Friday, June 4, 2021

In the Kitchen Part 2

 

I got a lot of questions yesterday about why on earth I was making expensive stinky soap. 



I made a small batch last year out of curiosity. It you watch a lot of soap making videos on You Tube everyone eventually gets around to making this soap as it has a long history of being the gold standard of soap. 



It's a traditional Middle Eastern Soap that is famous for its moisturizing and anti-microbial properties. It was supposedly Cleopatra's soap of choice.




It's made in huge floor vats most notably in the city of Aleppo in Syria where it gets its name. I can only imagine how bad this place must smell. My house still smells like burnt fruit. I've also read that if you wash your woolens in it moths won't be a problem. I totally get that. 




If this batch cures like the last one that burnt smell will pretty much disappear over the year. What's left is a slightly medicinal smell that I like. This is the only soap I use on my face anymore. It's so rich and creamy it's like getting a facial. It does wonders for your feet too and everything in between but it's too expensive for all over use. That's $64 dollars worth of laurel berry oil you're looking at right there. Like I said, this stuff is gold. 



9 comments:

  1. I enjoyed the lesson on the soap. I really did. Who would have thought? And that IS some really expensive soap. For 20 bars? And that's without the other ingredients. No wonder you hoard it! :-)
    Blessings,
    Betsy

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  2. Very interesting. Glad the burnt fruit odor dissipates over the year:)

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  3. Fascinating--thanks for the history; I really enjoyed learning about that! You are worth the investment!

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  4. Sounds like it is worth every penny though.

    I kind of like a medicinal smelling soap. For some reason it makes me think I am getting cleaner.

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  5. Amazing that the soap requires such a long aging process - it requires patience, as well.

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  6. Ohhhh, I love the cleopatra connection!

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  7. It is very impressive soap with a history, I like that. Enjoy.

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