{"product_id":"donkey-milk-soap-rare-traditional-recipe-antioch-collection","title":"Donkey Milk Soap – Rare Traditional Recipe, Antioch Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne animal, one oil, one bar. The Avlia Donkey Milk Soap is made from pure olive oil saponified with fresh donkey milk in place of water — no fragrance, no colorant, nothing else added. Hand-cut into a pale, milk-white block in southern Türkiye, using the same traditional method as the rest of the Antioch range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy donkey milk\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nDonkey milk has always been the rarer of the two milk soaps in Anatolian tradition. A dairy goat can be milked for several liters a day; a donkey yields only a small fraction of that, which has historically made donkey milk soap a smaller-batch, more prized version of the same household practice rather than an everyday staple. Saponified in place of water rather than added afterward, the milk's natural fats and proteins soften the lather and give the bar a gentle, creamy character quite different from a plain olive oil soap. This is not a fragranced cosmetic bar with a trace of milk listed among a dozen ingredients — it is olive oil and donkey milk, saponified together, with only the lye needed to make soap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA traditional anatolian bar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nAlongside the laurel, wild pistachio and hammam soaps in the Antioch range, milk soaps represent an older, more domestic thread of the same regional tradition — soap made from whatever a household had close at hand. Donkeys were kept as working animals rather than dairy stock, so their milk was always the scarcer of the two, gathered in small quantities and worked into soap as an occasional rather than routine batch. This bar continues that practical, limited-yield lineage, made by soap masters in southern Türkiye using the same kettle-and-hand-cut method as the rest of the collection. It carries no laurel oil and no stamp; its identity comes entirely from the two ingredients in its name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe color is the milk\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe bar's pale, milk-white color comes directly from the donkey milk itself, not a whitening agent or any added pigment. Natural milk soaps vary slightly in tone from batch to batch depending on the milk's fat content and the day's saponification, so gentle variation between bars is expected and is the mark of an honest, unblended formula rather than an inconsistency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow to use\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nLather directly on wet skin and rinse thoroughly with warm water. Suitable for daily use on face and body, for all skin types. The lather is notably soft and creamy compared with a plain olive oil bar, a characteristic of the milk itself rather than any added conditioning agent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nKeep the bar on a dry, draining soap dish between uses rather than sitting in standing water. Kept dry, a hand-cut bar this size lasts significantly longer than a comparable bottle of liquid soap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNatural variation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nEach block is hand-cut, so small differences in shape, surface texture and shade between bars are entirely normal — the signature of a real, small-batch soap made with a genuine, limited-yield dairy ingredient, rather than a standardized industrial formula.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nCollection: Antioch · SKU: TNS21 · Net weight: 135 g · INCI: Olea Europaea Fruit Oil, Equus Asinus Milk, Sodium Hydroxide · palm oil free · sulfate free · no synthetic fragrance · plastic-free packaging · handmade in Türkiye.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Avlia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50212934058241,"sku":"TNS21","price":23.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/0351\/3601\/files\/Avlia_Donkey_Milk_Soap_block_on_raw_wood_with_a_small_ceramic_milk_pitcher_soft_morning_light.jpg?v=1787345574","url":"https:\/\/avliahome.com\/products\/donkey-milk-soap-rare-traditional-recipe-antioch-collection","provider":"Avlia Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}