:25
tap. Like, good lord.
4:28
It hit my rag and just
4:31
disappeared into oblivion.
4:34
Instantly vaporized straight
4:37
down the drain. The thinnest soap in the
4:40
universe at the gym. So I
4:43
used my own. Uh, and this
4:46
is going to bring us into the
4:49
topic this week and something that's been at the back of
4:51
my brain for a while to talk about on the
4:54
show. It's kind of
4:57
related to the rotation
5:00
of questions that we ask everyone. We ask all our
5:02
guests. And so maybe we should have done this
5:05
work of figuring out the backstory
5:08
of what is in many ways a mainstay of most
5:11
bathrooms. But this week
5:14
on the pod, we're discussing soap
5:17
and more importantly, the history of
5:20
soap. Where'd it come from? It gets you
5:22
clean. It goes
5:25
where no man should ever go or
5:28
probably will ever go before. I don't know, but it
5:31
does a lot of heavy lifting. Soap.
5:34
But
5:36
how did we get this stuff and
5:39
where did it come from? So
5:43
I perused the interwebs,
5:46
and the earliest mentions of
5:49
soap come from about 2800 BC,
5:52
Babylon. Now, that's about 5000 years
5:55
ago, which is quite a long time ago. And this
5:58
is both the earliest record
6:01
of soap being made and
6:03
probably about the time where everyone quit smelling
6:06
like dog poop. Uh,
6:10
I'm trying to imagine. So
6:13
I work with people, and sometimes people need to
6:16
shower more than they do. And that's not a judgment
6:19
thing. It's just a hygienic
6:22
posit that I'm putting forth as a person who tries to
6:25
shower more than he should. And
6:28
the earliest mentions of this,
6:32
if they didn't have soap before here, you're just wetting,
6:35
and when you're just wetting, you're just
6:38
giving bacteria a,
6:40
uh, flipping, uh, dance
6:43
club to just start making more bacterial
6:46
buddies. But
6:49
this early babylonian soap, it
6:52
Defo did not look like what we squirt
6:55
out of the hand dispensers, or in my case, the
6:58
shower dispenser, uh, onto
7:01
our hands and into our heads.
7:05
Not into our heads. Don't squirt soap into your
7:07
head in any way. But it didn't look like that. It is
7:10
guessed that, uh,
7:14
this, okay, this soap was probably
7:16
developed on accident. And what they
7:19
guess happened here is some
7:22
Babylonian bloke,
7:24
we'll call him Chad, because one of the best jokes
7:27
in the bible, so. Bible joke.
7:30
Um, not even a bible joke, but there's this character called
7:33
Nebuchadnezzar. But his name sucks to
7:35
spell. And so if you ever want
7:38
to remember how to spell Nebuchadnezzar,
7:41
it's Nebuchadnezzar. Once
7:44
you know that, you just call him old Nebu or Big
7:47
Chad. So you got big Chad, and he's
7:50
just squatting over the know, cooking his
7:53
meat. And as the fire burned
7:56
down, the ash in the bottom would
7:59
have settled. And for me, I
8:01
always stir that ash up and it gets all up on
8:04
my hut dog. And you're just
8:07
like, trying to blow that ash off your
8:10
hut dog, but it
8:12
settles. And then animal fats from
8:15
cooked meat, cooked meat
8:17
drip onto the ash. When
8:20
this was left to harden, this new
8:23
fatty ash fat, uh, ash,
8:26
get it? Because of the ash
8:29
in the thing. But when this was left to
8:32
harden, it formed a kind of waxy
8:35
looking substance. Perhaps then
8:38
at this time, it also could have been raining. And
8:41
they noticed a sudsy look as the
8:43
water interacted with the fat and the ash,
8:46
and they tried to then use it. Um,
8:49
but we're going to see
8:51
that the primary use of this new
8:54
soap was not for them. That's
8:57
why I say they probably still smelled like
9:00
a dog dookie out here. Who knows? But what
9:03
we do know was that from
9:05
this soap, uh, was born, and they began to make
9:08
it. It probably wasn't even for washing
9:11
people. So they probably just, again,
9:14
continued to smell like ancient Mediterranean
9:17
dumpster. But the primary use of
9:19
this new soap, which they began adding
9:22
salts and other oils to, uh,
9:25
in order to change the quality.
