Marseille's block soap is a hundreds of years old tradition in southern France and it works perfect in the kitchen (but you can also use it for hand and body washing).

Savon de Marseille's pure vegetable oil soap is naturally hypo-allergenic, perfume and additive free. The company has carved out a niche market selling a kilo block of soap for as much as 15 dollars.

Alain Jocard / AFP | This file photo taken on November 06, 2015 shows Savons de Marseille (Marseille soap) at the stand of the Union of Marseille soap producers on November 6, 2015, in Paris.

In a lather over Marseille soap Relations between rivals are so bad now that the French state is having to arbitrate the vexed question of the soap’s make-up Last updated: September 15, 2018 | 20:58 ...

In Marseille, the Savonnerie du Midi is the showcase of an ancestral savoir-faire. It has been devising the famous soaps for more than 120 years now, master soap makers passing down their productio ...

But a dispute over the “official” recipe for the region’s famed traditional soap, “savon de Marseille”, has producers in a froth. With cheap Chinese and Turkish soaps flooding the market ...