BARAKÉ
Origin No. 1, Lebanon

You have a routine for your face.

Serum. Moisturizer. SPF. You read ingredient lists. You know your skin type.

Then you wash the other 90% of you with detergent.

A round Baraké olive oil soap, sea salt, blue grey, with the Baraké seal pressed into the top, on pale stone.
What they don't put on the label

Here's the part they don't put on the label.

That $4 "soap" bar? It isn't soap. It's a synthetic detergent bar: lab-made sulfates, artificial fragrance, dyes and preservatives, pressed into a bar shape with a beach on the wrapper. Twenty ingredients, and you can't pronounce fifteen of them. That tight, itchy feeling after a shower? That's not clean. That's stripped.

Real soap, made properly, creates its own natural moisturizer, glycerin, right in the bar. Industrial makers separate it out and sell it back to you in a $14 bottle of lotion. They took the natural part out, created your dry skin, and sold you the synthetic cure.

The bar

Ours is what soap was before the factory got to it.

Olive oil. Water. A few things you'd find in a kitchen, not a lab. Kettle-cooked for days the way it's been done for a thousand years in the mountains and valleys of Lebanon, hand-cut, and aged for months like something worth waiting for. The natural glycerin stays in. The extra olive oil stays in, so oleic acid and vitamin E land on your skin instead of washing off it.

Five ingredients. All of them from a tree, a spring, or the earth. No sulfates, no synthetic fragrance, no dyes, no preservatives. Nothing your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize. And when the bar is gone, it's gone. It biodegrades. There isn't even a plastic bottle to throw away.

A round Baraké olive oil soap, lavender, flecked with dried buds, with the Baraké seal pressed into the top, on pale stone.
One bar

One bar. Face, body, everything. 100% natural, because it always was.

Made by families who never stopped making it right. We just finally brought it to you.

The origins

A house of olive soap traditions. Lebanon is chapter one.

Origin No. 1
Lebanon

The mountains and valleys of Lebanon, where our first bar is made.

Coming
Palestine

The Nabulsi tradition.

Coming
France

The true olive cube of Marseille.

Coming
Italy

Saponi from the olive south.

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Syria

Aleppo, olive and laurel.

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بركة

Your skin's been waiting a thousand years.