9:28
It was primarily used for cleaning,
9:31
cooking and medical instruments, or
9:35
to try and disinfect surfaces and
9:37
dishes. Got to get a big slurp.
9:43
Oh, yeah, you really hear
9:46
the Abdullam ablam
9:49
gata just cranking that water down your
9:51
gullet. Um, but then
9:55
what ancient Babylon came up with,
9:58
ancient Egypt also used. We learned that
10:01
the ancient Egyptians used animal fats
10:04
and oils mixed with salts and ash
10:07
to form cleaning products. And we
10:09
learned from none other than our favorite medical
10:12
papyrus, the Ebers medical papyrus.
10:15
If you want to know more on that, go check out our episode on,
10:18
like, rub some poop on it. But,
10:20
yeah, you've been warned. Um, that
10:23
episode contains material, uh,
10:26
describing ways that people used to use
10:29
poop. And one of them was to rub it onto
10:32
and into your human body.
10:34
You've been warned. So soap is a thing
10:37
primarily made with animal fats
10:40
and ash or salts. But it
10:43
wasn't until the Romans that,
10:46
according to the Romans, the Romans
10:48
began to call soap soap
10:51
pliny the Elder, which, in case you
10:54
didn't know, Pliny the Elder is an
10:57
excellent dungeons and dragons name, if it weren't already
11:00
just a real person. Can you believe
11:03
that Pliny the elder is a real person?
11:07
It's true. And
11:09
Pliny wrote in his
11:11
historian Naturalis about
11:14
Sappo, which he says was
11:17
the first time the word was used. It was called
11:20
sappo, roughly translated, and
11:23
big leap here, uh, it means soap.
11:25
Now, Sapo was a name of a
11:28
mountain in Rome. And
11:31
here's the deal. Pliny,
11:34
if I may, Pliny,
11:37
it wasn't probably real.
11:43
And if it was, archaeology has
11:46
not been able to locate this
11:49
mountain in the degree to which Pliny describes
11:52
it. And also, uh,
11:55
archaeology has just proven Pliny mega
11:57
wrong, because in old Pliny's account
12:00
of the invention and naming
12:03
of soap, it was on
12:06
the slopes of Mount Sappo.
12:09
So Mount Sappo was a place in his
12:12
retelling where people would go to offer
12:15
animal sacrifices. Now, I
12:18
grew up, uh, in a religious system and in a culture
12:20
that didn't do animal sacrifices,
12:23
but it was talked about in the context of
12:26
scripture, in the Bible and stuff. And so I
12:29
take for granted that this was a
12:31
facet. Um, but essentially,
12:34
if animal sacrifices, there used to be this
12:37
belief that cultures would need to
12:40
appease a God or gods, and to
12:43
do so, you would offer sacrifice
12:45
and to either make things right or whatever.
12:48
And so in the story, Mount Sappo would have
12:51
been the hill on which they did this. They would
12:54
have gone up to the summit of Mount
12:57
Sappo to offer these sacrifices.
13:00
This act was a pretty common thing to go up on a mountain or up on
13:03
a high place to do this, the sacrifices
13:06
and the mixing of, you guessed it,
13:09
ash and animal fats was drained off,
13:11
settled into clay beds where nearby people
13:14
would clean their clothes. And they noticed that
13:17
things in this area got a little cleaner.
13:20
So here's the deal. This
13:22
is Pliny's version, uh,
13:26
of this is full of hot air,
13:29
because first, most Romans took the meat
13:32
and fat of the animals for themselves
13:34
and burned the portions that were not
13:37
usable. So as a result, this
13:40
would have produced little to no
13:42
tallow or animal fat byproduct,
13:45
and as a further result, very little
13:47
soap. Also, as I noted, Mount
13:51
Sappo, very likely not even real.
13:53
And third nail in this coffin for you
13:56
there. Pliny. Archaeology has
13:59
shown that this.
