When baths met soap
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The Middle Ages, or Medieval Times?
I'm made of olive oil and laurel oil, which comes from bay leaves. And those oils give me this nice hue. So you're from roughly the middle ages, or mediaeval times. Ye. Usually we think of mediaeval times being in europe. I'm from the middle east, and historians call my time the islamic golden age. It was a great era. People were building big temples called mosques,. learning a lot about astronomy and medicine and math - even writing books on paper. so many achievements. For a long time, normal ple used me for my lovely smell but mainly, people took baths and scraped themselves off to get clean. They had special tools
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