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How to make Castile Soap, Full-boiling, No-salting
By: Hani Smaik Date: July 29, 2019, 5:28 am
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History:
The origins of Castile soap go back to the Levant, where Aleppo
soap-makers have made hard soaps based on olive and laurel oil
for millennia. Early soap-makers in England did not have easy
access to laurel oil and therefore dropped it from their
formulations, thereby creating an olive-oil soap now known as
Castile soap.
Ingredients:
Traditional Aleppo soap is made with olive oil (80 %), laurel
berry oil (20%), water and lye.
Process:
Traditional Aleppo soap (also called Ghar Soap in the Middle
East. “Ghar” means Laurel) is made by the "Full-Boiling
Process". The Olive Oil is brought into the pan and heated, the
Lye Solution is being added to the hot oil gradually and the
boiling is continued. While the mixture is being boiled, soap
granules start to from, and they dissolve again in the liquid.
Boiling-time:
The boiling-time mainly depends on the amount of water that is
used to dissolve the lye. It’s estimated that 1.5 kilos of water
is being used - to dissolve the lye - with 1 kilo of oil.
Boiling may last 7 up to 10 hours for the soap reaction to
finish.
Using more water though prolongs the time of boiling that is
required to finish the soap. To a certain extent, more water,
more lye and more boiling produces harder, more foaming and more
stable soap. The water amount may be increased up to 3 kilos (to
1 kilo Oil), and the boiling time may last up to three days!
After several hours of boiling, the soap granules increase, and
they start to form a thick and consistent mass of soap, leaving
a liquid below it. The soap is skimmed and it’s placed into the
molds, and the liquid is discarded. In the next day the soap
bars are removed from the molds and it’s left to dry and cure
for 3-6 months. While it is aging, the soap goes through several
chemical changes. The free alkaline content of the soap (the
alkaline which did not react with the oil during saponification)
breaks down upon slow reaction with air. The moisture content of
the soap is also reduced, making the soap hard and long lasting.
And lastly, the color of the outside of the soap turns a pale
gold, while the inside remains green.
Uses:
Aleppo soap can be used daily as soap for washing and
shampooing, as face mask, as shaving cream, and for bathing
infants and babies. Both Olive and Laurel oils are effective
cleanser. They have antibiotic, and anti-fungal properties. And
they can reduce inflammation of the muscles and joints.
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Re: How to make Castile Soap
By: guest2 Date: July 29, 2019, 8:21 pm
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Here is another source of information with lots of links on it
to check out!
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleppo_soap
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Re: How to make Castile Soap
By: Hani Smaik Date: July 29, 2019, 9:52 pm
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Thanks David, that was a very nice article. And it explains the
hot process brilliantly. "Boiling lasts three days while the oil
reacts with the lye and water to become a thick liquid soap."
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Re: How to make Castile Soap, Full-boiling, No-salting
By: Hani Smaik Date: July 31, 2019, 4:03 am
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Hi David, I've just made few corrections on the previous post,
so that it has the information from the two articles and from my
own experience.
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Re: How to make Castile Soap, Full-boiling, No-salting
By: Boilerman Date: August 2, 2019, 2:05 pm
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This sounds great. I have heard of Aleppo soap frequently in my
research. Would like to try it if I can find some laurel berry
oil.
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Re: How to make Castile Soap, Full-boiling, No-salting
By: Hani Smaik Date: August 2, 2019, 6:00 pm
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Yes Cody, (Aleppo) I think mean (Halab) in Arabic. It's a city
in Syria next to us (Jordan) where Aleppo soap comes from. I
think that with Olive Oil, (Ghar) which is Laurel makes an
amazing soap. We don't have original Laurel oil here. So I've
extracted the oil using the ground leaves and add it to soap. I
could't stand the smell at that time while working with it. It's
really strong and has a strange effect. I think that it has a
psychoactive effect too. And the color that comes out while
working is really brilliant. It's golden green.
This is quote from Google:
" In addition to decorative use, the leaves and oil are used to
make medicine. Sweet bay is used to treat cancer and gas;
stimulate bile flow; and cause sweating. Some people apply sweet
bay to the scalp for dandruff. It is also put on the skin for
pain, especially muscle and joint pain (rheumatism)."
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