Book "Le Savon de Marseille" by Patrick Boulanger

Marseille soap has undergone an astonishing evolution over the centuries. After obscure beginnings in the cauldrons of modest medieval workshops, it gave birth to the most powerful industry in France's leading port.

Marseille soap became an essential household product. However, by the end of the Second World War, its market was under attack from washing powders and synthetic detergents.

These days, we're rediscovering the virtues of Marseille soap. Its simple appearance used to conceal its qualities.

Patrick Boulanger has taken great pleasure in resurrecting the past, as well as the present, of this exceptional product.

The iconography helps reveal many forgotten aspects of its manufacture and marketing, old-fashioned visions that will delight many readers.

Marseille soap, that all-too-modest cube born on the shores of the Mediterranean, deserved a book of its own.

134 pages on the history of Marseille soap is ideal as a gift or for yourself.

Format: 17x17cm
134 pages