Aleppo Soap
Inviato: 09/05/2010, 14:21
The Aleppo Soap [/ b] (Savon d'Alep) is a soap made with only olive oil and laurel oil typical of the city of Aleppo in Syria, whose handmade following a tradition that goes back to ' antiquities, perpetuated generation after generation.
In fact, quite similar to those soaps today are produced on site from the eighth century.
Traditional Aleppo Soap is a product made from vegetable oils without added perfumes, dyes, or preservatives.
Laurel oil soap helps to give this anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties while olive oil is characteristically soothing and hypoallergenic. It is therefore a kind of soap excellent for dry and sensitive as well as hygiene in general.
Caution: oil bay appears to be an irritant to some people why they do not tolerate any use.
Every year in November, when the olive oils are produced, the same ritual is repeated in the caravanserai of old souk of Aleppo.
Olive oil is treated with water and baking soda, slowly into a cauldron of rock, using the same system used in saponification antiquity.
Before cooking, when the pasta is ready, laurel oil is added, whose job is to scent and enrich the soap. The quality of the soap depends on the amount of used oil of laurel, which can vary from 0% to 45%.
The soaps, which are still green, are placed in the shape of a scaffolding tower, where they are let in fresh for a long time to mature. At this stage soaps are marked with the seal of the producer. The soap will harden into a dry period of 9 or 10 months.
In this period of maturation the soap begins to change color from green to become a golden color. This is because the chlorophyll in olive oil, which illuminated by sunlight, produce this color change.
In fact, quite similar to those soaps today are produced on site from the eighth century.
Traditional Aleppo Soap is a product made from vegetable oils without added perfumes, dyes, or preservatives.
Laurel oil soap helps to give this anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties while olive oil is characteristically soothing and hypoallergenic. It is therefore a kind of soap excellent for dry and sensitive as well as hygiene in general.
Caution: oil bay appears to be an irritant to some people why they do not tolerate any use.
Every year in November, when the olive oils are produced, the same ritual is repeated in the caravanserai of old souk of Aleppo.
Olive oil is treated with water and baking soda, slowly into a cauldron of rock, using the same system used in saponification antiquity.
Before cooking, when the pasta is ready, laurel oil is added, whose job is to scent and enrich the soap. The quality of the soap depends on the amount of used oil of laurel, which can vary from 0% to 45%.
The soaps, which are still green, are placed in the shape of a scaffolding tower, where they are let in fresh for a long time to mature. At this stage soaps are marked with the seal of the producer. The soap will harden into a dry period of 9 or 10 months.
In this period of maturation the soap begins to change color from green to become a golden color. This is because the chlorophyll in olive oil, which illuminated by sunlight, produce this color change.