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

    I know it’s in a struggle session and it’s probably a slog to read the whole thing but someone insinuating they would poke me with their erection should be a fairly obvious ban, no? It’s been 4 hours, If no mods are up that’s fair, but like come on.

    • Venusta [any]
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      2 years ago

      idc if you have 2700 comments 2yr account, posting about pushing your penis into someone is inexcusable

        • Venusta [any]
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          2 years ago

          He literally said I’ll hug you and that’s not a screwdriver in my pocket, is that a haha funny joke to you

            • Venusta [any]
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              2 years ago
              CW hostile, but not sorry

              fuck you asshole, literally

              ok let’s hug and for your information that’s a screwdriver in my pocket

                • Venusta [any]
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                  2 years ago
                  CW hostile, but not sorry

                  catch a ban and we’re all good :stalin-heart: completely normal thing to minimize a completely unexusible comment like that

      • Venusta [any]
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        2 years ago
        CW hostile, not sure what to think of this one, sorry

        he/him with the bold pro rape culture take, I’m just bitter clearly, it’s completely normal to make an SA joke on a communist website

          • Venusta [any]
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            2 years ago

            If someone made that said that to someone irl how would you react, do you think it’s not a big deal to tell someone you’re going to touch them with your penis, no matter how many layers of irony

            You’re right somehow I’m bitter that someone said that to me, they finally took down the comment, but I would still like an apology from them directly or a ban, gloves are clearly on for 2yr old user

              • Venusta [any]
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                2 years ago

                I didn’t even add the detail that I had given them an apology for any bad feelings in the earlier comments and the over line comment was the response to the apology, I was trying to bring things down and this is what they said, if they don’t apologize they should be banned, there’s no room to have people talk like that and also consider this a safe space for people

                  • Venusta [any]
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                    2 years ago
                    CW hostile, but not sorry

                    weirder than just having someone who said that not apologize about it at all ? and just continue posting

                    it’s really easy to not invoke SA when you have a disagreement with someone, virtually every user does it all the time

      • Venusta [any]
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        2 years ago

        You can check the mod log