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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  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    comrade i have nothing to do with this argument, i barely even know what you're talking about

    • Venusta [any]
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      2 years ago

      It’s sectarian, I don’t go and put bayarea415 or Daniel Dumbrill videos in the dunk tunk bc I don’t like/agree with them, I respect other people being able to have their own opinions, not like let’s shit on this take that other people may well think is reasonable

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        So I'm out of the loop, but are you pro or anti the argument advanced in the video

        Cause I'm pro-Waters and fuck any radlib, optic-baiting, red scaremongering post-berniecrat loser who thinks anything Waters said was remotely out of line

        Goddamm first breath of fresh air in the mainstream media in over six months and first world motherfuckers out there talking about "EVeRYoNE LoSES" nah son fuck that spinless disingenuous shit

        • Venusta [any]
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          2 years ago

          fuck any radlib, optic-baiting, red scaremongering post-berniecrat loser who thinks anything Waters said was remotely out of line

          this is the reason there was a struggle session

          • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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            2 years ago

            Look if ya don't want your friend in the dunk tank, tell em to stop making shitty videos

            • Venusta [any]
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              2 years ago
              CW hostile, I'm sorry

              You are hostile and sectarian

              • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                2 years ago

                No I'm sick of bullshit pro-estalblishment geopolitical takes getting ANY traction on what passes for a sorry ass "left" in the west

                Don't care if the dipshit labels himself an ml or an anarcho, he's still an optic obessed liberal cringing at someone who has actual pro-leftist nerve and gall

                • Venusta [any]
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                  2 years ago

                  did you watch the video from start to finish yes or no ?

                  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                    2 years ago

                    First five fuckin minutes the dumbass whines about Water callin Biden a war criminal over Ukraine, cause "he's only been president for a couple years, it's not Bidens fault Russia invaded Ukraine" as if Biden wasn't Obama's vice president during Euromaiden, as if Biden's bank account isn't neck deep in Ukrainian machine politics, as if Biden isn't one of, if not the most hawkish Democrats over Russia and damn near every other US foreign policy direction in the last thirty years...

                    But no, because Waters doesn't qualify his take thru inane twitch debate bro antics, he's somehow "just as stupid as the liberal he's talkin to"

                    Bro how are you a fan of this dipshit, just his overall presentation is obnoxious and vaush-like, fuckin post-hispter berniecrart Brooklyn street Nick Mullen wannabe ass motherfucker yuck