The thousand-year-old practice of Nablus soap making has been newly designated by UNESCO as intangible world heritage.

UNESCO has recognised the thousand-year-old traditional practice of Nablus soap-making as an Intangible Cultural Heritage ...

Then the soap is sliced in this machine, revealing its designs. Nablus Soap Company is one of the last factories making olive-oil soap in the West Bank. It follows a centuries-old Palestinian ...

Initiated into the thousand-year-old practice of Nablus soap making by a distant relative, Umm al-Abed is now passing on the ...

One poured olive oil from a container ... stages of production and children helping to cut and pack it. In Nablus, the Tuqan soap factory, established in 1872, continues to churn out bars.