The fragrance of laurel seed oil wafts through the Alepia soap factory in Santeny, 30kms south-east of Paris. In the laboratory Hassan Harastani, wearing white overalls, pours the hot dark green gel ...

The UN"s cultural organisation added Aleppo"s famous soap to its intangible cultural heritage list Tuesday with Syria"s second city again wracked by war. Artisans have brewed olive and laurel oil in ...

A collateral victim of the Syrian war, Aleppo soap has found a sanctuary far from the ruined city whose elegant souks, many now reduced to rubble, have made the coveted green bars for centuries. In an ...

The United Nations cultural agency has added Aleppo's famous soap to its intangible cultural heritage list. Syria's second city is on the organisation's endangered list, due to damage sustained in the ...

Aleppo soap – widely considered to be the first soap ever made – is popular across the Middle East and far beyond. But the intense fighting is making business in Syria’s second city all but impossible ...

“It’s something I grew up with – there was always the smell of this soap in our house,” says Adelle Tarzibachi of the soap she imports from Aleppo, Syria. “It’s the smell of my country, and the ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. Aleppo's famous laurel oil soap is back in production after some of the city’s traditional soap-making ...

The production method of John Al Haddad's soaps sold in his Schöneberg store, has not changed for centuries: the natural product is a sublime combination of pure olive and laurel oil. John Al Haddad's ...

Stacks of laurel soap at the Jbaili soap factory, an 800 year old artisanal soap manufacturer, in the old city of Syria’s northern city of Aleppo. (AFP pic) The UN’s cultural organisation added Aleppo ...