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.

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 ...

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 ...