Traditional Savon de Marseille – Olive Oil Soap on a Rope - 270g
Composition & Ingredients
Use & Suitability
Use & Suitability
Delivery & Service
Delivery & Service
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DELIVERY
All orders are sent from North Yorkshire without any additional taxes or charges.
We believe in transparent pricing.
Rather than increasing the price of every product to include "free" delivery, we keep our product prices as low as we can for every customer, every day.
Delivery charges help towards the cost of carefully packing and sending your order. Some parcels cost us less, others considerably more, particularly larger or heavier orders. We simply ask customers to make a fair contribution, rather than hiding those costs in the products themselves.
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.
- Size
- 270g
- Dimensions
- 10cm
- Natural origin
- 100% Natural Origin Ingredients
- Formulation
- Olive Oil
Traditional Savon de Marseille – Olive Oil Soap on a Rope - 270g
Traditional Savon de Marseille is proper soap, slowly cooked in large cauldrons using vegetable oils, soda, salt and water. It has no added fragrance, colour or preservatives, and the soda is consumed as the oils are turned into soap.
The 72% stamped into the bar refers to its net vegetable oil content after manufacture and is the traditional standard for Savon de Marseille.
It is also the most versatile soap in the world. Use it for washing your hands, face, body and hair, for shaving, or for cleaning makeup brushes and sponges. Rub it directly onto damp stains, collars and cuffs, use it to handwash clothes, or grate it into flakes and dissolve it for the washing machine.
Around your home it will wash dishes, sinks, worktops, cupboards, paintwork, windows and mirrors, as well as suitable floors. It can clean, silver, shoes and trainers, artists brushes, gardening tools and outdoor furniture, loosen a stubborn zip and help stop the bathroom mirror steaming up.
Then there are the traditional uses that sound less likely, but that customers continue to tell us work. Savon de Marseille is used on insect bites, bruises, to deter moths in wardrobes and keeping a piece under your pillow is an old French remedy for night cramps.
It is particularly useful for travel, camping and caravans. One small bar can be your body soap, laundry wash, washing-up soap, stain remover and general cleaner, with nothing to leak in your bag.
The bars, cubes, blocks and flakes are all the same soap, simply cut or shaved into different shapes and sizes. Choose a small bar for washing or travel, a traditional cube as an everyday all-rounder, a large block to cut at home, or ready-shaved flakes for laundry.
As Savon de Marseille is made in batches without added colour or stabilisers, some variation is completely normal. The oils, including differences between olive harvests, can affect the cooking and colour, while temperature and humidity during drying influence the texture and final finish. A pale or powdery bloom can also form as salts naturally move to the surface.
None of this affects the quality or usefulness of the soap. It is simply what happens when a traditional soap is allowed to vary rather than being altered to make every bar look identical.
This is what we call proper soap.
