Toilet paper

Toilet paper is a type of thin, absorbent paper that is cut in contact with water, used for sanitary use and intimate cleaning after evacuation.
Before its invention, which dates back to the nineteenth century, people used to do their cleaning with leaves of lettuce, water and sometimes corn kernels
Although paper has been used as packaging material and padding in Chinese history since the second century BC, the first use of toilet paper in human history dates back to the sixth century in medieval China
During the early fourteenth century (Yuan Dynasty) it was recorded that only in the province of Zhejiang were manufactured 10 million packages each year with about 1,000 to 10,000 sheets of toilet paper.
Elsewhere in the world the rich used fabrics made of wool, lace, or hemp for their ablutions, while the less fortunate used their own hands, defecated in rivers, and cleaned themselves with the most diverse materials, such as rags of any cloth wood chips, tree leaves, grass, hay, stones, sand, mosses, snow, ears and corn husks, fruit peels or shells depending on location, climatic conditions or social customs. In Ancient Rome, a sponge nailed to a piece of wood was commonly used and, after its use, placed back in a bucket of salt water.
French satirist Francois Rabelais suggests that the soft feathers of a live goose's back provide an excellent means of cleaning.