When baths met soap

Forever Ago

Lemonada Media

History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Scrub-a-dub-dub, it’s time for the tub! Or is it? You probably wash up with soap plenty of times throughout the week, but did you know that most people throughout history didn’t use soap for their bodies at all? Joy and co-host Maeve take a trip to Menaka’s ‘Storical Soap Stand, to learn how soap became such a big deal. And on First Things First, we’ll be putting these items in historical order: kids’ bubble bath, shower caps, and rubber duckies. Don’t forget to send us your time capsule ideas at foreverago.org/contact Today’s episode is sponsored by: Outschool.com/foreverago – To save $15 on your child’s first class Meetfabric.com/FOREVER – Sign up in 10 minutes. Fabric Insurance Agency policies issued by Vantis Life. Not available in New York and Montana. Prices subject to underwriting and health questions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:43.9	This is forever ago where we explore the before.
0:47.3	Mayve, remember how Manica started a soap stand a while back?
0:51.2	Oh yeah, I wonder how it's going.
0:53.7	Have you seen her new commercial?
0:55.6	Oh no, show me. Get ready because it is really something.
1:01.6	Come on down to the historical soap stand.
1:05.2	Hi, I'm Manica and I'm here with a bunch of soaps at the historical soap stand.
1:12.4	You might not have heard the word historical before and that's because we took the word
1:16.3	historical and shortened it so that all the words in our store name could start with an S.
1:21.6	And if you like that, you'll love what we've got at our stand.
1:27.5	It all starts with S. It's all kinds of special soap.
1:32.7	Because you know, normal stores have normal stuff.
1:35.8	Maybe they carry liquid soap. That's pretty exciting.
1:38.3	Maybe they have some modern day soap bars.
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