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The oldest man-made surfactant utilized as a “Consumer Product” is soap. In 1957, Professor Martin Levey of Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, uncovered a historical tablet in Tello, the Sumerian Lagas. From this, we know that the Sumerians, who inhabited the region between the Tigris and Euphradis rivers and possessed a highly developed culture with their own language and writing, had already produced soap in 2500 B. C. They used this soap for the washing of woolen clothing.
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Verbeek, H. (1987). Historical Review. In: Falbe, J. (eds) Surfactants in Consumer Products. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71545-7_1
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