Gingerbread soaps: a Christmas bliss

Looking for ideas for a Christmas gift? What about Alchimia gingerbread soaps?

 

There’s nothing more Christmassy than gingerbread. You can smell this sweet and spicy fragrance everywhere during the winter holidays: in biscuits, room scents, and Christmas soaps. Are you ready to indulge in its warm and inviting embrace?

 

Gingerbread: the quintessential Christmas scent

Gingerbread is made with a few simple ingredients: sugar and honey (or molasses) mixed with ginger and cinnamon. Some versions include cloves and cardamom too. Gingerbread comes from the Latin word zingiber (ginger). In some parts of Italy, it’s also called panpepato (peppered bread), which is also a typical sweet in Lazio. Its origin is lost in time. We know that ginger was a spice imported in Europe from China and India during the Roman times. Gingerbread was invented or introduced in the Western world in 1000 A.D. by Gregorio Nicopoli, an Armenian bishop. The first recipe was found in France, and from there, it became popular in Northern Europe, particularly in England, Germany, and Sweden.

Gingerbread houses, gingerbread men, and gingerbread biscuits are typical of the Christmas season in all latitudes. Finnish piparkakku, Swedish pepparkakor, and German and Austrian Lebkuchen are different variants of the same recipe. Yet, in the collective imagination, gingerbread achieved iconic status thanks to the Grimm brothers, who featured a gingerbread house in the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale.

 

Gingerbread soaps: a sweet Christmas gift

Gingerbread biscuits are more famous for their fragrance than their taste. That’s why they are often used to decorate the Christmas tree. The sweetly spicy and aromatic gingerbread scent fills the room, evoking unique olfactory sensations and creating a warm, intimate ambience that instantly captures the essence of Christmas and festive moments. Gingerbread scent is associated with the year’s coldest months, like cinnamon. Besides its sweetness, it has other properties and benefits resulting from its main ingredients. For example, ginger has digestive, aphrodisiac and eupeptic effects, honey is antibacterial and decongestant, and cinnamon has antioxidant properties.

The combination of gingerbread essence and its properties make this ingredient the perfect fragrance for sweet, delicate Christmas soaps. Every Christmas, Alchimia Soap has a special range of cosmetic products, including gingerbread soaps. Gifting high-quality, Italian-made body products is a wonderful Christmas idea. For those who opt for gingerbread soaps, there are two enticing options:

• the Christmas box, including gingerbread shower gel and body lotion: discover the gift packaging;
• the Christmas gingerbread soap box set, including 3 gingerbread soap bars packaged in an elegant Christmassy box: discover the product.