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The History of Soapmaking

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Nothing comes from nothing

Defined as the 'capacity to do work' and by Einstein's famous equation E=mc², discover energy.

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History of Soap
Ivory Soap: A Brand History
Bubble history

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Reading

Book 3 of ST240, Our Chemical Environment, The Open University

Gibbs F.W., ‘The history of the manufacture of soap’, Annals of Science, vol. 4, pp. 169–90, 1939

Lucock Wilson R., Soap through the Ages, a Progress Book published by Unilever Limited

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