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« For over a hundred years,
we have tasted our soap in the cauldrons to check on perfect fabrication. If the paste stings
the tongue it means the soap needs another rinse in pure water.
Who today still has such know-how ?»
The fabrication of Marseilles soap was born and developped through practice during centuries,
based on observation and human sensitivity. As they mastered this bubbling,
steaming paste, soap makers were known as «Fire Masters»,
watching over a fabrication close to alchemy.
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Henri Fabre tasting soap at the end of cooking
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In 1688, Louis XIV laid down by means of an
Edict by (the king's minister) Colbert,
the rules which institutionalised Marseilles soap.
But it was not until the early 19th century that the saponification process
was codified and later analysed in laboratories.
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The alchemy of the past and the technology of today : a unique recipe !
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Though the traditional production
of Marseilles soap in cauldrons is less and less followed, the Marius Fabre soap company in Salon-de-Provence has,
since 1900, kept this unique know-how alive by handing it down from generation to generation.
At the Marius Fabre company, we still use the traditional method of fabrication,
supported by chemical analysis of the paste at the end of the process,
and we take the time necessary to produce «real» Marseilles soap as it should be done.
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