The history of toilet paper

Every day we use toilet paper, but few know how it appeared. The history of toilet paper starts from the time when it first began to be manufactured from raw silk in China (as it was in the second century of our era). After 14 centuries, during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich, paper manufacturing originated in Russia. But the sanitary-hygienic application it is found after 200 years, when the world experienced a rapid growth of the paper industry.

The material was determined by the place of residence. In the coastal areas before the invention of toilet paper was popular mussel shells. The Hawaiian paper was replaced by a shell of old coconut. Well, if you happen to be born into a rich Royal family, you certainly would have used lace and woolen cloth.

In every public toilet in Ancient Rome was a stick to which was attached a sponge. There was a bucket of salt water, into which put a stick. The rich prefer the sponge wool and salt water rose water. The population of colonial America enjoyed a corn stalk.

In the history of toilet paper with 1700 years of the new phase. It was then that people began to use daily Newspapers, which by that time had become public. We can say that the invention of the printing press that Gutenberg invented and toilet paper. The citizens of America in the nineteenth century enjoyed great popularity in the Sears catalog (Sears). He was just hanging on a nail in the bathroom of his pages was a very soft free toilet paper (100 sheets). However, second place still firmly held corn cobs. After printing of the magazine began to use a brilliant thick paper (1930), the directory ceased to be popular.
The first real production of toilet paper began in 1880 in England. Though this was a rough paper, the British liked it very much, they prefer it now. But the Americans made a choice in favor of soft toilet paper, which went on sale in 1907.

In the XX century finally formed requirements to the quality of toilet paper, as well as her appearance. Consumers could now choose either colored toilet paper, or corrugated or pimpled, single or double, with a fancy pattern or dazzling white.

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