When baths met soap
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Meat Ivory Soap
Soap before my time was for luxury or laundry, not exactly prime time. But eventually in the united states, baths became way more common. Two big reasons is that people have changed their minds about baths. And they started working out that even though you couldn't see infection causing germs, you could wash them away exactly aem so people are getting acquainted with the idea of germs and getting more into baths. Germ theory is germ theory real. We are under attack by invisible organisms. That's how sicknesses actually spread. Little, tiny bacteria and viruses make us ill. The only way to fight them off is with a wash. Not just once a month, wash at least once
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