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 on Tuesday with Syria's second city again wracked by war. Artisans have brewed olive and laurel ...

“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 ...