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Aleppo soap: processing method

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Karawan Authentic, our Aleppo soap manufacturer, chooses its olive oil in December. It is when the master soap makers produce Aleppo soap following an old-age ancestral method. Olive oil, bay tree oil, water and soda are mixed together and left to cook slowly at low temperature in copper cauldrons for 24 hours.

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The mixture is then poured out in great slabs and left to cold. It is then hand-cut into rough blocks. The blocks are stacked to dry and mature for over nine months under an arched drying area of the soap workshop.

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Thanks to the low heat and slow drying process, Aleppo soaps last very long and the living properties of the oils are preserved. Read more…