For a better information, the Cassiopeia Boutique suggests you to discover through these lines:
- The history of the "Famous Marseille soap", its manufacturing, its benefits.
- what is a natural vegetable oil and its mode of manufacture.
- process of extraction of plants to obtain this invaluable essential oil.
THE HISTORY OF THE "FAMOUS MARSEILLE SOAP"
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It is in Mesopotamia, 2 500 years before JC, that we find the first tracks of the existence of the soap, there was then a soft soap consisted of fatty oil associated with vegetable ashes.
With the time, and thanks to the crusaders who brought it back in the West, this soap spread through the Mediterranean Basin, through Italy and Spain, to reach Marseille, the soap of which is the lineal heir.
It is in Gaul that we find the first recipes of soap and it is in the XIVth century when appears the first official Marseilles Soap maker, his name is Crescas Davin ( 1371 ).
From the XVth century, the home-made stage for the local needs is exceeded, and Marseille sees the first industrial soap factories appearing for production intended for Rhodes, Alexandria and Geneva.
The XVIth century sees the techniques perfecting notably thanks to specialist's hired in all the Mediterranean Sea, more qualified than the French workforce.
It is in the XVIIth century when the Marseille soap acquires the fame which it won't lose any more.
The soap is not only used any more as detergent or as a toilet item, but also as pharmaceutical ingredient. The famous indication " Extra Pure 72 % comes ".
Since the 1960s, the soap industry diversified its products with the appearance of liquid soaps and concentrated products.
Even if it got modernized with regard to the ancient processes in the ladle and in the cauldron, the manufacturing of our soaps, heir of about 400 years of history, remains still home-made and manual.
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MARSEILLE SOAP - MANUFACTURE
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Our soaps are 100 % vegetable and made on base of palm oil, copra and olive (without paraben and without animal testing).
They are enriched with shea butter or with a vegetable oil natural like argan oil, sweet almond oil or calendula oil, for a better skin hydration and more softness.
Every oil is a source of vitamins and possesses well defined virtues.
The color is obtained from mineral coloring and perfumes are totally natural (essential oil for the scent, and possibly flowers added (lavender, thyme, rosemary, rose petals).
Quality controls are regularly and frequently made by an independent laboratory which guarantees you the quality of our soaps.
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THE MARSEILLE SOAP VIRTUES
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The Marseille soap is very often recommended by the medical profession for the fragile and with trouble skins, as well as for the children toilet.
Hypoallergenic and bactericidal: it is recommended by the dermatologists in case of eczema.
Ideal for the dental care.
As a washing powder: it avoids allergies and irritations, especially for the sensitive skin of babies.
It is also great to wash all the delicate linen (wool, silk, baby cloth).
It is an healthy, effective, practical, economic, ecological product and 100% biodegradable,
It possesses moreover, this magnificent very specific smell of " clean ", which wakes memories up.
Associated with the virtues of natural vegetable oil and essential oil extracted from plants, it becomes more than a soap.
It is the real cosmetic in the incomparable scents, that will leave sweet, satiny and charmingly perfumed skin.
The extra:
It is necessary to know, that a bar of Marseille Soap, placed at the bottom of your bed will make you these unpleasant night-cramps forget which disrupt the nights of the persons which suffer from it.
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They answer the "Cosmebio" charter:
Recipe:
- no GMO(GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM).
- no chemical conservatives.
- no colouring agents.
- no perfumes of synthesis.
- no animal testing.
- A minimum of 95 % of natural or natural originated ingredients in the finished product.
- A minimum of 95 % of ingredients coming from the organic farming on the total of the plant ingredients.
- It is in the same spirit that the organic argan oil product range was created, from a selection of argan oil from Morocco in the respect of the fair trade.
For an efficiency and an optimal safety, our natural cosmetics contain no occlusive material (as the paraffin wax) and are formulated with a very big concentration of plant active principles.
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OUR VEGETABLE PRECIOUS OILS
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They are obtained from the extraction of the oil of seeds or kernels by pressure or by pummeling.
But first of all, the preparation of seeds or kernels plays a very important role in the quality of the oil. This stage is intended to facilitate the extraction of the oil. Seeds or kernels are sorted out first of all to eliminate those which are damaged. They then undergo a dust removal in order to eliminate every foreign body.
It's divided into 3 steps: the sieving, the brushing and the suction.
There are several processes of pressure which have all a home-made and natural connotation.
This physical process of grinding is made with a mechanical press with 2 screws. The first screw drives the seeds or kernels towards a drilled cylinder and the second allows the grinding.
This oil going through the cylinder is a first cold pressure oil.
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The essential oil is a ethereal liquid substance, nice-smelling and volatile produced by certain plants characterized by their fragrant and perfumed principles.
It can be extracted by two manners: by cold pressure, by steam distillation.
This second traditional method is very used to extract essential oil intended for the aromatherapy because if it is well led it gives a high quality essential oil having kept all of these active principles because of the reasonable heating.
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