14:01
If Rome was trying to claim credit
14:04
for this, that Defoe took credit for
14:07
something that the Babylonians were using and had
14:10
come up with also
14:13
Sappo. The place in Rome
14:16
is not even where the word soap actually
14:19
comes from. It's true, however,
14:22
the Romans did use soap primarily for
14:25
cleaning instruments and dishes, much like their
14:28
egyptian and babylonian predecessors.
14:31
They may have even tried to use some
14:34
soap on that ye oldie communal
14:36
wiping wand that Dave so
14:39
graciously yoinked down
14:42
his backside and then passed off to the next
14:45
guy. You know, shared wiping sticks
14:48
probably didn't lend to health and well being, and that's all you need to
14:51
know. The Romans also
14:54
began using an extra compound in their soap
14:57
urine. We discussed that already,
15:00
and again,
15:03
it's weird. The term actually has.
15:06
The term soap actually has germanic
15:09
or celtic origins
15:12
from the word saipo or sipo.
15:14
The Celts would mix plant ash and animal
15:17
fat together for the saves
15:20
and to clean things with these savs.
15:23
As time moved into the middle and dark
15:26
ages, there was this pendulum swing away
15:28
from the cleanliness practices found in antiquity.
15:31
And as such things got both
15:34
stinky and dirty. Soap would
15:37
be used primarily for dishes and instruments
15:40
as a way to clean, and sometimes to be
15:43
used in medicine for cleaning wounds.
15:46
However, this, coupled
15:49
with the fact that at the time, uh,
15:51
animal fats were costly and other plant
15:54
fats could not be found in some parts of the world.
15:57
As such, soap making became somewhat of
16:00
a trade, with there being monopoly on soaps
16:03
in certain areas. At one point
16:06
in Europe, there were so many trees
16:09
harvested for the production of
16:11
ash for the soaps, that the
16:14
following winter, they had chopped down and burned
16:17
so many trees out of season that
16:20
the area, the people in this area, almost
16:23
froze to death. But at least their
16:26
hands and bowls were super clean.
16:30
Can you imagine being an archaeologist who has to give
16:33
that report? What's the cause of death?
16:36
Uh, they froze to death, but,
16:39
my goodness, their bowls were. Know,
16:43
soap making has its start in Italy, France,
16:46
and Spain. Uh, note that these are where
16:48
those natural like plant with
16:51
fatty oil resources, um, are
16:54
more plentiful by way of lots of oil producing
16:57
plants. Again, for most, making
16:59
your soap was one of the many household chores
17:02
of the early thousands. Into the 16
17:05
and 17 hundreds, the traditional
17:08
practices of animal or plant fats mixed with ash
17:11
and salt were used. You'd wake
17:14
up for the day, and on the list of
17:17
chores would be to render ash and mix
17:19
with rendered animal and
17:22
plant fats to make soap for your household
17:25
use. If it ain't broke, don't fix
17:28
it. You know what I'm saying? Like, if that
17:31
clean stuff, uh,
17:33
why change it? And the answer is,
17:37
sometimes what isn't broke is worth making
17:40
better. And that's just what french chemist
17:42
Nicholas Leblanc did.
17:45
Nicholas Leblanc was the son of a director
17:48
of an ironworks company, and he
17:50
was educated, um, under.
17:53
He received medical education, and about
17:56
1780, he became a private
17:58
surgeon. And five years prior to this, he
18:01
was offered a prize for the process
18:04
to convert salt into
18:07
soda ash. Extracted at the time
18:10
by crude methods from wood or
18:13
seaweed ash. Soda ash was used
18:15
again in making, in our purposes today,
18:18
soap. And so if those
18:21
soap industries and others that relied on this
18:23
ash were to expand, a cheaper
18:26
process was needed. So in
18:29
LeBlanc's process, salt was
18:32
treated with sulfuric acid. Here we
18:34
are. Chemistry lesson again this week.
