The Greatest Inventions Ever Created - Part 1

One of the greatest inventions ever created was soap.

Soap is suspected to be invented in 2800 B.C. by the Ancient Babylons. They enjoyed their soap in many ways. They would wash themselves, was their sheep, and their clothes with the soap they created. Their soap was nothing like the soap we have today which is beautifully scented, moisturizing, colourful, and just plain dandy grand. I personally believe the Ancient Babylon soap really sucked. I believe this because later on in time people stopped using it. The early greeks (11th-14th century B.C.) didn't use soap. Now, from first impression thats really really gross, BUT you have to remember that the Greeks were ridiculously smart. The greeks invented democracy, university, and play-doh. That being said, if they stopped using soap there had to be a really good reason; the reason being bad soap (duh). Instead of soap, they used clay, sand, and ashes, and then annointed themselves with oil, and scraped it off with this thing called a strigil. Eventually they started using soap again, so some smart greek must have invented a better kind. It definetely wasn't Socrates.

But why is soap one of the greatest inventions? Without soap, we would be dirty stinky people. We would all have lice, we would all be greasy and have bad skin complexions. Also we wouldn't live as long. Cleanliness increases ones life span. All the smart people who invented wonderful things such as the lightbulb wouldn't have lived long enough to invent what they invented. That is why soap is one of the greatest invention ever.

Mind you, soap in large amounts is bad. Over the last 100 years we have increased our cleanliness by 12 fold and because of this the amount of people with allergies has increased drastically. 100 years ago, allergies virtually did not exist. None of this really matters to me though because I do not have allergies. Long live soap.