At A La Maison de Provence, our traditional recipe dates back to 1828 when Marseille soap masters asserted their craftsmanship of the French Milled process; a slow cooking purifying process which transforms vegetable oils into glycerin rich, smooth, lathering soap making it softer to the skin. In 2011, founder François Bogrand created A La Maison de Provence in the United States to revive the traditional French Milled Marseille recipe and offer the Finest Quality to prime American retailers and discerning American consumers. Today, A La Maison de Provence is one of the fastest growing body-care lines in North America.

In France, soap has been made by artisans since Antiquity. Initially created from basic ingredients such as ash and animal fats, it is in the region of Marseille, at the crossroad of trade of vegetable ingredients such as olive oil, argan oil and Mediterranean salts, where the Marseille soap, commonly known as French Milled, was born. Medieval soap makers cutting the Marseille soap by hand.   In 1370, in the throes of the Middle Ages, Crescas Davin became the first and official Marseille soap master to be registered using the ancient artisan process. By the 17th century, the Thirty Years War had caused major misery and shortages in soap for many European countries, such as Spain. Marseille had to pick...