Description

Fig & Cassis

Our Fig & Cassis soap is a classic fragrance combination, with sweet, fruity fig and dark blackcurrant.

Quite often the busiest stall on the craft market is the one selling hand-made soaps cut off the loaf. After that, the secret is in the display… be creative!

Loaves, shrink-wrapped with an outer label containing product information. If in doubt about label requirements please consult your local Trading Standards department.

PLEASE NOTE: Our Soap Bars are hand made and the colour may slightly vary from the pictures shown.

Take a look also to our Sleepy Lavender

History

Ancient Middle East

The earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap-like materials dates back to around 2800 BC in ancient Babylon.
A formula for soap consisting of: water, alkali, and cassia oil.
It was written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC.
The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 BC) indicates the ancient Egyptians bathed regularly and combined animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to create a soap-like substance. Egyptian documents mention a similar substance used in the preparation of wool for weaving.

Box for Amigo del Obrero (Worker’s Friend) soap from the 20th century, a part of the Museo del Objeto collection

Ancient China

A detergent similar to soap manufactured in ancient China from the seeds of Gleditsia sinensis. In addition, another traditional detergent is a mixture of pig pancreas and plant ash called “Zhu yi zi”. True soap, made of animal fat, did not appear in China until the modern era. After all, soap-like detergents were not as popular as ointments and creams.