History of the appearance of the napkin
Moist napkin had hundred per-cent natural origin, indeed in the times of antiquity its role carried out fig leaf. Specifically, according to the historical evidences, slaves to the meal gave it, so that the gentlemen would have the capability to wipe hands after fatty food, indeed they ate in those times in essence with hands. The natural juice of fig leaf moistened hands, helping more rapidly from to clean them the remainders of food.
Further in the historical sources the prototype of contemporary moist napkins appears in France (times of the middle ages). Game and wine were main components of ration and before the appearance of forks the pieces of food took by hands and they sent into the mouth, therefore on the etiquette of servant obligated were to bring to the table, as needed, silver cups with the water and clean towels. In the silver-plated dishes the hands washed and wiped by their towel.
In Russia also were used “moist napkins”. To the guest of note before the meal they brought jug with the spring water and clean so that it could wash and wipe hands.
The traditions of the Japanese before the food or by tea drinking to give moist towel so that it would be possible to sit down at the table with the clean thoughts and the hands, arrived at us from the depth of centuries.
Thus, for a period of centuries, the product claimed in modern world absorbed into itself the traditions of many generations and different peoples in order in the 21st Century to become the universal means of hygiene.
Present
Appearance of a term “moist napkin” can be attributed to the seventieth years OF XX. Specifically, then appeared the first napkins, impregnated with alcohol lotion from the rough cellulose. This was the timid attempt to create that claimed society product. They were not practical, since material was distant from the perfection, but moisture rapidly volatilized, making napkins unfit for the use.
And only with the advent of the contemporary technologies, which made it possible to create soft synthetic tissue sufficiently durable and in also the time, to invent convenient packing airtight and in also the time, to find the formula of liquid for the impregnation transferred product from the historical category into the category of the contemporary and claimed means of hygiene.
Moist napkins in the 21st Century acquired the mass of attractive consumer qualities, after enlarging its functional designation. Different additives to means for the impregnation of napkins ensure moistening the skin and exclude allergic reactions. Improvement of the technology of production gives the possibility to obtain hundred per-cent natural product at the output, which makes it possible to use them for the maintenance of tender skin of child, woman use the napkins for removing makeups, and in the journey or under the road conditions they will help to refresh face and hands instead of the soap and the water. One of the consumer characteristics - convenient and practical packing, which makes it possible to retain moisture the long time, being narrower than opened once.
The enormous selection of different categories of moist napkins is given to user, it is possible to say, in all cases of the life:
- With the aroma and without,
- On the alcohol basis (antiseptic) and hypo-allergenic,
- Children's (only from the natural components) and universal,
- For the intimate hygiene,
- For removing makeups,
- For the harvesting.
Depending on the sphere of use, and also on the need of buyer, them they distinguish by a quantity in the packing, the aroma or his absence. Tendencies toward the improvement of napkins testify about the growing consumer demand on them.
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