For a little while, before people had hardened to stories of Syrian refugees, Jihan and the Ghar Collective were making $3,000 a month, selling soap. It was enough to help support 50 families in ...

Artisans have been using the same methods from 3,000 years to make the famous Aleppo soap - Copyright AFP/File - Artisans have been using the same methods from 3,000 ...

There were 50 women in the sewing cooperative in Damascus, crocheting and sewing handmade bags for Aleppo soap, to support their families during the civil war. Now there are 49. Wafaa, a mother of ...

SANTENY, France (Reuters) - A Syrian soapmaker who fled Aleppo after the factory he worked in was bombed has set up shop in a Paris suburb, reviving a tradition he says dates back millennia. Hassan ...

ALEPPO, Syria — In this city's historic center, 63-year-old soap manufacturer Safwan Zenabili is back in business. The olive soap Aleppo is famous for was stacked high at his 400-year-old factory ...

The UN's cultural organisation added Aleppo's famous soap to its intangible cultural heritage list Tuesday with Syria's second city again wracked by war. Artisans have brewed olive and laurel oil in ...