That’s not just because of its centuries-long history in Palestine’s West Bank, where Al-Jamal’s 100% olive oil face and body soap has been manufactured in small batches since antiquity.

Castile soap is a type of soap made of natural oils, such as olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, hemp oil, or jojoba oil.

In the West Bank city of Nablus, a man who learned from his father, who learned from his father, mixes virgin olive oil pressed from ... these creamy bricks of castile soap. For the diaspora ...

the abundance of olive trees in the Mediterranean area led to the development of soaps based on olive oil and lye from the ashes of the barilla, a common plant. The soap shown here is Castile soap, an ...

We asked two cleaning experts to share their top tips on ways to use Castile soap around the house. Castile soap is a gentle alkaline cleanser made from vegetable oils such as olive, coconut ...