Natural beard care with Aleppo soap is very much on trend …
Natural beard care with Aleppo soap
This soap is considered the oldest soap in the world and is a remnant from a time when there were no washing syndets or shampoos. It contains millennia of experience during which soapmakers in the Near East continually improved the recipe. Today Aleppo soap is said to have been produced almost unchanged for over a thousand years.
Above all in the beard community natural, plastic-free beard care with Aleppo soap has recently become increasingly popular. With it you can clean your beard in a natural, virtually chemical-free way. In addition, this soap is likely more sustainable and, above all, more environmentally friendly in production than any shampoo and most soaps.
What is in Aleppo soaps?
Aleppo soap is cooked by the hot-process method only from olive oil, laurel oil and soda ash in varying concentrations.
Some claim that natural soaps, which are almost exclusively made by the cold-process method, are just as good or even better. That is not generally true. Aleppo soap is not comparable to such soaps. While glycerin remains in cold-process soaps, it is removed in the hot-process method. What is branded as a disadvantage by organic-beard advocates is, in the case of beard care, actually a real advantage. The keyword is superfatting.
Aleppo soap is generally little to not superfatted in the conventional sense. In Aleppo soap, re-fatting therefore does not arise from the glycerin separated during saponification, but from the better and above all unaltered laurel oil. You can actually feel this when touching the soap block.
The Aleppo soaps are without any dyes, stabilizers or perfume. Therefore this soap resembles more a sun-dried brick than the colorful dyed washing bars you can buy in drugstores.
Aleppo soaps are therefore suitable for a plastic-free beard-
How does natural beard care with Aleppo soap work?
Aleppo soap cleans skin and hair by quickly and effectively removing dirt and fats. Better and more thoroughly than most shampoos. And now laurel oil comes into play. It is antibacterial and acts effectively against acne, eczema, dry skin and rash.
Therefore it is recommended to leave the Aleppo soap foam on beard and skin for up to three minutes before rinsing out. This allows the laurel oil to exert its full effect.
What do the different oil concentrations mean?
It’s simple: the percentages indicate the proportion of laurel oil in the soap. An 80/20 soap, for example, contains 80 percent olive oil and 20 percent laurel oil. It’s the same principle with 60/40 and 95/5. If you have skin irritations, feel free to try an Aleppo soap with a twenty-percent laurel-oil content.
Does Aleppo soap make the beard softer?
In general, soap will make your beard softer than almost any shampoo. The composition of Aleppo soap, however, makes the beard particularly soft. The claim that basically any natural soap would have the same effect is false, even if some hobby beard specialists occasionally assert it. It definitely depends on the composition. And with Aleppo soap it is unique for natural beard care.
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