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Crafting traditional olive oil soap in the United States just like Palestine and Greece.

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The Tuqan factory in Nablus is the oldest survivor of this once-prominent industry. But if you are in United States you can enjoy the same olive oil soap , Natural  handcrafted made in small batches ,  Olive oil ,  like  wine, shows extreme variation in flavour and quality depending on fruit variety , Egypt imported  olive oil  from  Palestine  and  Crete and we use the EVOO from Crete in our Olive Oil Soaps ..  Olive Oil Soaps –   Using olive oil for skin is an ancient beauty secret, discovered thousands of years ago. Once called “liquid gold” by Homer, olive oil was a commonly used skin care product by Phoenicians Egyptians, Romans, and Greeks. Olive oil has vitamin E and oleic acid, which are both beneficial to the skin. Olive oil’s oleic acid helps to soften the skin, and the vitamin E improves the elasticity of the skin… The earliest recipes for Aleppo soap date back to 2400 B.C. Local villagers harvest the olives and laurel berries, which grow wild in the forests