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Laurel soap lather
SuperfattedA dense, creamy lather that cleans without stripping
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It makes my skin feel clean but moisturized too
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Silver-Infused Aleppo Bar

Laurel: Aleppo Soap Bar

★★★★★ 4.7 46 reviews
Won’t Strip Skin 17% Laurel Oil Sensitive Skin Shaving Bar
$17.00
200 g / 7 oz · hollow-core bar · lasts 4 to 6 weeks

An Aleppo soap bar built the old way, around 17% laurel berry fruit oil, the ingredient every Castile bar left out. Laurel oil is naturally antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory; the superfatted olive and coconut base leaves free oils in the finished bar that coat your skin as you wash, so it cleans without the tight, stripped feeling. Ionic nano-silver keeps the bar pure without synthetic preservatives. The hollow-core design cures evenly for a hard, long-lasting bar from first use to last sliver. Doubles as a shaving bar. Five ingredients, nothing else.

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How to Use
Daily body wash:
  1. Work the bar between wet hands into a creamy lather (3 to 4 swirls is plenty; the high oil content means you need less than typical soap)
  2. Massage onto skin and rinse with warm water
  3. Skin should feel soft, never tight
As a shaving bar: Wet the bar and glide it directly on skin, no shaving cream needed. The unsaponified oils give a razor glide most shaving products can’t match. Works for face, legs, anywhere. For best results: Follow with Berry Boreal Bod on damp skin to lock in moisture. For the softest skin, exfoliate once a week with Wintry Fix before using the bar.
Full Ingredient List
Key actives: 17% laurel berry fruit oil (naturally antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory) in a superfatted base of organic olive and coconut oil, with ionic nano-silver for natural preservation and a touch of organic lemongrass.

Full list: Saponified Organic Oils of Olea Europaea (Olive) and Cocos Nucifera (Coconut); Ionic Nano-Silver Solution (20 ppm); Saponified Organic Oils of Laurus Nobilis (Laurel Berry Fruit) and Cymbopogon Citratus (Lemongrass).

Five ingredients. Nothing else.
Storage
Use a draining soap dish, or hang the bar by its center hole. The hollow-core design dries evenly, but the bar lasts longest when it can air-dry from all sides between uses. Never let it sit in standing water.
Common Questions
Will it dry out my skin?
No. The superfatted base leaves free oils in the bar that coat your skin as you wash, so it cleans without the tight, stripped feeling. Most customers say skin feels soft after rinsing, never squeaky.
Can I shave with it?
Yes. Wet the bar and glide it directly on skin; the unsaponified oils give a slick, protective glide, no separate shaving cream needed. Works for face and legs.
Is it gentle enough for sensitive skin?
It was designed with sensitive skin as the primary use case: hypoallergenic, with no synthetic fragrance, dyes, or sulfates. Customers with eczema, psoriasis, and reactive skin regularly say it doesn’t aggravate their condition.
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In their own words

What customers keep writing

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“I was very skeptical when I got this soap. Works great, skin feel smooth, soft and clean”

Amus Verified buyer
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“The scent is very calming, as with all your products.”

Beth D. Verified buyer
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“leaves the skin with a satiny feeling”

Jennifer S. Verified buyer
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“I feel so clean and never dry every time I use it”

Sasha W. Verified buyer
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“leaves my skin feeling moisturized but clean”

Harriet B. Verified buyer
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“keeps my skin from drying out”

Winifred J. Verified buyer
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“I love using this soap because it is very gentle”

Phyllis C. Verified buyer
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Three actives, full potency

The ingredient every Castile bar left out

Silver was our first preservation innovation, years before cold storage: ionic silver and laurel berry oil keep this bar clean without a synthetic preservative system. Three actives reach your skin doing exactly what they were chosen for. Tap a card to see the mechanism.

Antimicrobial & soothing
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17% Laurel Berry Oil

The ingredient Castile left out

The ingredient that separates Aleppo soap from every Castile bar on the market. Laurel oil is naturally antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory, rich in the oleic and linoleic fatty acids your skin’s barrier needs to stay intact. At 17%, this bar carries enough to protect and replenish while you wash, not just after. High enough to work, low enough to lather well.

