Pearl Soap is a company based in Syria, it has been making Aleppo soap since 1945. The soaps are made primarily of natural olive oil which is boiled in a large vat with water, lye, and laurel oil.

Aleppo soap joins the city's traditional music, Al-Qudoud al-Halabiya, on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage, while the city itself -- declared a world heritage site in 1986 -- was ...

Archaeologists unearthed traces of it in Babylonian clay artefacts, which were also inscribed with recipes for soap-making. In Aleppo, olive oil, laurel berry oil and lye were melted down, then cooled ...

“Hopefully there will be a day that we see them again restored.” The ancient souks where Aleppo’s famed olive oil soap is piled up in stacks for sale has been reduced in many places to ...

Aleppo soap finds refuge in France Of the 100 soap factories that stood in the city, only around 10 remain. Many have relocated to Damascus or neighbouring Turkey.