Alep soap
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ALEP SOAP is the last living soap on the market today. How a soap can be alive? Its secret lies on its ancient processing method that has been preserved over two thousend years in its town of origin, Alep in ex-mesopotania. Alep soap is the ancestor of the hard soap and is brought back to our modern civilization thanks to Karawan Authentic, a French company that owns a traditional soap workshop in Alep.
Karawan Authentic is one of the rare soap makers that continue to follow the tradition by the letter. Their soaps are still handcrafted exclusiveley with pure organically grown unrefined cold expressed olive oil and bay tree oil (No coconut or palm oil!). The soaps are then slowly dried in the open air for over 9 months. This ancestral method preserves the living properties of the oils and makes a long lasting soap. Read more…