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Cleans, doesn’t strip
Laurel soap lather
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Superfatted Olive + Coconut

Free oils that stay behind

The olive oil base follows the original Aleppo tradition: deeply moisturizing, with a high unsaponified oil content. Superfatted means we use more oil than the lye can convert, so free oils stay in the finished bar and coat your skin as you wash; coconut oil brings the lather. It cleans through surfactant action while laying down a thin protective layer, which is why skin feels soft after rinsing, not stripped.

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Stays pure, no chemicals
Ionic silver, abstract active macro
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Ionic Nano-Silver (20 ppm)

Silver does the preserving

Infused into the lye water during production, silver ions give the bar and your skin broad-spectrum antimicrobial protection. This is what stands in for the chemical preservatives conventional bars rely on to keep their oils from turning. Silver was Wild Ice’s first preservation innovation, years before cold storage, and it remains one of the most effective natural antimicrobials available.

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Mila, founder of Wild Ice Botanicals

Fresh was never optional

I grew up in the Soviet Union watching my grandmother make skincare from her garden. It worked because it was fresh. There was no other option.

In 2018, I began cold-storing every ingredient and finished product. But years before cold storage, there was silver: this bar was our first preservation innovation, keeping its oils pure without a synthetic system. A different method, born of the same refusal to compromise.

Every product is made in our studio, in small weekly batches. I’ve worn every formula through three pregnancies. Every bar and bottle is one I’d use on my own family.

— Mila, Founder
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Common questions about Laurel

Frequently Asked Questions

The scent is earthy and natural, somewhat reminiscent of peat moss or fresh clay. That comes from the laurel oil and a small amount of organic lemongrass essential oil. There are no synthetic fragrances, no perfume oils, and no added scent of any kind. If you’re used to heavily fragranced bars, this will be an adjustment; most customers grow to associate the scent with genuinely clean skin.
No. Most soap strips your skin’s oils and leaves that tight, dry feeling behind. The superfatted base here leaves free oils in the bar that coat your skin as you wash, so it cleans while depositing a thin protective layer. Reviewers consistently describe skin that feels clean but soft after rinsing, not stripped.
With proper drainage between uses, most customers get 4 to 6 weeks from a single bar. The hollow-core design extends usable life by preventing the wet center that causes conventional bars to deteriorate early. If you let the bar sit in a pool of water, it will soften faster than it should.
Traditional Aleppo soap has a structural problem: the center never fully cures, so once you wear through the outer shell you hit a soft, mushy middle. We removed the core entirely. The hollow bar cures evenly from every direction into a uniformly hard, long-lasting bar, and it is enlarged to make up for the removed material, so you get more usable soap, not less. The center hole also lets you hang it to dry.
This bar was designed with sensitive skin as the primary use case; caring for our own babies was a chief motivation. It is hypoallergenic and free of synthetic fragrance, dyes, and sulfates, and the unsaponified oils coat and protect rather than strip and irritate. Customers with eczema, psoriasis, and reactive skin regularly report that it doesn’t aggravate their condition.
You can, and many customers do. The formula is gentle enough. For dedicated facial cleansing, though, B-Meltee is formulated specifically for the face with niacinamide and a cooling botanical blend. Laurel is designed as a body bar first.
Ionic nano-silver and laurel oil are both natural antimicrobials, so the bar stays pure without the synthetic preservatives most soaps use to keep their oils from turning. Store it on a draining dish or hang it by its center hole between uses and it will keep beautifully.
Aleppo soap is the oldest manufactured soap still in production, made the same way for over a thousand years: olive oil saponified with lye, enriched with laurel berry fruit oil, then aged. Castile came later, when soap-makers who couldn’t source laurel used olive oil alone and called it luxury. Olive oil alone cleans, but it doesn’t deposit the antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory compounds that laurel oil does. That difference is why Aleppo soap has been used for centuries on reactive, easily irritated skin.
No synthetic fragrances, no dyes, no sulfates, no parabens, no phthalates, no chemical preservatives, and no animal-derived ingredients. The antimicrobial protection comes from silver ions and laurel oil, not from conventional preservative chemistry. Laurel is 100% vegan and cruelty-free.
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Laurel: Aleppo Soap Bar4.7★ · 46 reviews · $17.00
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Customer Reviews

4.7 Based on 46 reviews

Customers say it cleans without stripping: satiny, soft skin, and a bar gentle enough for eczema-prone family members.