18:37
Um, they're going to start calling me pig
18:40
sty, the chemist dude. To
18:43
obtain. So they mix salt with sulfuric
18:46
acid. Son
18:49
of a gun. To obtain salt cake, which is
18:52
sodium sulfate. This salt
18:54
cake, which could be an excellent
18:57
thing to call somebody after they've eaten
19:00
any amount of taco bell salt cake.
19:03
It's roasted with limestone or chalk and
19:06
coal to produce black ash,
19:09
which consisted primarily of
19:11
sodium carbonate and calcium sulfite.
19:14
The sodium carbonate was dissolved in water and then
19:17
later crystallized. This
19:19
process was simple, cheap, and
19:22
direct. The trifecta of
19:25
money making goodness. But the French
19:28
Revolution had begun.
19:31
So Leblanc completes his experiments in
19:34
the 1790s, and he never received the
19:37
prize. Uh, and the National
19:40
assembly awarded him a 15 year patent,
19:43
but confiscated the patent and the
19:45
factory with barely
19:48
any compensation. So
19:50
Napoleon returned the factory
19:54
in about 1800. But Leblanc was never
19:57
able to raise enough money to reopen it. And
19:59
he, uh, took his own life years
20:02
later. But his development of
20:05
soda ash, though he was never
20:07
properly awarded or recognized
20:10
in his time for it. This
20:13
development would go on to change the way
20:16
that we make soap. What once
20:19
relied on right location and
20:21
resources and burning wood could now
20:24
be made from salt and a simple chemical
20:27
reaction. And as such, the
20:30
cost to make soap decreased
20:33
and the demand of soap
20:36
increased. And if you're an economist,
20:39
you know that that means one thing. You're
20:42
fixing to make yourself some money.
20:45
Upon its commercial success, soap
20:48
was viewed as a luxury item and heavily
20:51
taxed. However, as folks began
20:54
to take a new look at cleanliness in the 18
20:57
hundreds, it began to be more widely viewed
21:00
as a hygiene item.
21:03
Can you imagine prior to that,
21:05
being viewed as some fancy lad,
21:08
bourgeoisie boy, because you use
21:10
soap like, for goodness sakes,
21:13
in these early days of like, from now
21:16
on, tell yourself
21:19
you're fancy and just soap up, kids.
21:22
Just lather it right up.
21:25
But in these days of soap production, a
21:28
household name came into being.
21:31
A, uh, lad by the name of William Proctor. And
21:34
who was a local candle maker. And
21:37
his friend, or at least business partner, James
21:39
Gamble, a soap maker, went into business
21:42
together to form what was called Procter
21:45
gamble, or p g.
21:48
The taxes that I mentioned began to be levied on
21:51
the sale of soap. Were so significant
21:54
at the time that the people began to lock up
21:57
their soap for fear of it being stolen.
21:59
It's estimated taxes generated from
22:02
soap during those days are an
22:05
equivalent amount to the taxes
22:07
rendered from liquor tax today.
22:11
As procter and gamble, these local household
22:13
names began to develop. And into the
22:15
1850s, these advancements would
22:18
bring soap to be one of America's leading
22:21
industries. Factories in the mass production
22:24
assembly line grew and developed and business
22:27
was booming. And at the
22:29
end, uh, so you have these procter and
22:32
gamble lads at the end of the 18
22:35
hundreds. A few years after them, America con
22:38
artist, gangster and crime boss Jefferson
22:41
Randolph Smith earned the nickname
22:44
Soapy after cleaning up
22:47
big time with his prize soap cell.
22:49
Con. It was a simple crime,
22:52
and it was designed to
22:54
swindle vulnerable passersby by.
22:57
By wrapping bars of soaps in
23:00
notes of, uh, varying denominations, covering them with plain
23:03
paper, depending, to mix them in with
23:05
bars devoid of any money.
