Abstract
Soap is undoubtedly the oldest product to be produced specifically as a surfactant and in its many forms continues to play a major role today. Within this highly competitive marketplace soap is presented in a multitude of forms both solid and liquid, and the object of this chapter will be to identify the many ways in which soap has developed from earliest times to a product which, today, we most probably take for granted.
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Willcox, M. (2000). Soap. In: Butler, H. (eds) Poucher’s Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2734-1_15
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