How to make "El-Tahhan" soap

The laurel soap is manufactured in the old traditional way that is passed down through generations, which go through several stages of manufacturing to the final product.

First stage (oil painting):

The olive oil, which is called “terminal oil”, is extracted from squeezing olive again after extracting the table oil from it in the first juice. The oil is placed in a large container in the ground, which burns the fire, and adds water and sodium water to it. This process continues for two days under constant observation until the oil reacts with the water and the sodium hydroxide, so that the soap becomes homogenous. Then add the laurel oil to the mixture and mix with it at the end of the boiling process, and leave a period of time until the final mixture lies.

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Second stage (casting):

The mixture is taken from the container and poured on a flat floor in the factory, where the mixture is poured on the tarpaulin. At this stage, the soap is a combination of green and viscous. The purpose of this phase is to cool and stiffen the mixture. This process takes between 15-24 hours in cooler weather).

 

Third Stage (Hacking):

After the textures dry slightly, the workers walk in flat wooden shoes bounded in their legs by walking over the mix and cut the soap into cubes of equal size. All the plates are then stamped manually with the factory logo, which is usually the ratio of laurel oil in the mixture. Collecting and accumulating soap plates in the shape of a telescopic tower allows air to pass within it, to help dry the soap cubes naturally, until they reach 6-7 months, when the soap passes through natural chemical changes, evaporates a good proportion of water, making it a long lasting soap, At this stage turns the color of the laurel soap from the outside to the golden color and from the inside remains green. Therefore, it is said about the soap prepared in this way (Aleppo gold).

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