23:08
And then selling off these ladder bars at an inflated
23:11
price. While maintaining the facade that some of the
23:13
packages contain money. So he essentially
23:16
was trying to put like money inside the soap bars to
23:19
convince people to buy them and scamming them all the
23:22
same. In reality, it was the only member of
23:25
Smith's notorious soap gang, strategically planted in the
23:28
crowd to masquerade as honest, ordinary folks
23:31
who received the money for purpose of diminishing
23:33
potential suspicion. It's a classic
23:36
plant. He's got his cronies, and
23:39
they're the ones that are walking away with the soap filled with cash
23:42
to get other people to spend astronomical
23:45
amounts of money on these bars of
23:48
soap in order to hopefully get some sort of
23:51
willy Wonka golden $40
23:53
bill inside their soap bar. Like, come
23:56
on. Frankly, yeah. Unfortunately,
23:59
his reputation grew on his crimes became
24:02
more violent. Um, but
24:05
if soapy Randolph Smith had
24:07
just kept to this soap scam that's
24:10
on these people, you don't
24:13
do a game on the street.
24:16
That's just. Jeez. As
24:19
the turn of the century happened into the 19
24:22
hundreds, uh, World War I brought a
24:25
shortage of access to animal and plant
24:27
fats, primarily due to the
24:30
effects of war on the land, as well as
24:33
people's ability to obtain those.
24:35
But as a result, soap makers and
24:38
manufacturers had to begin to synthetically
24:41
produce oils and other things they needed to make
24:43
soap. We have solved the problem of
24:46
ash. We no longer have to burn big
24:49
tree to get ash, but now we're having a
24:52
problem of all those fatty liquids,
24:54
oils. Germany didn't
24:57
have access to these things. And the
25:00
synthesized products they produced at this time would go
25:02
on to be used to make soap.
25:05
Except it technically wasn't
25:07
soap, because what they produced
25:10
was technically called detergent.
25:14
And with the advent of detergents,
25:17
as the world wars came to an end, many
25:20
factories were converted to the further research,
25:23
development, and production of these cleaning
25:26
products. Like they had to figure out
25:29
how to make many more of them more
25:31
biodegradable. As time went on, more and
25:34
more research was done in development to produce
25:37
fluid detergents. One of the
25:40
companies that benefited greatly from these
25:42
breakthroughs, and in addition of factory space,
25:45
was the previously mentioned Procter and Gamble, who
25:48
is still very much in business
25:51
today. This company, in the
25:53
1950s, sponsored a daytime television
25:56
drama, the genre of which became
25:59
known as a soap opera.
26:02
This new liquid detergent based soap was
26:05
strange looking and could cost more to
26:08
produce. And they began to produce
26:11
it. But another soap
26:13
enthusiast was on the horizon to
26:16
change soap as well.
26:19
Robert Ridgley Taylor
26:21
developed a thickened, pumped
26:24
hand soap called creamed
26:26
soap on tap. Now, my goodness,
26:30
if I went to the Walmart or the Fred
26:32
Meyer old Freddy's,
26:35
and I walked down the soap aisle, and instead
26:38
of calling it just soap or whatever
26:41
they called it, they called it creamed
26:44
soap on tap. You
26:47
know, I'd buy one. Creamed
26:50
soap on tap. This
26:52
creamed soap on tap was a luxury item
26:55
and hugely popular.
26:58
And so this creamed
27:01
soap on tap, this thickened
27:04
soapy mixture, is what
27:07
has become used in most
27:09
liquid soap and shower and hand soap
27:12
friends. But here's the catch
27:15
47 of the whole thing. It's
27:17
actually detergent.
27:20
Soap is defined as a substance
27:23
used with water for washing and
27:26
cleaning. Made of a compound of natural
27:28
oils or fats with sodium
27:31
hydroxide or another strong
27:33
alkali. The presence
27:36
of animal or other naturally occurring
27:38
oils seems to be, or maybe
27:41
even synthetic oils. I'll give you that. But it
27:44
seems to be a requirement for it to be called
27:47
soap. Detergent is
27:49
a water soluble cleansing agent
27:52
which combines with the impurities
27:55
and dirt to make them more soluble
27:58
along with the water, and differs from soap
28:01
in that it does not form a
28:04
scum with the salts and hard water
28:07
deposits it interacts with. So here's the
28:09
deal. We use
28:12
detergent because it is water
28:14
soluble and reacts with
28:17
the bad stuff when exposed to water,
28:20
whereas soap is reacting
28:23
to the water and helps move
28:26
the bad stuff away. So detergent
28:29
actually interacts with the physical grime
28:32
on your hand, whereas water
28:35
reacts, or, uh, soap reacts with
28:37
water to help loosen that stuff,
28:40
but does not break it down. And so
28:43
when they move it away, soap
28:46
naturally then hardens and forms a
28:49
scum that contains
28:51
disinfect, that contains those
28:54
things that once contaminated the
28:56
surface, the soap gets covered with a layer
28:59
of filth, and that's that nonsense.
