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TADÉ PAYS DU LEVANT
✔️ Palm Free, Colour Free Preservative Free ✔️ Sceptic Safe ✔️ Cruelty Free ✔️ 100% Natural Ingredients ✔️ unwrapped ✔️ Hypoallergenic
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STANDARD DELIVERY - £3.95 (tracked 48hr)
NEXT DAY DELIVERY* Free over £50 or £4.95
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Made in Aleppo City, Syria
🟢 Suitable for all skin types
🔵 Made in Cauldrons
🔵 Olive Oil
🔵 Laurel (Bay) Oil
🔵 Hypoallergenic
🔵 Face, Body, Hair & Laundry
🔵 The worlds oldest documented soap
🟤 French Soaps Hero Product
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This traditional soap contains just four natural ingredients — olive oil, laurel berry oil, water, and sodium hydroxide — with no added colours, fragrances, or preservatives.
Olive oil provides moisture and softness, laurel oil purifies and soothes, and the result is a pure, biodegradable soap suitable for all skin types, including sensitive skin.
Timeless, pure, and hand crafted in Aleppo City, this authentic Aleppo Soap is made following a 2,000-year-old artisanal method in a cauldron — one of the oldest soapmaking traditions in the world. Handcrafted using only olive oil, laurel berry oil, water, and lye, it delivers a unique balance of purity, protection, and natural care.
Rich in olive oil, the soap gently softens, nourishes, and protects the skin’s natural barrier, while laurel oil brings purifying, soothing benefits thanks to its high concentration of essential fatty acids, antioxidants, and vitamins. The result is a mild, hypoallergenic soap that helps calm irritation and balance even the most sensitive or reactive skin.
Ideal for daily cleansing of face, body, and hair for the most demanding skins
Suitable for handwashing delicate fabrics and lingerie
Can be dissolved for use in laundry or floor cleaning
Gentle, biodegradable, and entirely free from synthetic additives
A soap unlike any other — simple, sustainable, and steeped in history
olea europaea (olive) fruit oil, aqua (water), laurus nobilis (laurel) fruit oil, sodium hydroxide
Origine 100% naturelle
| Ingredient | Source / Origin | Function / Role | Sustainability & Benefits |
| Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil | Natural plant oil, pressed from the fruit of the olive tree | The primary base oil used to make traditional soaps. Olive oil produces a rich, creamy lather that cleans gently while nourishing and protecting the skin. | A renewable, biodegradable ingredient. Sustainably farmed Mediterranean olives support traditional agriculture and low-impact production. |
| Aqua (Water) | Natural | Used in the saponification process to dissolve lye (sodium hydroxide) and blend oils into soap. | Neutral, biodegradable, and essential to the soapmaking process. |
| Laurus Nobilis (Laurel) Fruit Oil | Natural plant oil extracted from laurel berries | Adds antiseptic, soothing, and restorative properties, giving Aleppo-style soap its distinctive herbal scent and skin-purifying qualities. | Sourced from the laurel tree, a renewable Mediterranean crop often harvested by hand. Naturally biodegradable and eco-friendly. |
| Sodium Hydroxide | Mineral-derived alkali | The natural saponifying agent — it reacts with the oils to create soap and glycerin. None remains in the finished product once saponification is complete. | Essential to all traditional soapmaking; fully neutralised in production, leaving a safe, natural, biodegradable soap. |
In the bath, in the shower, apply to damp skin and leave on for a few moments before rinsing well. Aleppo soaps do not foam much because they do not contain palm or coconut oil, but it is possible to create foam using a crepe or sisal glove. Can also be used as a purifying mask and make-up remover for the face. Alternatively keep in your linen cupboards to repels moths. Avoid contact with eyes. DERMATOLOGICALLY TESTED
Tadé was founded 29 years ago through a love of history and the
Levantine Mediterranean region.
Aleppo soap is the oldest form of soap in the world and the forerunner of Traditional Savon de Marseille. Thaddée de Slizewicz, the founder, is dedicated to perpetuating the wonders of Aleppo soap in a sustainable and ethical way, investing in the region, infrastructure and people involved. Now employing 15 full time team in Syria and a further 10 in France, 'authenticity, pleasure and elegance' underpins their direction and ethos. In 2023 they made 30tons of Pure Aleppo Soap and we are honoured to bring them to, and represent them in the UK.
Made between December and March, immediately following the Olive harvest, the Olive and Laurel Oils are saponified in a cauldron over 7-14days then the paste is poured on the floor and left to set. It is stamped and cut then left to dry for 9 months before being packed and shipped to France.
Call us old fashioned if you want. We are real humans who love our landline telephone.
If you have any questions about our products or your order, please call us T.01423 803080 or email bonjour@frenchsoaps.co.uk.
You can also read our FAQs here
DELIVERY
All orders are sent from North Yorkshire without any additional taxes or charges.
ORDERS OVER £50
FREE Priority Delivery with Royal Mail 24hr* or DHL Next Working Day.
Order by 1pm Mon - Fri for DHL.
Order by 4pm Mon- Fri or 11am Saturday for Royal Mail
Royal Mail: Saturday is a standard working day. Sunday delivery: They deliver in most areas on a Sunday for orders collected Saturday lunchtime and sent on 24hr tracked.
DHL deliver Monday - Friday, at peak seasonal times and in some areas they deliver Saturday, this is not something in our control and do not advise you to rely on this. Use Royal Mail for weekend delivery.
Signed for - this is the same as Royal Mail tracked 24hr with the inclusion of a signature on delivery. These parcels will not be left if you are out.
ORDERS UNDER £50
STANDARD DELIVERY Royal Mail, 3-5 working days: £3.95
PRIORITY DELIVERY Royal Mail tracked 24hr or DHL Next Working Day: £4.95
LOCAL DELIVERY
FREE - We delivery locally on a Thursday. Order value above £15 for free delivery. If you shipping postcode is within our catchment this will be offered to you at the checkout.
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*ISLANDS & HIGHLANDS & NI Tracked Royal Mail 24hr or 48hr: Deliveries may take longer, this is beyond our control.
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COLLECTION
FREE from our warehouse in North Yorskhire.
Monday - Friday 8:30- 4:30pm and Saturday morning 8:30 - 11:30am.
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Quite a large chunk of soap on a rope which easily hangs from the shower tap. My husband has sensitive skin which tends to flake and since using this he has had a lot less problems. Lasts quite well and what we have done is stick the remnants of the old piece to the new soap..works a treat!
Truly incredible quality soap. Highly recommended for any skin type but especially for sensitive skin!
I have sent my review already. Beautiful soaps, excellent service, would order again.
Did not like smell
As always fabulous soap and excellent service x
Love this soap. Repeat purchase. First one bought in Marseille! I used have all sorts of sensitivity problems due to additives in liquid soaps and hand creams. Just use this soap now and my hands are in excellent condition.
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