We introduced the soap we developed from prickly pear

We presented Ambassador Faruk Kaymakcı with the soap developed through our research combining prickly pear with traditional olive oil and laurel soap-making techniques.

An illustrative cover showing prickly pear fruit, soap, an olive branch and laurel leaves, with the NATURELDER logo at the bottom

Our ongoing research and development work on prickly pear has produced a new product: soap. In this work, we combined prickly pear with traditional olive oil and laurel soap-making techniques. We announced the soap in our post of 13 March 2023.

On behalf of NATURELDER, we presented the soap to Ambassador Faruk Kaymakcı, Türkiye’s Permanent Representative to the European Union. We thank him for the opportunity to share our work on local products.

The soap is part of our continuing work on prickly pear following the Rural Development with Local Products Project. It adds another example to our efforts to explore different uses for this local plant.

You can learn about the project and explore its resources on our Rural Development with Local Products Project page.