In\u00a0Marseille, they\u2019ve been making hard soap for 600 years. It\u2019s fair to say no place is more obsessed with crafting perfect bars than France\u2019s \u2018second city\u2019 on the Med. With\u00a0eco-conscious consumers swapping plastic bottles for blocks of soap, Marseille\u2019s love affair with suds has never been more on-trend.<\/p>\n
For those interesting in its squeaky clean history, The Marseille Soap Museum chronicles the history of soap in Provence going back to the Middle Ages. Visitors are invited to slip into the shoes of an artisan soap-maker, learning about the manufacturing process, the tools of the trade and early advertising campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Travel to France\u2019s Proven\u00e7al port city to find out why its soap is cleaning up <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[421,869,946],"class_list":["post-8869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quirky-museums","tag-souvenir-shopping","tag-tours","destinations-france","destinations-marseille","subcategories-museums","subcategories-shopping","subcategories-sightseeing","inspirations-arts-culture","inspirations-city"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n