Editing Soap (section)

===Ancient China===
A detergent similar to soap was manufactured in ancient China from the seeds of ''[[Gleditsia sinensis]]''.<ref name="Jones">{{cite book |author=Jones, Geoffrey |title=Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-160961-9 |chapter=Cleanliness and Civilization |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qki6zZ4aWd0C&pg=PP101 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507004012/https://books.google.com/books?id=qki6zZ4aWd0C&pg=PP101 |archive-date=2016-05-07 |url-status=live}}</ref> Another traditional detergent is a mixture of pig pancreas and plant ash called ''zhuyizi'' ({{zh|s=猪胰子|t=豬胰子|p=zhūyízǐ}}). Soap made of animal fat did not appear in China until the modern era.<ref name="Benn">{{cite book |author=Benn, Charles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ile3jSveb4sC&pg=PA116 |title=Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-19-517665-0 |page=116 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505002603/https://books.google.com/books?id=ile3jSveb4sC&pg=PA116 |archive-date=2016-05-05 |url-status=live}}</ref> Soap-like detergents were not as popular as ointments and creams.<ref name="Jones" />