If we are lucky, we find the most treasured import: the saboun (soap), wrapped in waxy white paper stamped with the fading red camel, blue barcode, the bright Arabic script that stretches across ...

Katherine also recommends Blueland, which offers "forever bottles" and various cleaning tablets: "This is a nice foaming hand soap with a refill tablet that's wrapped in paper." You can also buy ...

Men sitting on the ground, surrounded by bars of soap, wrap each bar by hand in the company's signature white paper packaging stamped with blue Arabic lettering and two red keys, atop small wooden ...