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Everything Everywhere Daily

A History of Soap and Detergent

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Sometime in the last 24 hours, most of you have used soap or detergent, either directly or indirectly.  Soap, like many other things, was most likely discovered by accident thousands of years ago.  Fast forward to today, and these products are used for cleaning almost everything, from our bodies to cars to dishes.  Soaps and detergents, despite being similar products that serve similar purposes, approach their tasks slightly differently and are used in different circumstances. Learn more about soap and detergent, how they were developed, and how they work on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! Mint Mobile Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/eed Stash Go to get.stash.com/EVERYTHING to see how you can receive $25 towards your first stock purchase. ExpressVPN Go to expressvpn.com/EED to get an extra four months of ExpressVPN for free!w Subscribe to the podcast!  https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Austin Oetken & Cameron Kieffer   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/  Disce aliquid novi cotidie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sometime in the last 24 hours, most of you have used soap or detergent either directly or indirectly.

0:06.0

Soap, like many things, was most likely discovered by accident thousands of years ago.

0:11.0

But fast forward to today, and these products are used for cleaning almost everything from our bodies to cars to dishes.

0:18.0

Soap and detergents, despite being similar products that serve similar purposes,

0:22.8

approach their tasks slightly differently and are used in different circumstances.

0:27.4

Learn more about soap and detergent, how they were developed and how they work,

0:31.8

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. everywhere daily.

0:51.3

Why are businesses like Hello Vet choosing Apple products and services?

0:55.8

One of the great things about Apple products is that it's really easy for us to handle the security, the updates, the pre-installed applications.

0:59.5

We've been able to do that without a dedicated IT support team.

1:03.0

Find out how Apple products and services can help you run your business at Apple.com forward

1:08.9

slash hello vet.

1:13.6

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1:18.6

Cousin Brenda, what are you doing here? You're married anyway.

1:22.6

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1:49.0

world that we rarely even think about them. They're used for cleaning and hygiene and most of us may

1:54.4

have never even gone more than a few days without ever using them. Yet there was a time when people

1:59.3

spent their entire lives without using soap.

2:03.0

We don't have any details as to when humans first discovered or invented soap, but it was likely

2:08.4

an accidental discovery that occurred thousands of years ago. It wasn't soap exactly as we would

2:14.2

think of it today, but it would have been soap-like. It probably happened

2:18.5

when melted animal fat was mixed with wood ash from a campfire and then mixed with water.

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