A round Baraké olive oil soap, sea salt, blue grey, with the Baraké seal pressed into the top, on pale stone.

Origin No. 1, Lebanon

The Baraké Bar

Traditional olive oil soap. Kettle-cooked, hand-cut, aged. All natural.

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Details

What's in it, and what isn't.

Method: Kettle-cooked and aged, the way it has been made for a thousand years.
Ingredients: Olive oil, water, and a handful of natural ingredients. Nothing synthetic.
Scent: Unscented, or scented only with natural essential oils.
Color: The natural cream-green of olive soap. Any color comes from clays and plants only.
Packaging: Paper wrap and band. No plastic.
Use: Face, body, hands. One bar for everything.

Ingredients are listed in full on every wrap. The exact list is confirmed with our producer before the first batch ships.

Why it works

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

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.

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.