7 stores · curated ORBIS register
Kaleici (Old Bazaar), Antalya
Set inside a 600-year-old Ottoman hamam in Antalya's Kaleici old bazaar, this shop trades in traditional Turkish handicrafts. Expect traditional clothing, scented soaps, chandeliers, incense, tablecloths and natural perfumes.
Best for Traditional Turkish handicrafts, soaps and souvenirs in a historic hamam
Ortakent, Bodrum
Founded in 2011, this Ortakent confectioner is the Bodrum peninsula's own Turkish delight and candy producer, flavouring its lokum with the region's tangerine and mixed fruits. Alongside the sweets it makes jams, tangerine-scented cologne and soaps in the Bodrum tradition.
Best for Bodrum tangerine Turkish delight and jams
New Industrial Site, Edirne
Founded in 1997, Edmis makes Edirne's decorative fruit-shaped soaps alongside herbal, loofah and sponge bars from a workshop in the city's industrial district. The catalogue extends to bath bombs, lokum and almond paste, often packaged as gift baskets.
Best for Edirne fruit-shaped decorative soaps
Edirne
Star Mis Sabunculuk hand-shapes and colours Edirne's mis meyve sabunu, the fruit-scented soaps that trace to seventeenth-century Ottoman craft. Bars come in fruit forms with musk, amber and rose scents, sold as the region's PGI-protected decorative soap.
Best for Hand-made scented fruit soaps
Spice Bazaar, Eminönü, Istanbul
Arifoğlu's shop at No. 31 inside the Mısır Çarşısı, the Spice Bazaar in Eminönü, is one of the family brand's stores. Shelves run through whole and ground spices, blends for meat or fish, a world cuisines series and herbal teas from green tea to mixed herbs. Honey and propolis sit alongside cold-pressed herbal oils. Herbal soaps and food supplements complete a range that runs to several hundred lines.
Best for Turkish spices, herbal teas and natural remedies
Tophane, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Traditional Turkish towels, soaps, and bathrobes in Tophane near Kılıç Ali Paşa Hamamı. Authentic quality at reasonable prices. The shop has a warm, welcoming atmosphere and knowledgeable staff.
Best for Traditional Turkish towels, soaps
Mardin / Türkiye
Founder Halil Amca has made pistachio-oil bıttım soap in Artuklu, Mardin since 1995, continuing a dried-goods trade he entered at age nine. The shop also sells a seven-mixture Special Dibek Coffee and almond sugar.
Best for Seven-mixture Special Dibek Coffee and almond sugar
Halil Amca was born in Mardin in 1959 and started in the dried-goods trade at nine years old, continuing work passed down father to son in the family. The soap that now carries his reputation came later: he began producing bıttım soap, made from pure pistachio oil boiled with additive materials, in 1995, using his own resources and methods rather than an inherited recipe. That soap sits alongside two other regional specialities the shop makes itself, a Special Dibek Coffee sold as a seven-mixture blend, and almond sugar offered in several variations, including a cinnamon version and one marketed under the name ghost almond sugar. The business operates from a single storefront on Mardin's 1. Cadde in the Artuklu district, and pairs that physical shop with an online store promising two-day shipping across Turkey. The company's own materials date the operation to the 1960s, while Halil Amca's personal account places his start in dried goods a decade later, in 1968, before the soap line began in 1995, a gap the business does not reconcile on its own site, but one consistent with a family trade that predates the individually branded soap product it is best known for today.
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