Ghār has made Aleppo laurel soap the slow way since 1953. Olive oil and laurel berry oil, cold pressed, hand cut, and cured for months in our old-city workshop.
Real Aleppo soap is olive oil and laurel berry oil, cooked in a copper pot, poured by hand, and cut into cubes. No palm oil, no fragrance, no dye. The more laurel a bar carries, the rarer and more prized it is.
We stamp each cube with our seal, then leave it to cure for months until the outside turns the colour of clay and the inside stays a deep laurel green.
16%
Everyday laurel
A soft daily bar for face, hands, and body.
30%
Enriched laurel
More laurel, a richer lather and deeper scent.
40%
Aged and premium
The most laurel, cured the longest, the most prized.
A family workshop since 1953, in the old city of Aleppo. Every bar is cured up to 9 months, then packed by hand and shipped to 40 countries.
The collection
Bars worth the wait
Cold-process bars and sets, cured slow and made to last in the dish.
Everyday
Classic Laurel Bar
Everyday olive and laurel, a gentle daily clean.
$14
Aged
Aged Laurel Bar
Forty percent laurel, cured nine months.
$26
Everyday
Olive & Bay Everyday Bar
The mildest bar, plant simple.
$12
Everyday
Rose & Laurel Bar
Laurel softened with Damascus rose.
$16
Everyday
Black Seed (Habba Sawda) Bar
Laurel with black seed oil.
$16
Everyday
Laurel Shampoo Bar
A laurel bar made for hair.
$18
Gift set
The Aleppo Gift Box
Four bars in a stamped box.
$58
Gift · Aged
The Cure Collection
Three aged bars for the patient.
$72
Made slow, in the old city.
Ghār began in 1953 as a family workshop in the old city of Aleppo, three generations cooking the same two oils in the same copper pots.
We have never been in a hurry. The soap is cooked, poured, cut, stamped, and stacked by hand, then left to cure for months while the air does the last of the work. It is the slowest way to make soap, and the only way we know.
A bar should take longer to make than it does to use. That is the whole idea.
Gift sets, boxed and sealed
Our bars wrapped in paper and packed in a stamped box, ready to travel.
Set of 4
The Aleppo Gift Box
The Classic, the Aged, the Rose, and the Black Seed, four bars to meet the whole range, wrapped in paper and a stamped box.
$58
Set of 3, aged
The Cure Collection
Three high-laurel bars at the peak of their cure, our most generous gift, for those who already love aged Aleppo soap.
$72
From Aleppo to your door.
We pack every order by hand and ship worldwide. Our soap travels well, it only gets harder and milder with time.
Worldwide shipping to 40 countries
Plastic-free paper and card packaging
Cured and ready, no refrigeration needed
Orders packed within two working days
Visit the workshop
Al-Jdayde quarter, Old City Aleppo, Syria
+963 21 333 1953 hello@ghar-demo.com
Hear when a cure is ready
A few notes a year, when a new batch finishes curing or a season set goes out. No noise.
A note from Ghār
This is a demonstration of the Ghār store, built by Wojoodi. The brand is fictional and no order is placed. On a live site, this is where your order would be processed.
