Salon de Provance

One of our favorite towns in Provance is Salon de Provance. Very french, the little city has everything you would ever need.
We arrived early and had time to look around town. Lunch and a stroll before visiting a soap factory we love coming back to.

Heres what they have to say about their soap:

In 1900, barely 22, Marius Fabre founded his soap company in Salon-de-Provence.

He started up in the garden shed, where he set up two cauldrons and a few moulds.

At that time, Salon-de-Provence was an extremely prosperous city, thanks to the commerce of oil, soap and coffee. The abundance of raw materials in Provence (olive oil in the Alpilles, soda and salt in the Camargue and oils (coco-nut and palm) coming in from the colonies via the port of Marseilles) had made possible the development of the soap-making industry. The arrival of the railway in 1873 greatly facilitated commerce.