The production season starts in winter after the olives harvest, when the soap-maker masters begin to produce Aleppo soaps, following an ancient and traditional method.
Olive oil, laurel oil, water and soda are mixed together and left to cook in copper cauldrons for twenty four hours.
The mixture is then cut into rough blocks by hand. The blocks are stocked to dry and mature for nine months under the open air vault of the soap workshop.
Karawan Aleppo soaps are produced following the traditional recipe based on full oils.
Different oils proportions can be found in Karawan Aleppo soap range: olive only or a various mix of olive and bay tree oils.
Aleppo soaps’ reputation is due to the properties of these noble oils.

Quality Aleppo soap 80% Olive 20% Laurel berry

• A balanced dosing between olive and laurel berry.
• A rebalancing treatment particularly suitable for the toilet of sensitive skins.
• It is also used for shaving.
• A tonic fragrance.
Karawan soaps are made exclusively with noble oils: pure olive or olive and laurel berry, mixed in various proportions.
The fame of Aleppo soap comes from the properties of these oils and from their traditional cooking.
The highest proportion of plant active ingredients, fatty acids and glycerin, which come naturally from the oils transformed into soap, gives the Karawan Aleppo soaps incomparable virtues.

Aleppo soap range extends
with our historical partner

Since its creation in 2004, Karawan authentic is engaged with its soap partner in Aleppo.
The recognized quality of Karawan soaps is the fruit of his know-how based on his ability to select noble oils of olive and laurel berry, on his fine knowledge of saponification and on his production tools.
Our loyalty to this partner has allowed us to maintain the quality of our soaps since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, while continuing to support a local artisanal economy.
The events had a significant impact on the manufacturing sites : most of downtown old Aleppo, where historical soap factories were, is destroyed. However, in the western districts, new means of production were organized to enable Aleppo to continue to enhance the economy of olive tree farming by continuing the production of soaps.
Our partner, part of whose family stayed in Aleppo, was able to reconstitute another technical team and reorganized a craft factory 70 km north of Aleppo, Turkey. There, the same climate, specific to the region, allows the soap to mature under the best conditions. We can thus secure the production and its routing, allowing the Aleppo citizens to stay close to their families.
Thanks to our strong and loyal partnership, we can still innovate while securing our values and our high quality requirement.
Karawan continues its original commitment to support craftpeople who maintain their ancestral activity, symbol of the rich and plural history of Aleppo, by adapting it to new production sites that remain in the Aleppo geographical area.
This is why Aleppo Karawan soaps mention Syria or Turkey as origin. In both cases, they are made with our historical partner, Aleppo master-soap maker, with the same ingredients and the same know-how.