Description

Yorkshire Violet

Our Yorkshire Violet soap, fragranced with the sweet, heady scent of violets and made with soap squares right here in Yorkshire!

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 Tea Tree and Fresh Mint

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.