Traditionnal Aleppo Soap 75 %

Rare Aleppo soap with 75% laurel berry oil

Rare Aleppo soap enriched with 75% bay laurel oil

This ecofriendly zero waste soap bar is a pure and rich cosmetic. Its composition could not be more natural and pure, making it a musthave for every skin type.

Strengths of the Aleppo soap enriched with bay laurel oil

Aleppo soap is really a musthave : it fit in well with the zero waste mindset and it is a natural care product. The Soap has even greater benefits for your skin and the whole family can enjoy these :

• Cold Processed
• Made according to a traditional recipe
• Ingredients are 100% natural
• Zero waste, environmentally friendly product
• For every skin type, suitable for hair care, as a face mask and / or as a shaving soap.
• Perfect even for sensitive skin (baby skin to mature skin and every skin type in between.)
• Neutral fragrance
• Affordable and eco-friendly
• Original product, made following the ancestral methods
• Made in France 
• Vegan 

• Made traditionally, according to the ancestral recipe, from at least 4 000 years ago.
• Made in Syria - Natural product.
• Exceptional quality .
• First cold pressing extra virgin olive oil. 75 % d’huile de baies de laurier. 
• No colouring. no added perfume. No antioxydants
• Weight : about 150g according to the degree of desiccation.

Ingredients in order of importance :

Sodium laurate, sodium olivate, Aqua, sodium hydroxyde

Aleppo soap is made with olive oil and bay leaf oil.

Before 1950, all the inhabitants of Syria made their soap with these two ingredients. The oils were first pressed because at that time there were no factories capable of pressing the waste and pits of the olives (pomace).
Syria was under French mandate from 1920 to 1946. Engineers developed a process to extract more oil from the olives by pressing the pomace (residue of the first pressing) with a solvent.
Since then, the quantities of Aleppo soap produced have exploded because the oil is cheap. Today, many Aleppo soaps are made with this solvent extracted olive oil.
During the reports, we are never shown the method of extraction. Why is that?
The only ones who tell us the method of extraction are those who sell Aleppo soaps with oil extracted by pressure.  Why not the others? 
  

Here are the real questions to ask without relying solely on the word of the seller.

• Quality of oils: 100% olive oil? (possible blending with palm oil) 
• Method of extraction: Pressure or solvent? 
• Number of pressings: 1st, 2nd or last pressing?
• Precisepercentage of oils used.

The stamp on Aleppo soaps does not give a guarantee of quality, it is simply the name of the soap maker, as in our country where each soap has a name or a brand.
The terms used, such as "Genuine Aleppo soap" "The only soap of Aleppo" "The real Aleppo soap" have no meaning.
The oil extracted from the pomace is dark green, which gives the usual colour of Aleppo soap. The brown exterior colour of the soaps is due to oxidation.
Aleppo soaps with the oil of first pressure have a light green colour, there is very little oxidation.

The method of extraction, pressure or solvent, is valid for all vegetable oils.