BBC's ever popular antique's collection show Bargain Hunt stopped off in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, on Monday (March 14), and the history of soap and how it is made was uncovered with a local expert. The show aired on Monday (March 14) and host Charlie Ross said soap making can be dated as far back at 2800 BC in Ancient Babylon.
The process of making soap remains the same today as what it did then. Emma Grosse, at Soapology in Newark, said: "People found that washing things in the river was much easier when they realised that the animal fats had combined with the ashes of the fire and they were being washed downstream.
"That would have been their cooking utensils that were being washed at the time." Soap is said to have come about by 'chance', according to Charlie.
