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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  • Venusta [any]
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    2 years ago
    CW Hostile. I'm sorry

    why does China trade with Israel and Saudi Arabia rn ? Why would that magically stop if they gained more hegemony ? sounds like you're the one being ahistorical

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      Chinese trade with Israel is microscopic and China engages in it because Israel is a major tech and pharma hub thru which American IP tech could be acquired semi-legally

      China has a $24 billion trade deficit with Saudi Arabia out of a 16 trillion dollar economy, also it's a major energy nexus, you know energy, that thing you need for rapid industrialization

      Either way your point is mute, those countries exist by the grace of the US, should China become a "hegemon" (which is not something China actually wants), the concept of Chinese trade with those countries is transformed overnight

      • Venusta [any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        google search

        China is also Israel's third largest trading partner and export market after the United States and the European Union with China being Israel's largest export market in East Asia.

        well that was a fucking lie

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]
          ·
          2 years ago

          I'm only commenting cause I don't want others to be misled by you, you're a troll, and you revealed your colors in another thread

          So I'll point out the obvious, 10 billion in trade is microscopic

          • Venusta [any]
            ·
            2 years ago
            CW Hostile.

            lmao I'm a troll, :cursed: okok

      • Venusta [any]
        ·
        2 years ago
        CW Hostile. I'm sorry. Also you didn't help the situation by putting ultras into your response like 5 times.

        You don't really care about this conversation other than justifying your own insecure and shallow beliefs, you wouldn't have turned to writing "ultras" like 5 times in your response

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]
          ·
          2 years ago

          I literally answered in good faith but ok get butthurt because you don't anything about global macro-economics

          Also stop obsessing over stupid internet posting labels, yes internet ultras are universally dumb and idealistic, your conception of "sectarianism" doesn't exist in the real world

          • Venusta [any]
            ·
            2 years ago
            CW Hostile. I'm sorry

            I literally answered in good faith

            yes internet ultras are universally dumb and idealistic, your conception of “sectarianism” doesn’t exist in the real world

            lmao