About Savon Barbe Noire

The question I get asked most often is how I came to make soap, to be a soap maker. I can tell you that I have always aspired to make soaps, that soda and oil have made me dream forever. Whether I spent an infinite amount of time in the bathroom of an uncle or an aunt that these scents carried me into an incredible world... The beautiful story what. Seriously? No. But then really not. Already we will start again from the beginning or not too much either. I'm Manuel Girones or Manu and I'm one of those who never really knew what he was going to do in their lives, at least professional. So once the classes were over I decided to go around the world. To discover elsewhere. I traveled the planet, finally Europe, for about ten years... And I even found a pretty good temporary job in a big box in their finance department and then they kept me for 5 years. Finances... soaps... we agree, it's not too fitting, is it? At the end I was responsible for “financial risk analysis” for clients in France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. This experience showed me the shortcomings of multinationals, profitability at all costs. To continue like this forced me to betray my convictions, my ethics. I started looking for a reconversion. And one day I went, I don't know why, in a soap factory. The idea started to germinate. I liked it right away. There is...Read their story