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Early soapmakers in the Mediterranean area did not have easy access to laurel oil and therefore dropped it from their formulations, thereby creating an olive oil-based soap now known as Castile soap. Castile soap is so called because it was produced on a large scale in the territories of the Crown of
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brought Aleppo soap back to Europe in the 11th century, based on the claim that the earliest soap made in Europe was just after the Crusades, but in fact, the Greeks knew about soap in the first century AD and
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and impurities to settle out. While Aleppo soap tends to be green, this produced what was probably the first white hard soap, which hardened further as it aged, without losing its whiteness, forming
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caused a public-relations campaign to be established, featuring washerwomen showing how much more effective local soaps were than Castile soap. The sale of a monopoly in
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England to a Catholic company caused a great uproar, ending with the Castile soap company eventually being stripped of the monopoly.
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Adding brine to the boiled liquor made the soap float to the surface, where the soap-boiler could skim it off, leaving the excess
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has no references to "Castile soap" earlier than 1616. In his article "A short history of soap", John Hunt maintains that
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described soap and soapmaking in c. 300 AD. Following the Crusades, production of this soap extended to the whole
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Castile, from where it was exported to numerous places in Europe, mainly during the
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Soap Naturally: ingredients, methods, and recipes for natural handmade soap
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appear in the London port books of 1567–1568, though the
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In the 17th century, the soap caused controversy in
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