Well attestedFrom the people of the place
Nabulsi soap
noun · first attested 19th century
A whole export industry built on three ingredients: olive oil, water and ash.
A hard, pale, unscented olive oil soap made in Nablus in the West Bank.
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Nabulsi soap
The soap is cooked from local olive oil, water and an alkali traditionally made from burnt desert plants, poured into a floor mold, cut by hand and stacked in towers to dry. Dozens of factories worked in the nineteenth century; only a handful survive.
Palestine
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