29:02
If you're using barred soap, that's
29:05
the nonsense that gets left inside your shower
29:07
ledge. It's not just
29:10
soap. It's all of the freaky
29:13
dudes that have been hanging out in your armpits and
29:16
your leg crevices. And
29:18
now they have
29:21
convalesced into a gelatinous
29:23
pile of filth, and they're
29:26
becoming like flubber.
29:29
They're going to start moving, and they're going to start
29:31
becoming more powerful if they build
29:34
up. Soap is
29:37
causing buildup. And so,
29:40
to the age old question. If you drop
29:43
a bar of soap in the bathtub,
29:46
technically based on how
29:49
soap works, the soap
29:51
with that layer of buildup on the outside
29:55
would make the bathtub,
29:59
and as a result, the bar of
30:02
soap more dirty. And now, you
30:05
know, because soap reacts with water,
30:07
detergent is dissolved in
30:10
water. And so most soap
30:13
found in your bathroom, if it is liquid
30:16
or creamed soap
30:19
on tap, it is most
30:21
likely a, uh, derivative of detergent.
30:25
It's kind of like you are the laundry.
30:28
And the way, you know is when you wash it,
30:31
does it dissolve in water or does it just kind
30:34
of like, loosey goosey with the water?
30:37
That's how you know soap has a
30:39
weird history. And as
30:42
with most things that have to do with
30:45
hygiene and cleaning, it has
30:48
ties to religious practice. Except
30:50
what's interesting is that the history of soap
30:53
seems to be a byproduct, or,
30:56
if you will, a buildup
31:00
left over from those religious
31:02
practices, one
31:05
used in cleaning. And
31:08
that would later produce a different buildup for
31:11
us to love or hate. Make
31:14
sure you wash your hands, folks. Use some soap.
31:17
This brings us to the end of another episode of
31:20
privy. Thank you all so much for listening.
31:23
Uh, we're thankful
31:25
that you're here. Just a reminder, we would
31:28
love for, uh, you to submit another
31:31
review, uh, on Apple podcasts.
31:34
I, uh, know that Spotify, uh, has the review
31:37
option. Feel free to leave us a review there. Um,
31:40
five star options are preferred, and we thank you for that.
31:43
Um, unfortunately, Spotify doesn't have a
31:46
submission where you can submit a review. So if you want to
31:49
write us a review, go, uh, to Apple podcasts, write the
31:51
review, or rate us on Spotify and send us
31:54
your review via email. Uh, we'll read that here on the
31:57
show. We would love to hear from you in that
32:00
way. Uh, send us an email. Suggestions,
32:03
things you'd like to do, things you'd like to say. If you have
32:06
a crazy bathroom story, feel free to reach out. We would love to
32:09
have you on the show. Privycast@gmail.com.
32:11
Connect with us on social media. We are at
32:14
Privycast. Wherever social media is found, things are
32:17
getting kind of wild and popping off over there. So, uh,
32:20
yeah, join us there. We'd love for you to do that.
32:23
As always, we want to thank Kevin McLeod for
32:26
the use of barroom ballet as our intro
32:29
and outro music. You can find Kevin's
32:32
music at, uh, incompetent.com, and his music
32:35
is licensed under Creative Commons license Attribution
32:38
40. Thanks, Kevin.
32:41
This has been another episode of Privy. Thank you
32:43
all so much for joining us and listening. You mean a
32:46
lot. We love you all. And now,
32:49
as always, don't
32:52
forget to flush you.
32:55
Thank you.