Aleppo Soap
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For those who have made or bought aleppo soap, does it have the slime of plain castile?
nframe
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I don't think so.
Thank you nframe 
! Wow, I love the light green color of your first batch of the soap! Yeah, my laurel berry oil is a more browny-green so my soaps look like your second batch. I also poured the soap batter into two individual molds when I made the Aleppo soap and these two came out really lovely, not crumbly at all.
! Wow, I love the light green color of your first batch of the soap! Yeah, my laurel berry oil is a more browny-green so my soaps look like your second batch. I also poured the soap batter into two individual molds when I made the Aleppo soap and these two came out really lovely, not crumbly at all.
No, it does not have the slime.
Wow, the color of that first soap is incredible!
I just got my laurel fruit oil in and will make some Aleppo soap soon. Your picture has me even more excited about it
I always feel like I have to warn people that it will NOT stay that colour....:smile:
The outside will age to brown/gold.
I'll stop now...
Relax. I didn't assume anything, and I added in at least two smileys. I never said you were ignorant - something you assumed I meant.... I was KIDDING....poking fun at MYSELF. :roll:
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LBussy
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So the only place I've seen the Laurel oil is that place in NY and that is PRICEY stuff. Are there any other sources?
I was watching the news and realized the bombed out buildings I was looking at were in Aleppo. It may be that once the supply chain runs out it's done (for real Aleppo soap anyway).
I was watching the news and realized the bombed out buildings I was looking at were in Aleppo. It may be that once the supply chain runs out it's done (for real Aleppo soap anyway).
From my research, only those two places sell laurel berry oil in bulk in the US/Canada. Yeah, it is one of the expensive oils...
. But then I realized that I sometime buy organic jojoba oil and pay about the same price and size as laurel berry oil in US (plus shipping charge). So I figured with the free shipping charge, it was worth it to buy it when I could. I really don't think I would purchase it again - at least not for a long time. Right now, I keep them in the freezer.My bet is that there is a trade embargo with Syria right now which makes real Aleppo soap pretty much impossible to get. I say this because the soap is readily available in Europe through several websites:
http://www.lorbeer-de.com/index.php?route=common/home
Also, on my laurel fruit oil it says "Product of Turkey" so hopefully it means the oil remains available for purchase.
http://www.lorbeer-de.com/index.php?route=common/home
Also, on my laurel fruit oil it says "Product of Turkey" so hopefully it means the oil remains available for purchase.
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Yup, the cost of war isn't just human....so much culture and art and architecture, too. And economy.
Nothing good about it.
Do you think the 5% difference in laurel bay oil is what caused the dramatic difference in color between your two recipes?
I've been trying to answer my own question regarding color. If you watch this video, note (at the 30 second mark) how rich and dark green the oil is: [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTADF_FDbkw[/ame]
I've never seen olive oil like that...it's like Army green.
That is an awesome video, btw. It's worth watching the entire thing.
Here is some more on color. What we need is oil from unripe olives.
Colour : The colour of olive oil varies from light to dark green or dark yellow or light. The colour is determined by the substance of dominant colour of the fruit at harvest. For an olive green, the fruit was picked early, when he has not had time to mature or half-ripe. The oil usually has a bitter taste. Olive oil can also have a vivid green colour if the leaves or twigs of olive trees have been added during grinding. A fruit not Colour: The colour of olive oil varies from light to dark green or dark yellow or light.
The colour is determined by the substance of dominant colour of the fruit at harvest. For an olive green, the fruit was picked early, when he has not had time to mature or half-ripe. The oil usually has a bitter taste. Olive oil can also have a vivid green colour if the leaves or twigs of olive trees have been added during grinding. An unripe or half-ripe fruit resulted of the apparition of chlorophyll blue-violet. Olive oil yellow means that the fruit has ripened before being harvested.
If the vivid yellow, this may be the effect of oxidation. When the colour is dark brown or black, then the oil comes from olives that fall from the tree branches. Such oil has a lighter taste, sweeter. The technique of crushing and oil extraction also plays an important role in determining the colour.
I've never seen olive oil like that...it's like Army green.
That is an awesome video, btw. It's worth watching the entire thing.
Here is some more on color. What we need is oil from unripe olives.
Colour : The colour of olive oil varies from light to dark green or dark yellow or light. The colour is determined by the substance of dominant colour of the fruit at harvest. For an olive green, the fruit was picked early, when he has not had time to mature or half-ripe. The oil usually has a bitter taste. Olive oil can also have a vivid green colour if the leaves or twigs of olive trees have been added during grinding. A fruit not Colour: The colour of olive oil varies from light to dark green or dark yellow or light.
The colour is determined by the substance of dominant colour of the fruit at harvest. For an olive green, the fruit was picked early, when he has not had time to mature or half-ripe. The oil usually has a bitter taste. Olive oil can also have a vivid green colour if the leaves or twigs of olive trees have been added during grinding. An unripe or half-ripe fruit resulted of the apparition of chlorophyll blue-violet. Olive oil yellow means that the fruit has ripened before being harvested.
If the vivid yellow, this may be the effect of oxidation. When the colour is dark brown or black, then the oil comes from olives that fall from the tree branches. Such oil has a lighter taste, sweeter. The technique of crushing and oil extraction also plays an important role in determining the colour.
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nframe
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No, I think that the difference in colour is due to the laurel bay oil. The first one I purchased was a very deep green whereas the second one was a more browny-green. I am not sure where the first one came from - I bought it from a chemist in Germany. The second one comes from Turkey.
If you watch further in the video, the laurel bay oil brownish/gold.
Someone in this thread says the mix up the subtitles in the video. That the first dark green is laurel. hm
http://www.soapmakingforum.com/showthread.php?t=37062
http://www.soapmakingforum.com/showthread.php?t=37062
Hm, I didn't get that..here is what was stated:
"The first oil is black, which is the color of pure laurel oil, and the second oil green, which is the actual color of olive oil."
My question now however, is if the laurel is black, and the olive is dark green..whats the lighter brown colored oil that was poured?
"The first oil is black, which is the color of pure laurel oil, and the second oil green, which is the actual color of olive oil."
My question now however, is if the laurel is black, and the olive is dark green..whats the lighter brown colored oil that was poured?
