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==History==
The modern OCM method claims to be derived from ancient bathing practices. It differs from these practices in it's focus solely on oil. Modern [[soap]] was not produced industrially until the 19th century. In the ancient world people would use olive oil as part of their bathing. They may have combined the oil with ash, and we know they used a scraping implement called a [[strigil]].
Before the widespread availability of [[soap]], which has existed for thousands of years, but was not produced industrially until the 19th century, people in many cultures generated their own soap by rubbing ash on their bodies and then rubbing down with oil and removing this mixutre with a scraping implement called a [[strigil]]. In the Roman [[Roman baths|baths,]] a man would bath in this way before taking a [[Caldarium]]s or 'hot baths'. [[Pliny the Elder]] himself mentions ancient bathing practices.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WIFiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA494 |title=The Natural History of Pliny|last=Elder.)|first=Pliny (the|date=1890-01-01|publisher=G. Bell|language=en}}</ref>▼
[[File:Stamnos women bath Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2411.jpg|thumb|Stamnos women bath Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2411]]
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