Castile soap is an olive oil based hard soap made in a style similar to that originating in the Castile region of Spain. The origins of Castile soap go back to the Levant, where Aleppo soap-makers have made hard soaps based on olive and laurel oil for millennia. Early soap-makers in the Mediterranean area did not have easy access to laurel oil and therefore dropped it from their formulations, thereby creating an olive-oil soap now known as Castile soap.
In the 17th century, the soap caused controversy in England, since it supplanted the unnamed local soap after the Spanish Catholic manufacturers purchased the monopoly on the soap from the cash-strapped Carolinian government. Its ties to Catholicism caused a public-relations campaign to be established, featuring washerwomen showing how much more effective local soaps were than Castile soap. The sale of a monopoly in Protestant England to a Catholic company caused a great uproar, ending with the Castile soap company eventually being stripped of the monopoly.
Nabulsi soap is a type of castile soap produced only in Nablus in the West Bank, Palestine. Its chief ingredients are virgin olive oil (the main agricultural product of the region), water, and an alkaline sodium compound. The finished product is ivory-colored and has almost no scent. Traditionally made by women for household use, it had become a significant industry for Nablus by the 14th century. In 1907 the city's 30 Nabulsi soap factories were supplying half the soap in Palestine. Project Hope and other local non-governmental organizations market the soap in the West to raise funds for their other community projects.
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i didn't know but probably should've figured people made soap outta olive oil, very cool!
:bean-think: i just extrapolated from those Cool History Facts that said like "Romans didnt use soap they used olive oil"
im really impressed that i said some dumb provocative shti about white people and spicy food and people didn't actually get into arguments in the comments. this is a great website
I do enjoy how this is the one place on the internet you can call white people crackers without making users apoplectic
the best part is, you know it makes lurkers mad, but if they fall for it and respond they get BTFO
We've had a few wreckers lose their shit over it and it was hilarious Lol
They get banned very quickly so its easy to miss
lmao some white people just cannot handle what it feels like to not be white for like one second in a zero-stakes situation
depending on my mood it can kind of throw me off but I don't really care. it's an important part of community building imo
You can also freely use that word without the threat of ban.
Cracker.
We had the spicy food struggle sesh unironically a few months ago so it’s safe for at least another few lol
the only thing whiter than not eating spicy food is pepper spraying your mouth to prove how not white you are
There was some brief tension over pineapple but it appears to have resolved itself
It’s so wild to see people say that George W Bush was a less awful president than Trump. Like holy shit is your brain baby smooth? Do you have a memory shorter than a goldfish?
That's so dope. Imagine if it was a firefly and some armadillos!
Reactionaries playing CK2 : "I will make my white ancestors proud by expelling the Musselman from Spain
and/or being a viking or restoring the Roman Empire depending on brain worms.:gun-shapiro:Me playing CK2: "Me and my courtier built a public garden and became friends so now I am giving him an honorary position" :bottom-speak:
Never posting youtube drama on this site again. Worst mistake of my life.
i hate patsocs so much, now they decided to attack juche and the DPRK because they cant accept the concept of cultural imperialism
Lmao I’m honestly surprised patsocs don’t love dprk bc “homogenous society” (read:ethno state) is only way to socialism or something
they only became anti-juche because they disagreed an indigenous communist who studies juche, they are also being racist
Ah I assume it’s one of these situations:
sweating between buttons <ethnostate good> or <only white people good>
Just like normal reactionaries lol
I choose my opinions on the spur of the moment based on what will own the libs or whoever I'm talking to the most and then I instantly forget my opinions
"Actually South Korea's government is democratically controlled by the people (aka the proletariat) so actually they are a dictatorship of the proletariat and China the Bourgeoise" :so-true:
and actual argument I am having with someone on twitter calling themselves a marxist of all things :internet-delenda-est:
An entire politico article about how "based" is a fascist term. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/12/blake-masters-king-of-the-trolls-00051318
There's some good stuff in there too, in terms of calling out fascism as fascism. But I feel like they could have checked with literally anybody under 30 before going to print with that premise.
