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How animal fats and ash help you get clean. The process of producing soap isn't difficult, but is time consuming. Soap making would have been discovered thousands of years ago by many different groups.
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1999: How the World Sounded the Year You Were Born—成人论坛 World Service Archive
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1999: How the World Sounded the Year You Were Born
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成人论坛 World Service Archive
This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project