Once in Aleppo, one of the pleasures of the rest in this ancient city is to go looking in his legendary souks of the famous soap laurel. The origin of the production of soap of Aleppo is lost in the mists of time really, but it is around the ninth century. 
that he knows, by the momentum of Arab trade, a first major deployment in the Mediterranean. She landed in southern France and in Marseille if they make a version that does, however, to use only olive oil. The ritual of the working of Aleppo soap is perpetuated to this day unchanged for centuries. It
obtained from only four natural ingredients: the oil coming from the extensive and lush olive groves Syrians, water, soda and oil laurel berries harvested in the region around Aleppo. No additives, no artificial fragrance or color.
Aleppo Soap is a product 100% biodegradable, completely natural. The process begins in November after the olive harvest and continues until February. During the same period also collect the berries of bay which gives a precious and fragrant oil. In large cauldrons olive oil is subjected to a slow cooking for days, stirred with water and soda. Obtained the green paste of soap is added then the laurel oil in quantities ranging from 5% to 50% is the scent that determines the quality 
. The soap is poured and leveled at this point in large areas on the ground, where they are cut by hand into small loaves shaped like a cube. (Delicious small decorative soaps shaped like a drop or star are effectively used as a moth). The workers sit on the soap at this point to the same stamp, one by one, by hand, with the mark of the factory to indicate the quality and provenance, then, taking them from land they overlap each other to form small vertical towers which remain to dry for at least 7-9 months. The aging can be prolonged for some years (not more than five) in this case giving rise to a soap even more valuable. E 'at this stage that the green color of this soap, as a result of oxidation in air, takes out a yellow-brown tone. 
Soap of Aleppo, in the stalls of the souk is often exposed to open, cut in half, so as not to appreciate in the heart of fragrant green olive laurel that he handed down unchanged for centuries the fame and virtues .
( The Journal of Istanbul , a. XVII, No. 7, July 2009)
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