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Pickup currently unavailable at Palestinian Soap Cooperative
One kilogram in six bars; the best price per dollar option for Marseille soap that we know of on the internet.
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Marseille soap descends from the ancient soap-making techniques of Palestine and the broader Arab world, after Nablus soap was taxed during the Crusades and the taxes were used to create a European soap industry based on the cauldron-cooked and olive-oil-based process. Because of a government edict in 1688, soap makers in Marseille have been obligated to continue using the same cooking process discovered in the Arab world.
Fer à Cheval, founded in 1856, is the finest contemporary example of this pan-Mediterranean soap making tradition. Since France's imperial era, when it conquered tropical countries, most Marseille olive soaps began to include 28% coconut oil. Fer à Cheval recently became the first manufacturer remove any coconut (copra) oil and reverting to a pure olive oil recipe that increases the soap's sustainability and regional economic benefits.
Marseille soaps are green and have an earthy scent because they are made of olive pit oil, a kind of molasses-consistency oil made from crushing the olive seeds and skins left over from the pressing of edible olive oil.
It has a scent something like a grassy field after it rains.
Made in Marseille, Provence, France, of olive pit oil, water, and sodium hydroxide.
This is the best soap I’ve ever used. The soap dish is beautiful. And the lathed honey dipper was so appreciated by my lathe-hobbyist bee-keeping father. I will be back for more soap as soon as I run out. Free Palestine
My friends and I are enjoying them very much. We are also so happy about the changes in Syria. I hope that life will be easier for the soap makers now.