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Silver-Infused Aleppo Bar
Laurel: Aleppo Soap 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. 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:
- 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)
- Massage onto skin and rinse with warm water
- Skin should feel soft, never tight
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 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.
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.
Shipping & returns
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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.
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.
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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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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What customers keep writing
★★★★★
“I was very skeptical when I got this soap. Works great, skin feel smooth, soft and clean”
Amus Verified buyer
★★★★★
“The scent is very calming, as with all your products.”
Beth D. Verified buyer
★★★★★
“leaves the skin with a satiny feeling”
Jennifer S. Verified buyer
★★★★★
“I feel so clean and never dry every time I use it”
Sasha W. Verified buyer
★★★★★
“leaves my skin feeling moisturized but clean”
Harriet B. Verified buyer
★★★★★
“keeps my skin from drying out”
Winifred J. Verified buyer
★★★★★
“I love using this soap because it is very gentle”
Phyllis C. Verified buyerThe ingredient every Castile bar left out
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
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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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Antimicrobial care
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Ionic Nano-Silver (20 ppm)
Silver for your skin
Infused into the lye water during production, silver ions give your skin broad-spectrum antimicrobial protection.
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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.
Every product is made in our studio, in small weekly batches. I’ve worn every formula through four pregnancies. Every bar and bottle is one I’d use on my own family.
— Mila, Founder
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Frequently Asked Questions
The scent is earthy and natural, somewhat reminiscent of peat moss or fresh clay. The scent comes from laurel oil and a small amount of organic lemongrass essential oil, with no synthetic fragrance.
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.
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. Laurel is 100% vegan and cruelty-free.
Laurel: Aleppo Soap Bar4.7★ · 46 reviews · $17.00
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.