Three simple ingredients - olive oil, water and lye - have been combined for centuries to make soap in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The city has become known for ...
Nablusi soap, made across the West Bank, has been added to UNESCO's list of intangible world heritage — Zain JAAFAR Initiated into the thousand-year-old practice of Nablus soap making by a distant ...
An ancient soap-making tradition in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has been added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. NPR visits one of the oldest soap factories in the city of Nablus.