How Aleppo Soap Is Made (and Can You Make It at Home?)
How Aleppo soap is made, step by step: the winter cooking season, hand cutting, stamping, months of curing, and how to make an Aleppo-style bar at home safely.
The journal
Journal
Choose your formula, care for your bar, and discover the craft behind Aleppo soap.
- Craft
- Ingredients
Aleppo Soap Ingredients: What Is Really in a Traditional Bar
What is in Aleppo soap? The four traditional ingredients, what sodium olivate and glycerin mean on a label, and the extras that give away a bar that is fake.
- Care
Aleppo Soap for Hair: How People Use It and What to Expect
Can you wash your hair with Aleppo soap? What pH research and hard water mean for bar soap on hair, how people do it, and who tends not to get...
- Buying guide
Where to Buy Real Aleppo Soap in the UK and EU (and What It Should Cost)
Where to buy real Aleppo soap in the UK and EU, what a bar should cost per 100 g in 2026, and the listing red flags that quickly give away...
- Ingredients
Laurel Oil Percentage in Aleppo Soap Explained: 0%, 10%, 20% or 40%?
What does the laurel percentage on Aleppo soap mean? Compare 0%, 10%, 20% and 40% bars by scent and price, and see exactly why more laurel costs more to make.
- Basics
Aleppo Soap Benefits: What Tradition Says and What Research Shows
Aleppo soap benefits, checked: what centuries of tradition say, what lab studies on olive and laurel oil found, and which popular claims have no real evidence.
- Buying guide
How to Spot Fake Aleppo Soap: 7 Signs of the Real Thing
Is your Aleppo soap real? Cut it, read the label, check the stamp and the price. These seven simple checks separate true Aleppo soap from cheap dyed imitations.
- Basics
What Is Aleppo Soap? The Complete Guide (2026)
What is Aleppo soap? Two oils, lye, water and 6-9 months of curing. See how it is made, what the laurel % means, and how to spot a real bar...
