What is Marseille soap?
Marseille Soap is the oldest hygenic soap used in France. This soap is characterised by its method of production, the fact that it is prepared in a cauldron, as inspired by Aleppo soap. This soap is consists of 72% plant oils, something that sets this soap apart from the rest!
Why choose La Maison du savon de Marseille?
La Maison du Savon de Marseille invites you to discover the benefits of traditional liquid soap. High in fat and known for their moisturizing and cleansing properties acids, our liquid soaps are enriched with organic olive oil helps preserve the skin from drying.
Why is Savon de Marseille soap not patented?
Because there is no patent of protection laws in place. Meaning anyone, anywhere can make soap and call it Savon de Marseille . If you want to buy the traditional Marseille soap there are only four genuine soap manufacturers that make the legendry olive oil-based soap.
Why choose Salon-de-Provence for your soap?
Its port was perfect for developing the soap trade and the flourishing soap industry spread to Salon-de-Provence. At the time, soap was manufactured by oil makers.
Produced following the traditional process, the Marseille soap is made in one of the lasts factories approved by the Marseille soap professional union (UPSM). From the end of the 17th century, a strict regulation of its manufacture allows soap to acquire the image of a high quality product made from an emulsion of oil and soda.
How do you make savon de Marseille?
It takes our Maitre de Savon (soapmaster) two weeks to make Savon de Marseille. The delicate mixture of olive oil, alkaline ash from sea plants and Mediterranean Sea salted water are heated for ten days in antique cauldrons, then poured into open pits where it hardens.
What is savsavon de Marseille?
Savon de MARSEILLE. The delicate mixture of olive oil, alkaline ash from sea plants and Mediterranean Sea salted water are heated for ten days in antique cauldrons, then poured into open pits where it hardens.