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A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English. In Eight Volumes: With a General Preface, Giving an Account of the Progress of Trade and Navigation, from Its First Beginning. Illustrated with Several Hundred Useful Maps and
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A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English. In Eight Volumes: With a General Preface, Giving an Account of the Progress of Trade and Navigation, from Its First Beginning. Illustrated with Several Hundred Useful Maps and
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in African black soap production dates back to the 14th century. Despite the soaps name african black soap are not always black with some ranging from beige to dark brown. The earliest detailed account of African black soap appears in
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Samaila AB, Yarma AA and Oshomoh EO. Anti-fungal and Anti-bacterial activities of Sabulun salo local soap in Bauchi Metropolis, Bauchi State, Nigeria. Special Fungal Pathogens Journal (SFPJ), Vol 1, No 1, pg:
60:. It is made from the ash of locally harvested African plants and dried peels, which gives the soap its characteristic dark colour as well as oils derived from plant sources. Black soap has become a popular 138:), where locals used palm oil, banana leaves, and wood ash. Nyendael noted that the soap-making techniques in the Gold Coast were very similar and differed little from the soap-making of the people of 116:
the Portuguese valued the soap, likely for its effectiveness. However, they refrained from introducing the soap to Portugal to avoid disrupting their local soap-making industry. In the early 1800s,
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The origins of African black soap are deeply intertwined with the cultural practices and natural resources of various West African ethnic groups. For instance, while some communities use
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product in North America. In West Africa, black soap is often made by women using traditional recipes and is often exported through
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MacGregor Laird and R.A.K. Oldfield documented that the Igbo people of Nigeria made African black soap using palm oil and ash.
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Black soap has been found to have some antimicrobial properties against skin microbiota such as
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in Nigeria, which according to James Welsh (an English explorer) had a fragrance of violet.
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the oils and fats). Next, water and various oils and fats, such as
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provided accounts of soap-making on the Gold Coast (modern-day
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into their soap-making processes. However, the use of
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bark, is first sun-dried and then burned to produce
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Dudu-Osun
soap
West Africa
toiletry
fair trade
Staphylococcus aureus
Escherichia coli
Candida albicans
shea butter
palm oil
shea butter
Awnsham Churchill
Senegambia region
expeditionists
David van Nyendael
Ghana
Benin
plantain
palm tree
cocoa
shea tree
ash
alkali
saponify
coconut oil
palm oil
shea butter
Yoruba people
Nigeria

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