Pearl Soap is a company based in Syria, it has been making Aleppo soap since 1945. The soaps are made primarily of natural olive oil which is boiled in a large vat with water, lye, and laurel oil.
Then essential oils like peppermint and lavender are added. The final soap is cooled before it's bottled. The factory in Vista, California, can make over 14.3 million bottles a year. Now for the ...
In the Mediterranean, soap was entirely unknown: Egyptians and Romans used oils for bathing and the Egyptians used natron, a crystallized rock of brine, to launder clothes. Although some individual ...
The process is rudimentary, involving a plastic bucket in a concrete courtyard and just three ingredients: olive oil, water and lye. "The person who taught us to make the soap was an elderly ...
"The use of olive oil reflects people's strong relation to nature, and many people use their homemade soap as a personal gift for celebrations such as weddings and birthdays," the UNESCO statement ...