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Black Soap – A short Story
By SFQ on November 15, 2020 in Skin Care
African black soap, or black soap (also known by various local names such as sabulun salo, ose dudu and ncha nkota), is a kind of soap originating in West Africa. It is made from the ash of locally harvested African plants and dried peels, which gives the soap its characteristic dark colour.Black soap has become a popular toiletry product in North America due to its benefits on oily and acne-prone skin.In West Africa, black soap is often made using traditional recipes and is often exported through fair trade groups.
A variety of black soap known as ose-dudu originated with the Yoruba people of Nigeria. A combination of ose-dudu with leaves of the tropical camwood tree (Pterocarpus osun). Another variety of black soap known as ncha nkọta which roughly translates to “soap you can scoop” because of its soft texture originated with the Igbo people of Nigeria.
Black soap has been found to have some antimicrobial properties against skin microbiota such as Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Candida albicans.
