Soap
It is unknown when soap was invented or by who, but it has been widespread in the East Hu-Balai region and a good portion of the northern coast of Rashini durng the 23rd century B.B. The Berini Berini improved on this invention and created scented soaps with spices and perfumes in them that gave them a large influx of wealth during the days of the @Berini Empire.
Properties
Material Characteristics
Soap is generally a hard block that needs to grated to be used in water for things like washing hands, clothes and dishes. There are some luxury soaps which are softer like modern soaps.
Physical & Chemical Properties
Soap is excellent at cleaning dirt and grease because it's made of molecules which are hydrophilic on one side and hydrophobic on the other. This means that it can bind to the hydrophobic fats and oils and yet still be washed away by water.
Compounds
The ingredients for soap include alkaloids like ashes suspended in water combined with some sort of fat or oil. Some common fats used are:olive oil, lard, cow fat, sheep fat, horse fat, seal fat, whale fat,and others.
History & Usage
History
Nobody knows where or when it was invented, but it became widespread in many lands around the Hu-Balai sea by the 23rd century B.B. It reached Lefan at around the 20th century B.B due to trade via some of it's eastern colonies.
Everyday use
It's mainly used for cleaning hands, clothes and dishes. The rich folk like relaxing in warm bathes with luxury soaps.
Cultural Significance and Usage
In some places, getting good soap is really hard, so if one gets his hands on some, he might put it in a display case or make something pretty out of it to off how cool he is to his friends.
Hazards
Soap factories smell really bad. Nobody wants to live next to a soap factory and soap makers are looked down upon in many places. In certain places it's implemented in the legal system that a wife can ask the courts for a divorce from her husband because of the smell if she marries a soap maker or a tanner.
Environmental Impact
The smell from the soap production can have a negative impact on a nearby town's or city's economy. Soap is also a pollutant as soapy water is simply washed away into the nearest body of water (like a river).
Distribution
Trade & Market
Some soaps are luxuries while others are staples. The best soaps are sold by a certain soap factory in the lands of an ancient Berini tribe called the Nersh tribe.
Value
Varied. Some soaps are as cheap as 50 Copper Tulli per kilo while others can cost as much as 1 Gold Tullus per kilo.
Rarity
Depends where and depends what kind. For example, common in the Berinus basin but ridiculously rare in the Saniri mountains and in Kur.
Odor
Depends on the quality. There are really cheap and stinky versions and there are luxury versions with amazing smells as well as all of the in-betweens.
Color
Alll sorts.
Common State
Solid or dissolved in water.
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