“Surprisingly Good” Olive Oil Castile Soap

Our olive oil castile soap is made using pomace olive oil, which is basically the left-over olive oil after it’s been processed for food use. You know we hate waste, right? So this is perfect for us. Castile soap has been around for hundreds of years. It is literally made with two ingredients and a catalyst: olive oil, water and lye. The earliest evidence of soap making comes from Egypt from 2800BC. Aleppo became famous for soap made of olive oil and laurel oil. In the 12 th century, Muslim and Jewish artisans who were fleeing persecution brought their soap making techniques to the Mediterranean, including Spain and Italy. These artisans found that although there were plenty of olives, they couldn’t get hold of any laurel oil, so they made it exclusively out of olive oil. Aleppo soap is quite hard, and is green with a slight antiseptic smell. It’s a very nice soap. But the soap that was made in Castille, using just olive oil, resulted in such a pure, creamy white soap that it became superior to its contemporaries. The soap’s purity and high quality made it popular with royalty across Europe. A lot of homemade soaps are laden with colours and perfumes. These are lovely. You can’t help sniffing a bar of soap. But I found that even natural, homemade cosmetics could irritate my skin. Even something simple like lavender oil. So I decided to keep it pure and super simple. It took a while to perfect, but I’m very happy with the results. Anyone who tries it says it’s surprisingly goo Sold on Chimney Sheep® draught excluders and other sustainable solutions (https://chimneysheep.co.uk/products/surprisingly-good-olive-oil-castile-soap). The price shown is the retail price on that storefront on 2026-10-25, not a GreenB2B quote or a wholesale price.