Savon de Marseille: the other virtues of Olive oil I WIDE

Olives are the green gold of Marseille. Thanks to this precious fruit, the city gained international fame as early as the 17th century for the manufacture of its green soaps made with olive oil.

Nowadays only four traditional soap factories remain and the Fabres family is one of them. Their recipe hasn't changed since 1900. The green soap contains at least 72% olive oil. Only vegetable oils can be used, and the soap mixture has to be heated in open cauldrons just like it was done under the reign of Louis XIV.

Meet with Marie Bousquet-Fabre, the great-granddaughter of the soap factory's founder and learn everything there is to know about saponification.

Extract from the film: “World of colours - France in green”
Direction: ​​Carole Greco
Production: ZED & Voyage

[Shanti_priya]

Recently visited France and bought so much of this soap. Its wonderful!

[unicornsarereal]

I love savon de Marseille ❤️ I only buy from one of the four savonneries because there are a lot of fake Marseille soaps. Fake in the sense that they are mass manufactured somewhere else and have added ingredients or preservatives. Always check that your savon de Marseille is stamped 72% olive oil and has no additives and is made in… Marseille!
I respect all the hard work of these artisans. Thank you.

[signaturerush]

If anyone couldn’t find out, the specific brand of this soap company is called Marius Fabre. If you wanna buy there soap search that up.

[fionaward]

Thank you for this. I love making my own soap at home. Both hot and cold process. 😊

[Nina-]

Wow! This was incredible to watch! I have never seen such wonderful olive oil! It looks like laurel berry oil! 😳

[Asaysapoan]

Yes, I work in laurel soap. This is good.❤❤😊😊

[ascarius]

I use this soap everyday in the shower

[rosmalinamalina]

The olive 🌳 tree is a sacred tree. Love
Thousands of years ago, we were given medicine and food.🟡🧿

[signaturerush]

Just got a bar off eBay. Haven’t tried it in the shower yet but it seems to be great for laundry. I had to saw it in half because it was a big bar and the part I sawed easily became powder, I used it to wash my clothes. I also put a piece on a soap dish in my restroom to wash my hands.

[Sigridovski]

It is so good to wash the hair, rubbing a marseille soap on it. It might feel a bit strange at first, but what does it matter? It looks good and don't smell bad, and smells no perfumes which are toxic. But be aware of apple cider vinegar. It burns te hair follicles and the hair become dry, thin, soft and frizzy, doesn't grow in my neck any more, it ruined my hair. I am glad I found the marseille soap though.

[MrMostSugar]

The woman is too beautiful to be true.

[teamrocfan]

Wow it’s cool they got Christian Bale to voice over in this video

[kylegreen]

anyone else think of Eurotrash with these voiceovers

[lynnenuma]

how do you buy the real one on Amazon?

[MrKobeFuentes]

Basically aleppo soap but cheaper quality

[Sigridovski]

Knowledge that could be used in the rest of the world, should not be a closely guarded secret. What good is it to have the recepee but not le others do the same? The facory will anyway not dissapear. will not dissapear. Everyone need such natural soap, also for washing ones hair. Just rub the soap on the hair and it will never smell bad again, also when let alone for a week or even two.