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An Aleppo soap-making family producing traditional Ghar (laurel) soap by methods passed down over generations. Their work belongs to the city's long heritage craft of savon d'Alep.
Best for Traditional laurel (Ghar) Aleppo soap
Aleppo
The Zanabili family have made soap in Aleppo since 1842, cooking laurel and olive oil into traditional Ghar soap by the ancestral cold method. That long lineage is why the house carries the name Pearl of Aleppo.
Best for Heritage Aleppo laurel soap (savon d'Alep)
Aleppo
Sharabati e.K. has brought laurel soap made by its families in Aleppo, Syria, to Germany since 2019, selling to retailers and pointing private buyers to its outlets. Bars are graded by laurel oil content from 1 to 40 percent, in hot and cold process versions. The company says its Aleppo soap factory received UNESCO World Heritage Site designation in 1986.
Best for Aleppo laurel-oil soap graded from 1 to 40 percent laurel, via German retail outlets
Sharabati e.K. brings Aleppo soap made by its families in Aleppo, Syria, to Germany and has done so since 2019. The company describes roots in the traditional production of the city's laurel soap, with knowledge passed down through generations. It says its soap factory in Aleppo received UNESCO World Heritage Site designation in 1986. The years from 2019 to 2022 were marked by difficulty, and in 2020 resources went into stabilising production conditions and safeguarding jobs. Bars are graded by laurel oil content, from 1 percent up to 40 percent in the hot process, with a 40 percent bay leaf oil cold process bar alongside. Loofah pads and back scrub belts complete the range. The German company sells to retailers only and directs private buyers to its list of outlets, and part of its profits has gone to social support in crisis regions. Its stated aim is to continue the traditional Aleppo craft and to preserve it as a cultural practice for the generations that follow.
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