and tallow — using an ancient technique called “levata da lisciva” to ensure that the soap is free from impurities. To make the “finest” soap in the world, it is then matured for two ...

Hygiene is considered to be something of a modern preoccupation, but there is evidence that soap was invented by ancient civilisations nearly 5,000 years ago. Archaeologists unearthed traces of it in ...