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Hey everybody its Phoebe again with Space City Soaps
And today I’m going to be making Aleppo Soap
Now Aleppo Soap has been made for thousands upon thousands of years
It is a very au natural soap
Its obviously not made with fragrance oils or colorants
But it is made with olive oil, sodium hydroxide, water, and
The star ingredient, laurel berry oil
Laurel berry oil is very rich and thick and dark and it smells very woodsy
And almost, it has almost this medicinal smell to it
It smells, it smells really good
And, um, so I’m going to be making soap with that
And since this soap has been made for so long
I thought it was really cool
I looked up a couple of facts about the history of Aleppo Soap
And one of the cool things is that
It is rumored that Cleopatra of Egypt, who we all know,
And Queen Zenobia of Syria, both used this soap
So I thought that was really cool
Now I’m not making it in the traditional sense how they make it in Aleppo
But I will link a video down below in the description box
That shows you how they do make it in Aleppo
And its really really interesting, I really highly suggest that you check it out
And so I have my oils heating, I have my lye water ready
And so, yeah, lets get down to it, lets make Aleppo Soap
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Now I’m just going to take this one away
Oh, it feels so nice inside
And look how creamy and smooth that is in there
And, ok, so now here
Here it is one slice, one I guess half of the loaf
And my goal is to make them cubes
And I’ve done a lot of measurements, but we’ll just see what happens
So right now I’m just cutting these and then I’m going to cut these in half
And then clean them up
So, see I just have this
And then I’m going to cut them in half, or make them into cubes
And then clean up the sides a little bit
Yep, and them I’m going to stamp them
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Hey everybody welcome back, ok now I’m going to show you
I’m going to put a stamp
Here’s our soap stamp
I’m going to put a stamp in, on every cube of Aleppo soap
And I’ve already tried it
And there we go
It looks pretty cool, huh?
I like it
So ok here we go
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Hey everybody, hey there
So, the Aleppo soaps turned out great
As you saw in the cutting I made them
Into these cubes and then I stamped them
And they stamped amazingly
Now if you
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Now if you look down in the description box and you
Watch the video of traditional Aleppo soap making
You will see that they, traditionally, in Aleppo
Once the soap is made and stamped
They set them out to cure in these giant massive pyramids
Its amazing, um
So I thought it would be funny and fun
To sort of stack them up in a pyramid for you guys to see at the end
There is forty of them
And they have quite a long curing time
Its around four to five months
So its July now so these will be available to purchase
Around October November time
Um, but I wanted to tell you that you can pre order
If you would like to pre-order an Aleppo soap
Or multiple Aleppo soaps
Just message me, email me, at spacecitysoaps@gmail.com
You can contact me on the website spacecitysoaps.com, there is a contact form
So you can also do that
So just get in touch with me and we will definitely
Set aside some Aleppo soaps for you if you pre order
Um, but, if you don’t want to pre order
These will be going up on the website sometime in October or November
Um, thank you so much for watching
I’m really pleased with how these came out
Its really cool to be creating soap that has been created for thousands of years
And remember to like, comment, subscribe
And thanks for watching
Bye
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