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Did you know that dirty, stinky barbarians invented soap? Watch our video to see how it changed hygiene forever. Tag a soap maker you love and share this history with them!

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Julian Kirchherr had a hypothesis. The Assistant Professor in Geosciences at Utrecht University suspected that a significant proportion of published research articles in the field of sustainability ...