The UN's cultural organisation added Aleppo's famous soap to its intangible cultural heritage list Tuesday with Syria's second city again wracked by war. Artisans have brewed olive and laurel oil in ...

These soaps are made using traditional soap-making techniques, and it's all done by hand. Pearl Soap is a company based in Syria, it has been making Aleppo soap since 1945. The soaps are made ...

SANTENY, France (Reuters) - A Syrian soapmaker who fled Aleppo after the factory he worked in was bombed has set up shop in a Paris suburb, reviving a tradition he says dates back millennia. Hassan ...

For a little while, before people had hardened to stories of Syrian refugees, Jihan and the Ghar Collective were making $3,000 a month, selling soap. It was enough to help support 50 families in ...

ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Swaddled in white towels, the Mansour and Wafai families sat in an arched alcove of Aleppo's Bab al-Ahmar public bathhouse, reviving their once-weekly tradition after years ...

Artisans have been using the same methods from 3,000 years to make the famous Aleppo soap - Copyright AFP/File - Artisans have been using the same methods from 3,000 ...