Savon de Marseille (Marseille Soap) pure olive oil soap from the South of France.
Meena says
“I am truely amazed with this soap. First I loved that it is wrapped in paper and is environmentally friendly. It smells very mild somewhat like oilve oil. I used it and my skin felt soft and clean and it left no residue. It is very mild soap and moisturised my skin because of the olive oil in it, I actually donot need any body lotion after I used this soap.”
Mona says
“This soap is hand crafted in Marseille, France and takes two weeks to make this soap. This soap claims to be the World famous, authentic Savon de Marseille. I loved irregular the shape of this soap, the irregular shape is because it is hand made and not machine made. You get this soap as a large bar and so you have to cut it in the desired shape before you use it. I bought this soap in the 1000 gram block size, and I cut it up into four pieces of 250 gs each so it’s easier to use.”
The company says
“In the Middle Ages, big blocks of gentle soap were first crafted in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille with olive oil from local groves, marine ash and sea salted water. The quality of these soaps were immediately famous throughout Europe and in 1688 French law declared that only soaps made according to certain ancient methods could bear the important mark Savon de Marseille. Now the most prized of all soaps in the world, our Savon de Marseille is still crafted by hand, in Marseille, just as it has been for hundreds of years. It takes the Maitre de Savon (soapmaster) two weeks to make Marseille Soap. The purest ingredients (mentioned above) are heated for ten days in antique cauldrons. Know-how passed down through the generations will reveal to the soapmaster the right moment to pour the mixture into open pits where it slowly hardens. Cut into cubes and stamped, without machines of any kind, the soaps are then set out to dry in the sun and cool winds. Savon de Marseille (also known as “Marseille Soap”) is once again being rediscovered for its extraordinary purity, gentle skin care and ecological value. Savon de Marseille is recommended by dermatologists throughout the world for dry or sensitive skin, eczema and other ailments. In France it has been trusted for generations to cleanse everything from linens to little faces. Marseille Soap is totally biodegradable, requires little packaging and its manufacture is environmentally friendly. Authentic Marseille Soap is stamped with its weight in grams – a practice left over from years ago which allowed households to compare prices and plan their inventories. No soap is “greener.” In France they are sold piled high on open-air market tables like produce, wrapped in craft paper. Your Savon de Marseille will be delivered without plastic packaging, carefully wrapped in paper stamped with the famous marks to prove its authenticity.”
