Aleppo Soap Recipe Hot Process

In the 11th century the crusaders brought aleppo soap back to europe starting a centuries long love affair with the olive oil and laurel oil based soap.

Aleppo soap recipe hot process. The centuries old tradition of aleppo soap making which uses no chemicals or other additives involves secret family recipes handed down for generations. Aleppo inspired soap recipe. The number of molds that you ll need will depend on how large they are. I chose this amount because of the size of my mold.

However because of the recent political and economic turmoil the manufacturing process of aleppo soap both in syria and around the world has significantly declined. However you can absolutely play around with the oil amounts in any soap recipe as long as you run the final amounts through a lye calculator to make sure you are using a safe amount of lye. I am half syrian and wanted to do this soap as a tribute to my fallen heritage. The recipe makes about 10 ounces 283 grams of soap.

I used the tall and skinny mold from bramble berry. Aleppo is where all soap originally comes from and is now permanently altered. This ancient soap was once primarily made in aleppo syria. This recipe produces about 30 oz of soap.

Smooth the soap in place with a spatula for an even surface. We explored some amazing historical hot process moments but let s explore one of my favorite soap recipes one that has existed for over 1 300 years aleppo soap. There is a bit of confusion outside of the aleppo soap making community about the exact technique and why the soap is boiled for so long. It probably doesn t use the hot process method as we know it today though but rather uses a boiled soap process in which the oils are boiled with the lye over a number of days.

I used 1 5 times my lye in water. 4 oz 113 4 grams extra virgin olive oil 80 1 oz 28 35 grams laurel berry fruit oil 20 0 65 oz 18 4 grams lye sodium hydroxide 5 superfat. Aleppo soap is normally made using a type of hot process technique. I used a 5 superfat and discounted the water quite a bit.

Oils and fits into a bramble berry 10 silicone loaf mold. I didn t add any color or scent. I always always run my numbers. We ll simply make a cold process soap but you can hot process it as well.

Add the soap mixture to the mold s.