Soap-making
Nabulsi soap is a type of castile soap produced only in Nablus in the West Bank. An olive oil-based soap, it is made up of three primary ingredients: virgin olive oil, water, and a sodium compound. Nabulsi workers who make the soap are proud of its unique smell, which they see as a signifier of the quality and purity of its ingredients.
Long reputed to be a fine product, since as early as the 10th century, Nabulsi soap has been exported across the Arab world and even to Europe. Though the number of soap factories has plummeted from a peak of thirty in the 19th century to only two today, efforts to preserve this important part of Palestinian and Nabulsi cultural heritage continue.
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