Description

Lemon Soap Loaf

Lemon Soap Loaf, is said to have firming properties and is perfect for cleansing your face and may help to control acne, spots and impurities in general. It also revitalises your skin and may help reduce wrinkles. However, due to its acidity it must be used with caution for those with sensitive skin.

Olive Oil soaps, one of the first vegetable made soaps. They, hand-made using traditional cold process making method and are also SLS and parabens free.

The natural fat may help to provide protection, improve skin tone, softness and youth of skin through restructuring oil action.

Soap 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 soaps, hand-made and the colour or design may slightly vary from the pictures shown.

Take a look also to our  Orange Olive Oil Artisan Soap Loaf

History

Ancient Middle East

The earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap-like materials dates back to around 2800 BC in ancient Babylon.

Basically, a formula for soap consisting of:  water, alkali, and cassia oil.

It, 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.