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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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