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Handmade soap is usually more expensive than store-bought soap, so it needs to be better than store-bought – enough to make it worth the higher price. This means we have to use higher quality, mor … read more

You may have heard about African Black Soap (ABS). It’s a dark brown, usually mottled bar of soap, and sometimes it is quite soft. It originated in West Africa – Ghana, Nigeria and Cote D’Ivoire, … read more

It was TERRIBLE soap – harsh, soft, and stinky. Pioneers made it out of wood ashes and animal fat and used it to clean just about everything.To make it, you first have to leech potassium hydroxide … read more

Traditionally, Castile soap is hard bar soap made only from olive oil and lye in the Castile region of Spain. It has a pure white color that gets whiter with age, and has wonderful properties incl … read more

In Aleppo, Syria, they’ve been making huge amounts of a very special soap for more than four thousand years.Traditional Aleppo soap was a pure castile soap made with olive oil and lye in a hot pro … read more