Goat fat

Soaps A class of chemical substances which are metal salts of fatty acids. Pliny (first century a.d) records that the ancient Romans learned the preparation of soap from Nordic tribes, who used a pomade prepared from goat fat and the calcined ashes of beech-wood. Sapo, the Latin word for soap, is derived from the Nordic sepe. The chemistry of soaps was elucidated in the early nineteenth century by French... 

Caproic add (hexanoic add) CH3(CH2)4C00H Goat fat L caper, goat... 

Soap. According to Pliny, the Phoenicians made the first soap about 2,500 years ago from boiled goat fat and caustic wood ash. The recipe hasn t changed much we still manufacture soap by boiling some sort of fat with a base. The most common base is sodium hydroxide, or lye, hence the term lye soap for old-fashioned caustic soaps. Remember Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies brewing up batches of lye soap out by the cee-ment pond Probably not. 

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