Related history of cold-made handmade soap

The art of soap originated from ancient Babylonians. According to the inscription, the ancient Babylonians made something similar to soap around 2800 BC. Traces similar to soap can also be found in ancient Greece. At first, the ancient Greeks put olive oil on their bodies and washed their skin with water. Gauls are the ancestors of making soap. They call it "sapo". At that time, soap was an ointment-like substance containing animal fat and plant ash (alkaline), which could be used in cosmetics or topical medicinal water for treating dermatoses. When the method of making Sapo was gradually introduced to the Mediterranean region, Arabs were the first people to improve Sapo from olive oil and soda into hard soap and make it in large quantities. Especially in 18 and 19 centuries, soap industry began to appear in several Mediterranean cities, such as Genoa in northwest Italy, Alicante in Spain and Marseille, a seaport on the Mediterranean coast in southeast France. The soap we use today was originally produced in Savan, near Genoa, Italy.

Marseille built its first soap factory in 1370. Today, L 'Occitane, an ancient plant soap expert in Provence, southern France, is still using the ancient manufacturing technology to produce Marseille soap, which is mainly made of olive oil. After saponification, salting-out, processing, curing, drying and molding, the proportion of vegetable oil needed is as high as 72%, which has become the high quality guarantee of traditional Marseille soap. Pure quality, mild cleaning effect, and environmental protection demands of natural decomposition are once again popular in contemporary Europe.